1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



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is intended to show ' ' the intimate con- 

 nection between the melting snow banks 

 of the mountains and the agricultural 

 prosperity of Colorado. ' ' The influence 

 of forests on the melting of snows and 

 the consequent floods or decrease of flow 

 in the streams is carefully traced. A 

 series of eighteen half-tone plates make 

 the bulletin especially attractive. The 

 accompanying plates from this bulletin 

 are reproduced here through the cour- 

 tesy of Professor Carpenter. 



Sale of Under the proposed New- 



Public Lands, lands national irrigation 

 bill the reclamation fund 

 is to consist of such money as is re- 

 ceived from the sale of public lands in 

 the arid states, minus the expenses of 

 administration and survey incurred by 

 the land office. 



These states and the net amount 

 credited to each last year are as follows : 



Arizona l3i,755 



California 120, 183 



Colorado 172,548 



Idaho 126,323 



Kansas 7,568 



Montana 377,222 



Nebraska 72,116 



Nevada 7.381 



New Mexico 38, 160 



North Dakota 314,662 



Oklahoma 611,773 



Orei^on 284,307 



South Dakota 149,792 



Utah 67,505 



Washington 181,818 



Wyoming 165,957 



Total 12,729,070 



This means in plain figures that under 

 the Newlands bill the government would 

 have had last year nearly $3,000,000 to 

 spend for irrigation works. It means 

 that those advocating state control 

 would allow Oklahoma $611 ,000, where 

 irrigation is not much needed, and 

 Nevada, where it is essential to further 

 development, would only get $7,300, or 

 not enough to pay for the surveys. 



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To Prospective A recent publication of 

 Forest Students, the Bureau of Forestry 

 is circular No. 23, en- 

 titled ' ' Suggestions to Prospective For- 



est Students." This circular was pre- 

 pared with a view of furnishing to men 

 who are thinking of taking up forestry 

 information as to the training required, 

 the chances for employment, and the 

 compensation to be expected. 



With the increase of interest in for- 

 estry throughout the country, there has 

 come to the Bureau each year a greater 

 number of requests for information. 

 Last winter the Bureau in a few weeks 

 received more than 600 applications for 

 the position of Student Assistant, 

 through the publication of an article in 

 a well-known weekly paper on " For- 

 estry, the New Profession. ' ' The writer 

 of the article intimated that anyone de- 

 siring to become a forester need onh- 

 write to the Bureau of Forestry in order 

 to receive a position. As a result, there 

 was a flood of applications from all 

 sorts and conditions of men, ranging 

 from automobile drivers to college pro- 

 fessors. It seemed as though the popu- 

 lace was fired with the desire to "save 

 the forests." 



This Bureau circular will probably 

 blast man}- a hope when applicants read 

 that ' ' the field work required of vStudent 

 Assistants is severe, monotonous, and 

 often entails some hardship. Student 

 Assistants in the field usuall}^ live in 

 camp and are required to keep lumber- 

 men's hours. Their work consists chiefly 

 in valuation surv^eys, or measurements 

 of the standing timber upon given areas, 

 and in stem analyses, or measurements 

 of contents and rate of growth made 

 upon felled trees. 



" Cheerful obedience to orders is re- 

 quired of all Student Assistants. Lazi- 

 ness or discontent is fatal to camp dis- 

 cipline and to effective work. No 

 Stitdent Assistant is retained who proves 

 physicall}- unfit for his duties or who 

 shows a desire to shirk them. Bodily 

 soundness and endurance is absoluteh- 

 essential for those who take up the 

 work of a Student Assistant. Work in 

 the woods differs profoundly from camp 

 life as it is usually luiderstood. A vStu- 

 dent Assistant must be prepared to com- 

 bine severe mental work with severe 

 bodily labor under conditions which 

 make each one peculiarly trying." 



The circular contains a lot of valuable 



