1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



155 



which, if unrestrained, will lead to the 

 exhaustion of the supply. It is partic- 

 ularly desirable that the relation be- 

 tween the actual inflow and the actual 

 output should be determined. Any in- 

 crease in the amount of the ground 

 waters absorbed by the diversion of 

 the streams over gravel beds in mid- 

 winter would be of marked benefit by 

 increasing the water supply available 

 from the wells in midsummer. 



Big Working Mr. Frederick Weyer- 

 Plans. haeuser, president of the 



Weyerhaeuser Timber 

 Company, has signed an agreement 

 with the Bureau of Forestry by which 

 the Bureau agrees to prepare working 

 plans for the conservative management 

 of about 1,300,000 acres of the com- 

 pany's timber lands in Washington. 



The Northern Pacific Railway Com- 

 pany has also requested that the Bureau 

 of Forestry prepare working plans for 

 its enormous timber land holdings in 

 Washington and Idaho. 



The timber lands of the Weyerhaeuser 

 and the Northern Pacific Companies are 

 the most extensive privately owned 

 tracts of land for which the Bureau of 

 Forestry has ever been asked to prepare 

 working plans. The field w 7 ork will 

 begin next summer. How long it will 

 continue before figures enough are se- 

 cured on which to base plans intelli- 

 gently it is impossible at present to 

 state. The task of putting all these 

 lands under careful management is of 

 great magnitude, and only one familiar 

 with the nature of the forests of the 

 Northwest can appreciate its difficulties. 

 But great as these difficulties are, the 

 importance and value of the work, once 

 accomplished, far outweigh them. It 

 is another proof of the profound interest 

 and confidence which the West has 

 come to feel in the practical results of 

 forestry that the two greatest land- 

 holding companies of the Pacific coast 

 and Rocky Mountain States, the one 

 representative of the lumber, the other 

 of the railroad interests of that country, 

 should have called on the Bureau of 

 Forestry for expert advice in managing 

 their lands. The main timber supply 



of the United States is contained in the 

 Northwestern States, and the great 

 advances which forestry has made in 

 that part of the country must be re- 

 garded everywhere as of general benefit. 



The The following is the text 



Agreement, of the agreement under 

 which the Bureau of For- 

 estry is to prepare working plans for 

 the Weyerhaeuser Company: 



The Department of Agriculture of 

 the United States and Weyerhaeuser 

 Timber Company of St. Paul, county 

 of Ramsey, State of Minnesota, mu- 

 tually agree together as follows : 



1. The Department of Agriculture, 

 in pursuance of investigations in for- 

 estry and in order to disseminate a 

 knowledge of improved ways of hand- 

 ling forest lands, shall, after personal 

 study on the ground by its agent or 

 agents, prepare a plan for harvesting 

 the forest crop and reproducing the 

 forest on the land of the said Weyer- 

 haeuser Timber Company, situated and 

 described as follows: 1,300,000 acres, 

 more or less, State of Washington. 



2. The said plan shall be prepared 

 for the purpose of promoting and in- 

 creasing the present value and useful- 

 ness of the said land to its owner, and 

 to perpetuate and improve the forest 

 upon it. 



3. Upon the completion of the said 

 plan and its acceptance by the said 

 Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, the 

 Department of Agriculture shall super- 

 vise the execution thereof so far as may 

 be necessary. 



4. The cost of executing the provis- 

 ions of this agreement shall be paid as 

 follows: 



(a*) The salaries of all the employes 

 of the Department of Agriculture en- 

 gaged in fulfilling this agreement shall 

 be paid by the department. 



(<$) A preliminary visit of inspection, 

 if required, shall be wholly at the 

 charge of the department. 



(c) Actual and necessary expenses 

 for traveling and subsistence of the 

 agent or agents of the department work- 

 ing under this agreement, except as pro- 

 vided in the foregoing paragraph (d), 



