268 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION June 



out irrigation plants of some sort are at Santa Clara, Stanford University at 



confronted by serious losses, particu- Palo Alto, and culminating in a com- 



larly in the early vegetable and straw- mencement address at the University of 



berry crops. On the other hand, farm- California at Berkeley. In all of these 



ers who have some means of applying he showed that he was quick to observe 



water to their crops are doubly jubi- and appreciate the resources of Calif or- 



lant, because the warm sunshine, in nia, and he urged on his hearers the 



connection with water, has made sturdy necessity of working toward the fullest 



growth, and also because the general realization of the bounties that a gener- 



drouth conditions have made good pro- ous nature had bestowed by making the 



duce scarce and high-priced. In Wash- most of them and their perpetuation, 



ington, situated in the center of an im- In all cases he showed himself thor- 



mense market gardening area, which oughly conversant with the broad as- 



was not visited by rain between May 4 spects of both forestry and irrigation. 



and May 22, it is a noteworthy fact that and the benefits to be derived from, 



the strawberries in market are dis- them. 



tinctly of two classes : those grown Much of the pleasure of his trip de- 

 uuder conditions which left everything pended on the efforts of the forest 

 to natural sources and those which have rangers, especially in his visits to the 

 resulted from care and the application Big Tree groves and the Yosemite Val- 

 of needed water. The former are un- ley. He was thoroughly interested in 

 dersized and unattractive ; the latter them and in their work, the address to- 

 large and of fine color and appearance, his forest- ranger escort at Santa Bar- 

 and the difference in the price obtained bara being a case in point. His trip 

 for the two qualities is quite as marked through the West should bear fruit in 

 as the difference in looks and flavor. a reawakening of the question of mak- 

 These things go to prove that irriga- ing the most of natural resources, not 

 tion for the eastern farmer is not in any for the moment merely, but for future 

 sense a fad, but is well within the realm time, 

 of hard, practical fact if the grower ~ 

 wants to make sure of good profit on 



intensive crops. Irrigation During the winter of 



^ Surveys on 1902-1903 surveys and 



Colorado examinations have been 



President A record of the speeches River. made by agents of the 

 Roosevelt of the President on bis U. S. Geological Survey 

 Interested in western tour would along the Colorado River, in a coun- 

 Forestry and show many apt allu- try remote from civilization, where it 

 Irrigation. sions to the conserva- was difficult to obtain necessary sup- 

 tion of the woods and plies. The surveys started in an almost 

 w r aters of the country through which unknown country, and extended from 

 he has passed. From the beginning of the mouth of the Colorado to cover an 

 his tour he has constantly called the at- area nearly 400 miles long from north to 

 tention of his audiences to the need of south and from i to 10 miles in width, 

 conserving their country's resources The greater part of the work was 

 through a wise forest policy, and the done by Messrs. Rayburn and Robert- 

 development of them by the preserva- son, who made the triangulation sur- 

 tion and use of water supplies. It is veys. In addition to the survey work, 

 noteworthy that he has never lost an certain areas have been mapped and 

 opportunity during this time to speak contours shown at lo-foot intervals, 

 at educational institutions, and in Cali- This included all of the irrigable and 

 fornia particularly he made a series of bottom lands from Eldorado Canyon to- 

 addresses at the collegiate institutions Yuma, with the exception of about 40- 

 of the state, including Pomona College miles between Ehrenberg and Picacho, 

 at Los Angeles, the University of the which will be completed during the fall 

 Pacific at San Jose, Santa Clara College of 1903. 





