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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



work of government field parties along 

 the Colorado River. 



Resolutions on The Colorado Forestry 

 Death of Association, at a recent 



William N. meeting in Denver, 

 Byers. passed the following res- 



olutions on the death of 

 Mr. William N. Byers, president of the 

 organization : 



We, the officers and Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Colorado State Forestry 

 Association, hereby desire to express 

 our feeling of bereavement in the death 

 of William N. Byers, President of this 

 Association. 



In view of the fact that this Associa- 

 tion was organized with William N. 

 Byers in the chair ; that he has been 

 constantly associated with it from its 

 inception, in 1884, till the present pe- 

 riod ; that he has ever been an effective 

 factor in its activity, and its President 

 much of the time ; that he was greatly 

 endeared to it, ever endeavoring to make 

 it beneficial to the people of the State ; 

 and also in view of a further fact : 



That as a private citizen his love of 

 silviculture led him to collect and plant 

 in the grounds of his home no less than 

 thirty-five different kinds and varieties of 

 deciduous trees, foreign to the Rocky 

 Mountains, thus doing more than any 

 other one person in Colorado to demon- 

 strate the adaptability of our climate to 

 practical forestry ; therefore be it 



Resolved, That the cause of forestry 

 and our mountain forests have lost an 

 intelligent and loving friend ; that this 

 Association has lost an earnest advocate 

 and wise leader one who laid broad 

 foundations and built well ; one who 

 sowed seeds of wisdom for future har- 

 vests and though we unite our sorrow 

 with the public grief and a stricken 

 family, yet we rejoice in the nobility of 

 one who has builded along every avenue 

 of progress in the history of our city 

 and state ; the nobility of one whose 

 footprints are seen in every walk for the 

 betterment of our every-day life ; and 

 be it 



Further resolved, That these proceed- 

 ings be spread upon the records of the 

 Association and a copy thereof sent to 



the family of the deceased, and also that 

 copies be supplied the daily press of 

 Denver, the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, Washington, D. C., and the 

 International Society of Arboriculture, 

 Chicago. 



(Signed) W. G. M. STONE, 



} 'ice- President. 

 JABEZ NORMAN, 



Secretary. 

 A. L. FELLOWS, 

 HENRY MICHELSEN, 

 HELEN L. GRENFELL, 

 C. E. WANTLAND, 

 PLATT ROGERS, 



Executive Committee. 



Pollution of A new phase of injurious 

 Irrigation pollution which has devel- 

 Canals. oped in connection with 



some of the irrigating 

 canals near Greeley, Weld county, 

 Colorado, and which threatens to 

 become somewhat serious unless soon 

 controlled, has been forced upon the 

 attention of the hydrographers of the 

 United States Geological Survey. 



In the Greeley district there are sev- 

 eral large beet-sugar factories which 

 discharge the refuse of thousands of 

 tons of beets daily into the streams and 

 ditches of the neighborhood. This 

 refuse, in the form of a light gray pasty 

 substance, renders the water entirely 

 unfit for household and farm uses, and 

 covers the land flooded by it with a 

 malodorous deposit. It is likely that 

 the matter will soon be made the sub- 

 ject of investigation in the hope of dis- 

 posing of this refuse in a manner equally 

 satisfactory to the manufacturer of the 

 beet sugar and to the farmer. 



It may prove to be a fact that the 

 waste material from the beets can be 

 utilized as a fertilizer and so become a 

 valuable asset to the factories and a 

 benefit instead of a nuisance to the 

 farmers 



The Greeley irrigation district, 

 founded largely through the influence 

 of Horace Greeley, is one of the first 

 irrigation enterprises developed by our 

 people in the West. The district has 

 been very successful, and is now a large 

 and growing community. 



