1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



197 



' ' Commercial Fruit and Vegetable 

 Growing with Irrigation," Hon. J. H. 

 Crowley, State Senator, Rocky Ford, 

 Colorado ; ' ' The Reclamation Law and 

 its Application," M. C. Hinderlider, 

 engineer, U. S. Geological Survey ; 

 "Insect Enemies of Kansas Trees," 

 Prof. E. A. Popenoe, Chair of Entomol- 

 ogy, Kansas State Agricultural College ; 

 " Forestry in its Relation to Climate," 

 Prof. I. D. Graham, associate editor of 

 Kansas Farmer ; ' ' What I Know About 

 Trees, ' ' Joseph Mellechor, Ford county; 

 " Woodlot for the Kansas Farmer," 

 R. S. Kellogg, Bureau of Forestry. 



Michigan Wesley Bradfield, a stu- 



Appoints dent of forestry in the 



State Forester, senior class of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, has 

 been appointed forester by the Michigan 

 State Forestry Commission. He will 

 serve on the state forest reserve in Ros- 

 common county. Fifty thousand white 

 pine seedlings have been purchased and 

 will be set out on the reserve this spring ; 

 and in addition seed will be sown to fur- 

 nish the state with its own plants after 

 this year and next. 



General 



Reclamation 



Notes. 



Engineer C. H. Fitch 

 has been directed by the 

 Chief Engineer of the 

 Reclamation Service to 

 take charge of the work of that bureau 

 in South Dakota and adjacent areas. 

 The most important piece of work under 

 Mr. Fitch's charge this season will be 

 the completion of the surveys and the 

 beginning of construction, if found fea- 

 sible, on the Bellefourche project. 



Mr. Raymond F. Walter will be con- 

 tinued in charge of the investigation 

 and surveys on this project, occupying 

 a position analogous to that of con- 

 structing engineer. Mr. Fitch will 

 have general supervision also of surveys 

 and reconnaissance on the Big Horn 

 project on Crow Indian Reservation, 

 on the Fort Buford project in North 

 Dakota, preliminary surveys on the 

 Bitterroot project, the Lake Basin pro- 

 ject, the Sun River project in Montana, 

 and the surveys of New Fork and Green 

 River project in Wyoming. 



A competent engineer will be sent 

 soon into western Montana to make a 

 general examination of the opportunities 

 of reclamation, particularly of the char- 

 acter of land ownership, and ascertain 

 the views of the persons owning re- 

 claimable lands regarding the construc- 

 tion of an irrigation work thereon by 

 the government. 



With the passage of the Crow Indian 

 bill the Reclamation Service will start 

 a field party at work making a thorough 

 investigation of the possibility and fea- 

 sibility of a comprehensive irrigation 

 system for the lands thrown open for 

 settlement on this reservation. 



Citizens in the Lower Yellowstone 

 valley are showing commendable inter- 

 est in the plans of the government for 

 the construction of what is known as 

 the Fort Buford irrigation project. 

 Numerous letters have been received 

 from organizations and citizens in the 

 valley urging upon the government the 

 continuance of its work in that section, 

 and indicating that the landowners are 

 generally approving the project and will 

 cooperate with the government in every 

 way to insure its success. 



Congressman Dixon has presented 

 numerous petitions and in person has 

 urged the continuance of the work. 

 The Northern Pacific Railroad Com- 

 pany, which owns some land in this 

 valley, has agreed to cooperate with the 

 government to the fullest extent, and 

 will dispose of such tracts as are under 

 the proposed canal, under regulations 

 of the Reclamation Act, to bonafide set- 

 tlers only. 



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Agricultural In the creation of forest 

 Land in Forest reserves it frequently 

 Reserves. happens that small parks 



or open valleys in the 

 mountains are included, and that these 

 are desired by individuals for stock 

 ranches, or for cutting wild hay, or for 

 similar agricultural purposes. The ar- 

 gument is made that such agricultural 

 lands should be excluded from the forest 

 reserves, and that the boundaries should 

 be drawn along the narrow valleys ex- 

 tending up into the mountains. 



As a general proposition, it is agreed 

 that agricultural lands should be ex- 



