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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



May, 



HON. THOMAS C. MCRAE. 



HON. THOMAS C. McRAE has for a number of years been one of the most 

 indefatigable advocates of a practical, business-like administration of the 

 forest reserves of the United States. To his energy is largely due the enactment 

 of beneficial legislation regarding national forest reserves. He has long been 

 an active member of the American Forestry Association, and has served as 

 vice-president for the State of Arkansas. Mr. McRae was born at Mt. Holly, 

 Arkansas, in 1851 ; was educated mainly at private schools; worked on a farm 

 and in business houses. He graduated in law at the Washington and Eee Uni- 

 versity, Virginia, in 1872 ; was admitted to practice in the state circuit courts in 

 the following year, and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress, being reelected 

 eight times in succession. He is thus among the oldest members of the House 

 and is now serving upon the important Committee on Appropriations. 



