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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



riod of ten years the time within which 

 desert lands may be segregated. 



In the House: By Mr. Wallace: A bill 

 (H. R. 7295) to provide for the sale of 

 the timber and other material growing or 

 being on public forest reserves, and for 

 renting or leasing of the lands therein. 



Also a bill (H. R. 7296) for the pro- 

 tection of the public forest reserves and 

 national parks of the United States. 



December 16. 



In the Senate : Mr. Nelson introduced 

 a bill (S. 2684) to grant to the State of 

 Minnesota certain public lands for for- 

 estry purposes. 



December 17. 



In the Senate : Mr. Dubois presented 

 a resolution of the Wool Growers' As- 

 sociation of Idaho, treating of the rela- 

 tion between stock-raisers of the West 

 and the forest reserves, and endorsing 

 the recommendation of President Roose- 

 velt in his last message pertinent to this 

 subject. 



Mr. Heyburn introduced a bill (S. 

 2722) limiting the right of selection of 

 public lands of the United States in lieu 

 of surrendered railroad land-grant lands. 



In the House : By Mr. Lacey: A bill 

 (H. R. 8135) for the protection of wild 



animals, birds, and fish in the forest re- 

 serves of the United States. 



By Mr. Williamson : A bill (H. R. 

 8143) to amend an act entitled "An act 

 authorizing the citizens of Colorado, 

 Nevada, and the territories to fell tim- 

 ber on the public domain." 



December 19. 



In the House : Mr. Mondell, from the 

 Committee on the Public Lands, to 

 which was referred the bill of the House 

 (H. R. 1987), reported in lieu thereof 

 a bill (H. R. 8460) providing for the 

 transfer of forest reserves from the De- 

 partment of the Interior to the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. Said bill (H. R. 

 8460) was referred to the Committee on 

 the Public Lands. 



By Mr. Lamar, of Missouri : A bill 

 (H. R. 8435) to amend the act of Con- 

 gress of March n, 1902, relating to 

 homesteads. 



By Mr. French: A memorial from the 

 legislature of Idaho concerning the 

 Priest River Forest Reserve. 



Also a memorial from the legislature 

 of Idaho concerning the rights of owners 

 of live stock. 



Also a memorial from the legislature 

 of Idaho concerning a system of artesian 

 wells in Idaho. 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 



Any of these books will be sent by the publishers of "Forestry and Irrigation," postpaid, to any 

 address on receipt of the published price, with postage added when Ike price is marked "net." 



The Restoration of the Ancient Irrigation Works 

 on the Tigris, or the Re-creation of Chaldea. 

 By Sir WILLIAM WILLCOCKS, K. C. M. G., 

 M. I., C. E. Illustrated with maps and 

 pen drawings on ten plates. Pp. 71. Cairo, 

 National Printing Department, 1903 



The land of Chaldea, once the home of a 

 world power, today is desert. The remains of 

 irrigation works of great magnitude tell of for- 

 mer days when the land teemed with people, 

 and when the valley of the Tigris was ' ' the 

 crown of the possessions of the powers which 

 swayed the East." The cause of all this deso- 

 lation is given by Sir William, and plans for 

 the irrigation of the country are set forth. A 

 plan is now on foot to send in a large party of 

 engineers during 1904 to estimate the feasibil- 

 ity and cost of reclamation. This work stands 

 before the world today as one of the greatest 



now before the irrigator. The reestablishment 

 of prosperity in a country whose history has 

 been so glorious must be a great incentive to 

 the engineer. 



In an appendix a reprint is made of a lec- 

 ture on " Egypt Fifty Years Hence." In this 

 lecture is outlined a system of control of the 

 Nile from its source in the Great Lakes of 

 Central Africa to the Mediterranean a system 

 of control which, if carried out, will place 

 Egypt at the forefront of the irrigated coun- 

 tries of the world. 



Second Report of the U. S. Board on Geographic 

 Names. Second edition. 150 pp. Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office, 1901. 



In addition to the reports and recommenda- 

 tions of the board, this volume contains a com- 

 plete list, corrected to 1900, of the geographical 



