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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



On the same date a report from Santa 

 Monica, Cal., announced that 30 miles 

 of the coast in that region had been de- 

 vastated by forest fires, which worked 

 in and out of the canyons and destroyed 

 a number of residences, at a loss of 

 si 50, ooo. 



At Kscondido much damage resulted 

 from a fire which burned the Escondido 

 Irrigation Company's district flume line 

 in several places. Repairs will cost 

 $30,000 to $40,000. 



Less destructive fires are reported 

 from Parksville, Ky. (November 30), 

 from Wrightsboro, N. C. , and from 

 Elaine, 111. 



It is worthy of note that during the 

 last fiscal year 597 camp and other 

 small fires were discovered burning in 

 the forest reserves and extinguished 

 by the rangers while in the incipient 

 stage. 



There were also 279 larger fires, of 

 which some few escaped control and 

 burned over considerable areas. Alto- 

 gether, more than 280,000 acres were 

 burned in the reserves. 



Several counties in the Adirondack 

 region of New York State, following the 

 leadership of St. Lawrence county, are 

 endeavoring to move the legislature to 

 such action as will cause the expense of 

 fighting forest fires in the future to be 

 borne wholly by the state, instead of 

 throwing half the burden on thinly 

 settled, poor towns, as atlpresent. The 

 supervisors of the affected towns sa}^ 

 that much of the expense in the heavy 

 fires of last spring was for the protec- 

 tion of state land, and that as the Adi- 

 rondacks are used by citizens of the 

 whole state as a pleasure resort, these 

 citizens should help stand these ex- 

 penses. 



Geological The space allotted to 



Survey this important bureau 



Exhibit at will be utilized as com- 



St. Louis. pletely as possible with 



an exhibit illustrating 

 the various lines of work carried on by 

 the several branches of the Survey. 



Twelve colored photographic trans- 

 parencies will represent typical land- 

 scapes in various quarters of the United 



States, and show the men of the field 

 branches at their work, on the march f 

 and in camp. 



Of great interest to partisans of irri- 

 gation will be two large scale models of 

 the engineering work of the government 

 reclamation projects at the Gunnison 

 River in Colorado and on the Salt 

 River, near Mesa, Arizona. 



The former shows the diversion of the 

 water of the Gunnison River to the Un- 

 compahgre Valley by means of a tunnel 

 6^ miles long. The latter is a work- 

 ing model, 7 by 21 feet in extent, which 

 is meant to demonstrate with actual 

 flowing water the action of the immense 

 dam and the canal by which electric 

 power is developed to aid in its con- 

 struction. 



The towers and gates by which the 

 water is let out of the reservoir into the 

 stream bed appear in operation, and far- 

 ther down the stream are seen the head- 

 gates, flumes, division gates, measuring 

 weirs, etc., which control and regulate 

 the flow of the waters to the irrigated 

 lands. 



The orchards, vineyards, orange 

 groves, and field crops resulting from, 

 the application of water to the land form 

 part of the model, and each object is 

 painted to resemble the actual present 

 appearance of the locality. 



Professor Prof. Henry S. Graves, 



Graves director of the Yale For- 



Married. est School, was married 



on December 19, at New 

 Haven, Connecticut, to Miss Marian 

 Welch, daughter of Mr. Pierce Welch, 

 of that city. 



The Land This from a prominent 



Grabber at citizen of New Mexico: 

 Work. ' The land grabber is 



working ov ertime in our 

 territory, and his latest scheme works 

 like a charm. In the Pecos Valley the 

 desert entrymen rent a pumping plant, 

 set it up before the inspector arrives, 

 and soak up a few acres. Title passes 

 to the entry man, and the pump is re- 

 turned or passed on to the next would-be 

 land owner." 



