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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



July 



work of the school on their own re- 

 sponsibility until they could put it on 

 such a basis as would again commend 

 it to the state authorities and to again 

 receive state aid. 



Western The National Irrigation 



Irrigation Association has begun 



Interests a campaign, already 



the East. proving successful, of 



interesting business men 

 of eastern trade centers, and particularly 

 of New York, in the reclamation work 

 that has done so much for the advance- 

 ment of the West. This association, 

 through its southern California branch, 

 has opened an office in New York city, 

 with Mr. C. B. Boothe, of Los Angeles, 

 an ardent worker in the interests of irri- 

 gation, in charge. Mr. Boothe is al- 

 ready in close touch with the Merchants' 

 Association, one of the most important 

 business men's organizations of the 

 metropolis, and the members have ap- 

 pointed a special committtee on irriga- 

 tion to look into the matter and report 

 at the first fall meeting. Mr. Boothe 

 is at present in Los Angeles, where he 

 has just gone to spend some time in 

 further enlarging the scope and mem- 

 bership of the Southern California Sec- 

 tion of the National Irrigation Associa- 

 tion. This section has long had a large 

 and influential membership among the 

 solid business men of the southern part 

 of the state, all of whom are deeply in- 

 terested in the advantages to accrue 

 from an increase in the possibilities of 

 irrigation. 



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Irrigation Attention is called to 



Works to be the proposals being 

 Built. asked for by the Inte- 



rior Department for the 

 construction of irrigation canals, ditches, 

 and reservoirs, and the opportunity 

 they afford to engineers and contractors. 

 Thus in an indirect way industry is 

 being stimulated by the government 

 works under construction, and money 

 will be taken into the country to be 

 benefited by the works. An advertise- 

 ment of proposals for irrigation works 

 appears among the pages devoted to 

 such matter in this magazine. 



The particular irrigation system con- 

 templated in this case will involve the 

 construction of a dam in the Truckee 

 River, Nevada, to store water for di- 

 verting the water through 15 miles of 

 canals into the Carson Basin. It is pro- 

 posed to take 1,400 cubic feet of water 

 per second from the river and irrigate 

 with it 200,000 acres of land. Each 

 settler will probably be permitted to 

 take up 80 acres, to be paid for in an 

 amount equal to the cost of the works 

 pro rata, not to exceed $15 per acre for 

 land and water, and it is expected that 

 payments of $i per acre per year will be 

 permitted. This is one of the five great 

 projects undertaken by the provisions- 

 of the national irrigation act. 



Forestry at Harvard University,. 

 Harvard. through the Lawrence 



Scientific School, has 

 established a course in forestry, instruc- 

 tion to begin next fall under the direc- 

 tion of Mr. R. T. Fisher, who is now in 

 the employ of the Bureau of Forestry. 

 Mr. Fisher has had considerable experi- 

 ence in the forest problems of this 

 country, being the author or collabo- 

 rator on several bulletins published by 

 the bureau. He is particularly fitted! 

 for a New England school, having given 

 much attention to woodlots and forest 

 conditions in that section of the coun- 

 try. The requirements for admission 

 to the course are the same as those for 

 any other program in the Lawrence 

 Scientific School, and catalogues and 

 circulars giving detailed and definite 

 information may be obtained from the 

 secretary, J. L- Love, 16 University 

 Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



To Irrigate Sir William Willcocks, 

 Ancient late Director General of 



Babylon and Reservoirs, Egypt, and 

 Chaldea. the designer of the great 



Assuan dam, has turned 

 his attention to the project of reclaim- 

 ing the wonderfully fertile valleys of 

 the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and 

 proposes to make use of the canals and 

 reservoirs which remain from an an- 

 cient civilization. This region was once 



