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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



And here is the kernel of the little 

 story : Mr. Kimball collided with the 

 government while it was making forest 

 reserves once, twice. He was pro- 

 voked and immediately set down his 

 opinions in an article under the title 

 mentioned. We are ready to say that 

 it is a well-written article, though dis- 

 agreeing decidedly with the contents of 

 it. The writer knew of the attitude 

 of Colonel Harvey's publications and 

 picked them out as the most likely place 

 to get a hearing. 



Colonel Harvey, reading this article, 

 found that it talked much of the ' ' cult ' ' 

 of forest preservation, whatever that 

 may mean. It charged the government 

 with setting up a large game preserve in 

 Wyoming and in harassing the people in 

 the name of the ' ' cult. ' ' And all this 

 was aided and abetted by the President. 

 Colonel Harvey knew nothing of the 

 sheep raising and mining business that 

 had prompted the supposedly righteous 

 wail from the Wyoming man. But 

 here seemed a chance to hurt the Pres- 

 ident with his western friends, and the 

 article was used. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION is not a 

 political journal ; moreover, it does not 

 agree with all of President Roosevelt's 

 policies, but we cannot refrain from ex- 

 posing such cheap trickery as the above, 

 especially when it comes within the field 

 of forestry. It is hardly what one would 

 expect from the editor of "A Journal of 

 Civilization." 



Forestry The University of Mich- 



School at the igan, at Ann Arbor, has 

 University established courses in 



of Michigan. forestry, the work to be 

 under the direction of 

 Filibert Roth, B. S., professor of for- 

 estry, and Charles A. Davis, A. M., 

 instructor in forestry. The university 

 is to be congratulated on two important 

 things in the establishment of such a 

 course. The first is in the selection of 

 Professor Roth as the head of the new 

 school, and the second and even more 

 important is the initial establishment of 

 all work on the basis of graduate study. 

 Such a step in the beginning assures 

 real value for the work done by the 



school, will give a better training, and 

 will secure students of broader general 

 education and of more mature minds 

 than if the course were made simply a 

 term of lectures in an undergraduate 

 year. The two years' graduate study 

 leads to the master's degree in forestry. 

 The university is particularly well sit- 

 uated for forest work, and short trips 

 either by steam or trolley cars will take 

 the student to places where all condi- 

 tions of forest, showing the results of 

 good and bad management, can be met 

 with. The university itself has a forest 

 reserve of over 8,000 acres, and much of 

 the field-work will be carried on in this 

 tract. Requirements for ad mission and 

 a synopsis of the courses to be pursued, 

 together with other information, may 

 be had by applying to the University of 

 Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



First Report of The First Annual Re- 

 Reclamation port of the Reclamation 

 Service. Service, by Mr. F. H. 



New r ell, chief engineer, 

 which will be published as a Congres- 

 sional document, is about to be issued 

 by the United States Geological Survey. 



In his letter of transmittal the Di- 

 rector of the Survey notes that the 

 reclamation law of June 17, 1902, which 

 is quoted in full, is so general in its 

 terms that its success or failure may be 

 said to rest almost wholly upon its ad- 

 ministration, innumerable details not 

 being touched upon in the law. 



The work of examination and survey 

 is described by states. In most in- 

 stances the field-work is still in progress, 

 and in nearly every locality there are 

 alternative methods of reaching the de- 

 sired end, the relative merits of which 

 cannot be determined until careful esti- 

 mates have been made. In brief, it 

 may be stated that work has been car- 

 ried on in the following localities in the 

 various states and territories : On Salt 

 and Gila rivers in Arizona, on Colorado 

 River in California, on North Platte, 

 Gunnison, and Grand rivers in Colorado; 

 on Snake River in Idaho, on the deep- 

 well problems of western Kansas, on 

 Milk River in Montana, on the artesian- 

 well probabilities of western Nebraska, 



