FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



February 



This is a Figures of speech ever 



Bird. dear to the heart or 



chest of the orator are 

 mighty handy to the propagandist in 

 bringing the blind to see the great bene- 

 fits to come to mankind from a proper 

 acceptance of the policies of conservative 

 forest management and the reclamation 

 of our arid lands. ' ' Perpetuate the 

 Forests by Wise Use; ' "Annex Arid 

 America;" ' ' Save the Forests and Store 

 the Floods," and "Make the Desert 

 Bloom Like the Rose ' ' are slogans f a- 

 milia/ to all our readers. And the great 

 and beneficent work of " making two 

 blades of grass grow where only one 

 grew before ' ' has been glorified all the 

 way from the United States Senate to 

 the backwoods school-house. A new 

 figure was born the other day at Chey- 

 enne, Wyo., at an irrigation meeting. 

 A local orator, expatiating on the glo- 

 rious work of the Reclamation Service, 

 warming to his subject, exclaimed in rap- 

 turous tones, " What a wonderful thing 

 it is to be engaged in such a noble work, 

 making two drops of water flow where 

 only one flew before. ' ' 



Fleecing Engineer I. H. Taylor, 



Homesteaders, in charge of the Truckee 

 irrigation construction, 

 publishes the following warning state- 

 ment to people who are already being 

 fleeced of their homestead rights by 

 sharpers, on account of their ignorance 

 of the provisions of the National Irriga- 

 tion Act : 



'Actual and continuous residence on 

 the land is required and title can not be 

 gotten until all payments for water have 

 been made. 



' Homesteaders must take water from 

 the government irrigation system, and 

 before acquiring title must have at least 

 half of their land under cultivation. 



: ' Only the main canal from the 

 Truckee River to the Carson River is 

 now under construction. 



' Water for a small portion of the land 

 will be available in the spring of 1905, 

 but by far the greater part will have to 

 wait till 1906 or 1907 before water will 

 reach it. 



' Until water is at hand for its irriga- 

 tion no one can make a living upon 



these lands; but those filing in advance 

 of the arrival of the water will not on 

 that account be excused from residing 

 thereon. Actual bona fide residence is 

 required." 



While the above ruling is made espe- 

 cially for the Truckee River project, 

 there is not the slightest doubt that it 

 will apply to the government lands lying 

 under the proposed canals of the Gunni- 

 son tunnel project. 



Chief Engineer F. H. Newell said in 

 an interview in Denver recently : 



' ' It should be made generally known 

 that there will be no water available in 

 the Truckee district before 1 905 . Graft- 

 ers are rushing ignorant people there and 

 charging them from $50 to $100 for lo- 

 cating the land for them. This land is 

 absolutely worthless desert at the pres- 

 ent time and there is no way of making 

 a living on it. Homesteaders must live 

 on the land to make their entry good, 

 but it is impossible for them to live on 

 most of this land until water comes." 



Expert In pursuance of the pol- 



Forester for icy outlined by the for- 

 Wisconsin. estry bill passed last year 

 by the Wisconsin legisla- 

 ture, Mr. Edward M. Griffith, of the 

 Bureau of Forestry, has recently been 

 elected Superintendent of Forests in that 

 state at a salary of $2,500, the appoint- 

 ment to take effect at the beginning of 

 the present month. 



Mr. Griffith goes to his new work with 

 the full recommendation of his superiors 

 in the Bureau. Few of our young 

 American foresters have enjoyed broader 

 training in their profession than he. In 

 addition to courses at Phillips- Andover 

 Academy, the Sheffield Scientific School 

 at Yale, and Biltmore Forest School, he 

 has taken part in practical forest work 

 in Germany and the Philippine Islands, 

 and has had opportunity for extensive 

 travel and observation of forest methods 

 in Hawaii, India, and Ceylon. 

 ^ Both Mr. Griffith and the Wisconsin 

 Forest Commissioners are to be congrat- 

 ulated, the former upon an opportunity 

 for most valuable work and the latter 

 upon the fact that state politics has not 

 prevented their choice of a man trained 

 for the work to be done. 



