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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



of the forests of the state and to his un- 

 tiring energy in bringing together de- 

 sirable material. During the present 

 year he was planning to collect speci- 

 mens for the Lewis and Clarke Centen- 

 nial Exposition, to be held at Portland, 

 Oregon, in 1905. It is probable also 

 that had he lived he would have been 

 largely concerned in the preparation of 

 the Oregon State forest exhibit to be 

 installed at the World's Fair, St. Louis, 

 in 1904. 



Mr. Johnson's exhaustive contribu- 

 tions of field-notes and other data from 

 which the United States Geological 

 Survey recently compiled a map and 

 description of Oregon forests is a most 

 important work, which he completed as 

 an expert in the employ of the above 

 department. Nearly three years of 

 arduous field travel and study were 

 consumed in this investigation, the re- 

 sults of which are of the greatest prac- 



tical value both to foresters and to lum- 

 bermen. 



Mr. Johnson was widely and very 

 favorably known in Oregon, and he was 

 always keenly alive to furthering the 

 forest and agricultural interests of his 

 state. He has made himself most help- 

 ful to many travelers and explorers who 

 under his guidance have studied the 

 forest and other plants of Oregon. 



He was a self-made man, whose frank, 

 genial manner won for him many friends 

 to grieve at his passing. 



Business Men 

 Favor the 

 Home-seeker. 



The National Business 

 League, with headquar- 

 ters at Chicago, have 

 printed for distribution 

 copies of resolutions, unanimously 

 adopted by them, recommending an 

 early repeal of the desert land law, the 

 commutation clause of the homestead 



Photo reproduced through courtesy of Mr. F. O. McGehee. 



SCENE IN AN OLD FIELD GROWN UP IX PINE, NEAR PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS. THIS FIELD 



WAS CULTIVATED IN 1877, AND THE LARGEST TREES ARE NOW ABOUT l6 INCHES 



IN DIAMETER ; RESULT OF KEEPING OUT FIRE. 



