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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



July 



ties, tests of bridge timbers, and other 

 wood material. He was formerly with 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



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Public Funds Commissioner Richards, 

 for Irrigation, of the General Land 

 Office, has prepared a 

 statement giving the exact amount of 

 the fund set apart for the reclamation 

 of arid lands under the irrigation act of 

 June 17, 1902. 



It shows a total of $7,530,338 for the 

 years 1901 and 1902, distributed among 

 the states and territories as follows : 



Arizona, $81,773 ; California, $503,- 

 270 ; Colorado, $628,995 ; Idaho, $507,- 

 448 ; Kansas, $49, I 35 ; Montana, $772,- 

 377; Nebraska, $235,194; Nevada, 

 $23,414; New Mexico, $147,237; North 

 Dakota, $1,227, 496; Oklahoma, $i, 008,- 

 795 ; Oregon, $910,961 ; South Dakota, 

 $307,362; Utah, $146,824; Washing- 

 ton, $794,088 ; Wyoming, $385,762. 

 The total for 1901 was $3,144,861, and 

 for 1902 $4,565-516. 



The returns on the sale of public 

 lands for the first three quarters of the 

 present fiscal year indicate that the re- 

 ceipts will be about equal to the two 

 preceding years, so that by the first of 

 July the irrigation fund in the treasury 

 will be about $15,000,000. 



and is located in the northwestern part 

 of Montana, in Flathead, Teton, Lewis 

 and Clarke, and Missoula counties. 



Steps Taken A mass meeting was 

 to Secure held in the city hall 



Reservoir. plaza of Phoenix, Ariz., 



June 7, at which it was 

 announced that 10,000 acres had been 

 subscribed to the Salt River Valley 

 Water User's Association, the central 

 organization with which the federal gov- 

 ernment will deal in building a storage 

 reservoir on the Tonto site, as told in 

 the May number of FORESTRY AND IR- 

 RIGATION. This amount will secure 

 the construction of the reservoir, and 

 other acreages are being signed as fast 

 as clerks can make out the papers. It 

 is said that many old farmers with an 

 inborn fear of the word ' ' corporation ' 

 who have hitherto withheld their signa- 

 tures are signing as quickly as possible. 

 Mr. George H. Maxwell delivered a 

 strong address in favor of the national 

 irrigation movement. 



To Conserve 

 the Water 

 Supply. 



New Forest 

 Reserves. 



Several new forest re- 

 serves have recently 

 been created by Presi- 

 dential proclamation. Two of these new 

 reserves, the Logan and Manti, are lo- 

 cated in Utah. The Logan Forest Re- 

 serve is situated near the northern 

 boundary of the state, within Cache and 

 Rich counties, and is 182,080 acres in 

 extent. The Manti Reserve, covering 

 an area of 584,640 acres, is in Sanpete, 

 Sevier, Emery, and Carbon counties, in 

 central Utah. 



The Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve 

 and the Flathead Reserve in Montana, 

 along with new additions to both, have 

 been combined and will hereafter be 

 known by the name of the former. The 

 Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve is now 

 the second largest in the United States, 

 containing an area of 4,670,720 acres, 



The Pike's Peak Forest 

 Reserve of Colorado will 

 receive this summer the 

 special attention of the 

 Bureau of Forestry. A party of seven 

 men will make a study of that* part of 

 the reserve lying south of the cogwheel 

 railroad up Pike's Peak, in order to de- 

 termine whether the great damage done 

 the land by fire may be overcome, and 

 what may be done to improve the drain- 

 age conditions. This part of the re- 

 serve is of the greatest importance to 

 Colorado Springs and Pueblo, which 

 derive their water supply from lakes 

 and streams within it. All of the water 

 for Pueblo comes from the Seven Lakes 

 region. Nearly the whole tract has 

 been burned over, and the destruction 

 of timbers has resulted in a very great 

 reduction in the water supply. The 

 purpose of the Bureau in making this 

 study is chiefly to determine what may 

 be done to improve the drainage con- 

 ditions of the reserve. Colorado Springs 

 and Pueblo are growing rapidly and re- 

 quire every year a larger amount of 

 water. The supply , scanty enough now, 



