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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



July, 



considered by the House before adjourn- 

 ment, and it therefore goes over as un- 

 finished business until next session, 

 when it will again be taken up. 



A Minnesota 

 Forest Reserve. 



A bill was passed by 

 Congress during the 

 last week of the recent 

 session which provides for the sale of 

 the pine timber upon the ceded Chip- 

 pawa reservations in northern Minne- 

 sota ; the bill also contains a provision 

 for establishing a national forest reserve 

 on a portion of these lands. 



The section which relates to the es- 

 tablishment of a forest reserve provides, 

 that in the cutting of the timber on 

 200,000 acres of the pine lands, to be- 

 selected by the Forester of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, with the approval 

 of the Secretar}^ of the Interior, the pur- 

 chaser shall be required to leave stand- 

 ing five per cent of the pine timber 

 thereon for the purpose of reforestation. 

 As soon as the merchantable pine tim- 

 ber is removed, these lands are to become 

 a part of a forest reserve as though set- 

 apart by the proclamation of the Presi- 

 dent. 



203,893 AcTva 



S KETCH MAP 



NEW MEXICO 



SHOWING THE 



IRRIGATED AREAS 



ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF 



1900. 



Scale 



