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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 





A WESTERN VALLEY THAT CAN BE RECLAIMED BY IRRIGATION. 



VALLEYS IN THE WEST. 



MANY SUCH 



and heed their warning ; once fertile and 

 fruitful, now arid, uninhabitable wastes, 

 they stand as a warning' that we should 

 heed. Will we do so, or will we go on 

 wasting millions while we watch our forest 

 areas graduully destroyed ?" 



Mr. Maxwell made a strong plea for 

 the appropriation of adequate money to es- 

 tablish a thoroughly competent patrol for 

 the protection of the forests against fires. 



Concluding his remarks, he said : " I 

 was asked to speak of irrigation and the 

 forest. I have done so, although I have 

 not mentioned the word ' irrigation.' The 

 forests are the source of all irrigation. 

 We cannot irrigate without water. We 

 cannot have water without forests. If we 

 do not preserve them, we will have no ir- 

 rigation." . 



Foresters A Civil Service examination 



for the was held at Washington, 



Philippines. I). C, on September 9th 

 to select men for the forest 

 service in the Philippines. The results 



just made public show that Mr. K. G. 

 Bryant, Mr. E. H. Hareford, Mr. William 

 Klemme, Mr. W. W. Clarke, and Mr. 

 Hagger passed the best examination ami 

 will accordingly be assigned to places in 

 the personnel of the Forestry Bureau at 

 Manila. 



In addition to the above named men. 

 Mr. S. T. Neelv, who some years 

 conducted a series of timber testing exper- 

 iments for the Division of Forestry, has 

 been employed to take charge of a timber 

 testing laboratory to he established at Ma- 

 nila in connection with the Forestl") 

 Bureau. Mr. E. M. Griffith, at present 

 Field Assistant in the I . S. Bureau 

 Forestry, has also accepted a position in the 

 Philippine service. 



The examination required thai all candi- 

 dates should he graduates of foresl s< ho< 

 Bryant, Clarke, and Klemme are graduates 

 ,,! the New York State Colleg 

 estryal Cornell; Hareford comes from the 

 Biltmore Forest School, while Neely and 

 Griffith were already in the classified cud 



