1903 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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Copyright by J. E. Purdy. Boston. 





FREDERICK HAYNES NEWELL, 



CHIEF ENGINEER UNITED STATES RECLAMATION SERVICE. 



FREDERICK HAYNES NEWELL, Chief Engineer of the Government Reclamation 

 Service, was born at Bradford, Penna., March 5, 1862. His education was received first 

 at Needham, Mass., and later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which 

 he graduated as a mining engineer and geologist in 1885. 



Next he engaged in mining in Colorado ; later was an assistant in the Ohio Geological 

 Survey, and also did miscellaneous engineering work in Pennsylvania and Virginia, finally 

 joining the staff of the U. S. Geological Survey, where in 1888 he became Chief Hydrographer. 

 In addition to his work at the Geological Survey, he was secretary of the National Geographic 

 Society, i8g2-'93 and iSgy-'gg. He was also secretary of the American Forestry Association 

 from 1895 vmtil March, 1903, a position in which he rendered valuable service in advancing the 

 cause of forest protection. 



Mr. Newell began his work under Major John Wesley Powell, the pioneer of the national 

 irrigation movement, and he has been actively identified with it for fifteen years. During this 

 time he has made a most exhaustive study of the water resources, not only of the arid region, 

 but of the entire country, and is to-day the recognized authority on questions relating to water 

 supply. To the investigations made under his direction much of the advance in irrigation in 

 the United States is due. 



