1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



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ties, where the forest products have in 

 the past far outweighed in value the ag- 

 ricultural. Here the word " forestry " 

 has seldom been heard, except through 

 Berea's teachings, and the waste by fire 

 and axe is as deplorable as anywhere in 

 our land. These young people will 

 carry into hundreds of neighborhoods 

 the ideas gathered from each winter's 

 course of lectures. Their note books, 

 some of them very ingeniously illus- 



trated, are read over and discussed b)^ 

 the family and neighbors around many 

 a mountain fireside. 



The ' ' Primer of Forestry ' ' and other 

 bulletins on forestry are read, and a 

 foundation of public sentiment estab- 

 lished which the coming years will show 

 to be far reaching in its effects. Berea 

 can modestly boast of teaching the ele- 

 ments of forestry to more people than 

 any other institution in the country. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION IN CONGRESS. 



MONTH OF MARCH, I902. 



March 3. 



Mr. Spooner, in the Senate, presented 

 a memorial of the Board of Trade of I^a 

 Crosse, Wis., remonstrating against the 

 proposed opening to settlement of the 

 Leach Lake Chippewa Reservation, in 

 the State of Minnesota; which was re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Indian 

 Affairs. 



A message to the House from the 

 Senate announced that an act (S. 3057) 

 appropriating the receipts from the sale 

 and disposal of public lands in certain 

 states and territories to the construc- 

 tion of irrigation works for the reclama- 

 tion of arid lands had passed. 



Mr. Powers, of Maine, introduced a 

 bill (H. R. 1 1997) granting to the 

 Hawaii Dutch Company, Limited, the 

 right of way over public lands in the 

 districts of North and South Kohala, 

 in the Island of Hawaii, for the purpose 

 of constructing and maintaining ditches 

 or canals and the necessary reservoirs, 

 dams, and the like for irrigation and 

 domestic purposes in said districts. Mr. 

 Smith, of Arizona, introduced a bill 

 (H. R. 1 1998) granting the Central 

 Arizona Railway Company a right of 

 way for railroad purposes through the 

 San Francisco Mountains Forest Re- 

 serve. To the Committee on the Public 

 Lands. 



March 4. 



The act (S. 3057) appropriating- the 

 receipts from the sale and disposal of 

 public lands in certain .states and terri- 



tories to the construction of irrigation 

 works for the reclamation of arid lands. 

 Referred to the House Committee on Irri- 

 gation of Arid Lands. Mr. Stevens, of 

 Minnesota, introduced a bill (H. R. 

 12092) to provide for a national park 

 commission. Referred to the Com- 

 mittee on Military Affairs. 



March 5, 



Mr. Moody, of North Carolina, intro- 

 duced a bill (H. R. 12 138) for the pur- 

 chase of a national forest reserve in the 

 Southern Appalachian Mountains, to be 

 known as the " McKinley Appalachian 

 National Park and Forest Reserve." 

 Referred to the Committee on Agricul- 

 ture. 



March 6. 



Mr. Miller, from the Committee on 

 the Public Lands, to which was referred 

 the bill of the House (H. R. 11998) 

 granting the Central Arizona Railway 

 Company a right of way through the 

 San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, ' 

 reported the same without amendment, 

 accompanied by a report (No. 772); 

 which said bill and report were referred 

 to the Committee of the Whole House 

 on the state of the Union. 



Mr. Needham, from the Committee 

 on the Public Lands, to which was 

 referred the bill of the House (H. R. 

 1 1538 ) providing the means of acquiring 

 title to two groves of Sequoia gigaiitea 

 in the State of California with a view to 

 making national parks thereof, reported 

 the same with amendments, accompanied 

 by a report (No. 777); which said bill 



