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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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Thos. South-worth, Director of Forestry 

 for Ontario, Toronto; C. Jackson Booth, 

 Ottawa; John Bertram, Chief of Forest 

 Rangers for Ontario, Toronto; E. G. 

 Joly de Lotbiniere, Quebec. 



The association will meet next year 

 in Toronto, in order to generalize inter- 

 est in its work. 



Two of the most important subjects 

 discussed were those of forest fires and 

 the establishment of an educational 

 course in forestry. In connection with 

 the former, a resolution was adopted, 

 calling on the Dominion and Provincial 

 governments to increase the number of 

 fire rangers, explore and survey exist- 

 ing tracts of timber in order to ascer- 

 tain their extent and value, and deter- 

 mine which are suitable for agriculture 

 and which are not. The resolution also 

 calls on the governments to exercise 

 more care and caution in the placing of 

 settlers, so as to keep them out of tim- 

 ber country unsuited for agriculture, 

 and where their land-clearing and scrub- 

 burning operations have been and will 

 continue to be a source of great danger 

 to the valuable timber on all sides. 



New Chief of As noted in the February 

 Forest number of FORESTRY 



Reserves. AND IRRIGATION, Pro- 



fessor Filibert Roth re- 

 signed his position as chief of the Divis- 

 ion of Forest Reserves in the General 

 Land Office. His place has since been 

 filled by the selection of Mr. Hiram H. 

 Jones. 



Mr. Jones has had a long experience 

 in the Land Office, his term of service 

 there being about 21 years. He first 

 organized the Division of Forest Re- 

 serves, and has been actively connected 

 with it ever since. He was at one time 

 assistant chief of the Special Sen-ice 

 Division, and has been principal exam- 

 iner of contests and land claims, as well 

 as assistant chief of the Division of For- 

 est Reserves. 



From his long connection with the 

 service Mr. Jones has gained a wide 

 knowledge of the matters that come be- 

 fore the Land Office, and he should 

 make a successful chief of a division 

 which is of decided importance to the 

 country at large. 



Forest The Bureau of Forestry 



Experiment of theU. S. Department 

 Station. of Agriculture has es- 



tablished a permanent 

 forest experiment station at the Uni- 

 versity of California. Dr. W. K. Hatt, 

 recently called from the chair of applied 

 science in Purdue University to serve 

 as civil engineer in the Bureau of For- 

 estry, has gone from Washington to 

 organize the station. The resources of 

 the civil engineering laboratory of the 

 university have been placed at his dis- 

 posal. A civil engineer who will go 

 from Washington to take charge of the 

 work, and his student assistants, will be 

 continuously engaged hereafter in com- 

 mercial and scientific investigations as 

 to California woods. San Francisco 

 lumber dealers have offered to supply 

 all the timber needed. Laboratory in- 

 vestigations will be conducted as to the 

 strength of various California timbers, 

 the effects on timbers of wet and dry 

 weather, of heat and cold, elasticity and 

 durability, preservative methods, ways 

 of seasoning, and the like. The results 

 secured at this station will be made 

 available for general use by publication 

 as bulletins of the Bureau of Forestry. 



State The legislatures of most of 



Irrigation the states and territories 

 Laws* of the arid region have 



now adjourned, but there 

 is not much definite information avail- 

 able here as to what has been accom- 

 plished during the session in regard to 

 irrigation matters, except in a few cases. 

 A statement has been prepared by states, 

 showing the information now at hand 

 concerning the results of the various 

 sessions. 



California* The general code of irri- 

 gation laws usually spoken of as the 

 Works bill was not passed. The bill 

 known as the Curtin bill was passed by 

 both houses after vigorous discussion, 

 and at last advices was in the hands of 

 the governor. It provides that when- 

 ever the supply of water of individuals 

 or corporations who are engaged in the 

 business of furnishing water shall be- 

 come insufficient to meet the demands of 

 customers, the supply shall be prorated 

 in proportion to the quantity previously 



