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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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directly interested, and to the Honor- 

 able James Wilson, Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, for the interest and good will he 

 always displayed toward our industry. 



Geological The Coast and Geodetic 



Survey Flag. Survey and other scien- 

 tific bureaus of the gov- 

 ernment have special flags, which their 

 men carry wherever their assignments 

 lead them and fly above their camps in 

 the wilderness. 



The Geological Survey has recently 

 adopted a special signal of this kind from 

 a design by Mr. Robert Hollister Chap- 

 man, which shows, in white, a triangle 

 crossed by two hammers and surrounded 

 by a circle of thirteen stars, on a rectan- 

 gular flag of dark blue. 



The new signal was displayed January 

 15 for the first time, hoisted beneath the 

 federal ensign on the staff above the 

 Survey offices at F and Fourteenth 

 streets, Washington. 



Reclamation 



Engineers 



Meet. 



An important meeting 

 of a number of the lead- 

 ing engineers of the 

 U. S. Reclamation Serv- 

 ice was held at the Geological Survey, 

 Washington, D. C., during the last 

 week of January. This conference was 

 for the purpose of giving consideration 

 to the plans for a number of important 

 irrigation projects before passing them 

 up to the Secretary for final decision. 

 Those present were: Chas. D.Walcott, 

 Director of the Geological Survey; F. H. 

 Newell, chief engineer of the Reclama- 

 tion Service ; A. P. Davis, supervising 

 engineer, Arizona district ; J. B. Lip- 

 pincott, supervising engineer, Califor- 

 nia ; A. L. Fellows, district engineer, 

 Colorado district ; C. H. Fitch, South 

 Dakota ; E. M. Taylor, engineer, Ne- 

 vada district ; M. Bien, legal adviser, 

 Washington, D. C. ; C. C. Babb, engi- 

 neer, Montana district ; F. E. Wey- 

 mouth, district engineer, North Dakota 

 district ; J. Ahern, district engineer, 

 Wyoming district ; J. T. Whistler, dis- 

 trict engineer, Oregon district ; H. A. 

 Stores, electrical expert ; M. C. Hinder- 

 lider, hydrographer, Colorado district ; 



E. Johnson, Jr., hydrographer, Missis- 

 sippi Valley district ; N. C. Grover, 

 hydrographer, New England district ; 

 E. G. Paul, hydrographer, northern 

 central states ; E. C. Murphy, hydro- 

 graphic inspector ; G. B. Hollister, ex- 

 ecutive officer, Washington office ; John 

 C. Hoyt, computer, Washington office ; 



C. J. Blanchard, statistician, Washing- 

 ton office ; M. O. Leighton, hydro- 

 economist, Washington office ; L. V. 

 lyimenegere, draftsman, Washington 



D. C. ; N. H. Darton, Washington 

 office ; J. H. Quinton, consulting engi- 

 neer. 



The engineers also visited the White 

 House in a body, where they were in- 

 troduced to President Roosevelt. 



Cass Lake On December 5, 1903, 



Timber Sales, and also on December 

 28, sales of the pine 

 stumpage selected under the provisions 

 of the Morris act were carried on at 

 Cass Lake, Minnesota. The results 

 were most gratifying, both as regards 

 the actual success of the sale and the 

 inference? which can hardly be avoided, 

 that lumbermen are beginning to con- 

 cede that their work can be done at a 

 profit under the principles of forestry. 



As has already been stated in these 

 columns, the Morris act requires that 

 the timber shall be removed from these 

 lands within the next four and one-half 

 logging seasons, leaving 5 per cent of 

 selected seed trees for the production of 

 a new stand. All tops and litter under 

 8 inches diameter resulting from the 

 prospective logging must be burned 

 and care taken in felling to avoid crush- 

 ing young growth. 



It has been supposed by many that 

 these conditions and others imposed 

 upon the lumbermen would militate 

 against the success of the sales, but 

 such was not the case. 



Over 300 sealed bids from 14 bidders 

 were opened at the first sale. About 

 213,000,000 feet of White and Norway 

 Pine were sold at an average of $7 per 

 thousand, the highest price heretofore 

 obtained for such timber in Minnesota 

 and at least $3 per thousand higher 

 than had been anticipated by the offi- 



