Forestry and Irrigation* 



VOL. IX. 



JUNE, 1903. 



No. 6. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



Forest Work Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 

 Outlined in Forester of the Depart - 

 Minnesota. merit of Agriculture, 

 has just returned to 

 Washington from a trip to northern 

 Minnesota, where he made a tour of 

 the Cass and Leech Lake region. In 

 company with Commissioner Richards, 

 of the General Land Office, he inspected 

 the w r ork carried on during the past 

 summer and winter under the direction 

 of Mr. Eugene S. Bruce, Lumberman 

 in the Bureau of Forestry. The prin- 

 cipal object of this work was to select, 

 in accordance with the provisions of the 

 Morris act, passed at the first session of 

 the last Congress, a tract of 225,000 

 acres for a forest reserve, about the 

 headwaters of the Mississippi. In addi- 

 tion, ten sections of land were to be 

 chosen, to remain unlumbered in the 

 interest of the permanent beauty of the 

 region. 



On the 225,000 acres to be chosen for 

 a forest reserve from the Chippewa 

 Indian lands, now to be opened, the 

 law provides that 95 per cent of the 

 timber shall be removed under rules and 

 regulations prescribed by the Forester, 

 one of the objects of whose recent trip 

 was to determine on the manner of se- 

 lecting the five per cent to remain and 

 the rules to be employed. It was found 

 that excellent work had been done by 

 the members of the Bureau, and that 

 the situation, both on the ground and 

 in the public sentiment of the state, was 

 most favorable to the proposed reserve. 

 Reproduction of the forest is abundant 

 and easily secured if fires can be kept 

 out. In fact, the fire problem is the 

 greatest one to be faced. In order to 

 meet it in part, the bill provides for the 

 burning of tops and other debris of the 



logging at a time when there will be no 

 danger that the fire will spread. 



At a dinner in St. Paul, arranged in 

 honor of Mr. Pinchot by the Minnesota 

 Club, Governor Van Sant and other 

 prominent men in the state who are 

 interested in forestry w r ere present. 

 Among the addresses was one by Mr. 

 Fred G. Weyerhauser, a prominent lum- 

 berman of Minnesota, who said that 

 the lumberman had come to see the 

 practical importance of forestry in his 

 operations. Brief addresses were made 

 by Senator Clapp, Representative F. C. 

 Stevens, Professor Tucker, and Mr. 

 F. M. Eddy. 



The list of guests at this banquet, in 

 addition to the Governor, included State 

 Auditor S. G. Iverson, who, by virtue 

 of his office, is state forest commissioner ; 

 Gen. C. C. Andrews, state fire warden ; 

 Professors S. B. Green and F. D. 

 Tucker, of the state agricultural school ; 

 Herman Chapman, superintendent of 

 the experiment station at Grand Rapids; 

 Mayor F. M. Kratka, of Thief River 

 Falls ; Gen. W. A. Kobbe, D. R. 

 Noyes, who was Mr. Pinchot's host in 

 St. Paul ; Ambrose Tighe, B. F. 

 Beardsley, Chas. Christadoro, Webster 

 Wheelock, R. C. Jefferson, W. B. 

 Dean, Winthrop Noyes, and Conde 

 Hamlin. 



Spring Drouth 

 in the East. 



Many owners of truck 

 farms and market gar- 

 dens in the Middle At- 

 lantic States have had it forcibly brought 

 home to them during the month of May 

 that great loss is bound to accrue to them 

 through protracted dry weather during 

 the most important part of the growing 

 season. On the one hand, those with- 



