1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



199 



wild hay irrigated in the mountains, 

 there is lost the higher-priced product of 

 an acre of far better land in the valley. 



This condition is being gradually rec- 

 ognized, and less weight is given to the 

 cry of those who would exclude all agri- 

 cultural lands from the forest reserves. 

 The streams of the arid region have 

 far greater value in the development of 

 the low-lying lands in the broad valleys 

 at the foot of the mountains, and their 

 waters should be conserved in every pos- 

 sible way, not merely to protect the 

 prior rights, but because such lands have 

 greater economic value to the whole 

 country. 



The officers in charge of the designa- 

 tion of boundaries of forest reserves 

 must bear in mind these conditions and 

 give less heed to the demands for exclu- 

 sion of these high agricultural lands, if 

 by so doing they will jeopardize the 

 rights and needs of the better lands at 

 the foot of the mountains. 



Selecting The public has only just 



Supervising begun to appreciate the 

 Engineers. stupendous character of 



the work of the Recla- 

 mation Service in the construction of 

 some of the largest dams and canals in 

 the world. Difficult problems of con- 

 struction confront the engineers, prob- 

 lems involving new and unsolved ques- 

 tions and presenting physical features 

 as yet little understood. 



Manifestly only engineers of broad 

 training and wide experience in actual 

 construction in the West are competent 

 to supervise and direct these great works. 

 The selection of the supervising engi- 

 neers of the service, whose entire atten- 

 tion must be devoted to the important 

 work of construction, is being made 

 with particular care, after full considera- 

 tion of all the requirements. These 

 engineers must supervise the district en- 

 gineers and see to it that each is provided 

 with necessary advice and assistance 

 from the consulting engineers. It is 

 appreciated that no man could cover the 

 whole ground and do justice to the im- 

 portant work, and therefore a number 

 of supervising engineers are employed, 

 the territory of each being designated 



in accordance with the needs of the 

 service. 



For California and adjacent areas Mr. 

 J. B. Lippincott, of Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia, is the supervising engineer. He 

 has had wide experience in matters per- 

 taining to planning and the construction 

 of systems of water supply, and is thor- 

 oughly familiar with the conditions pre- 

 vailing upon the Pacific coast, having 

 been consulting engineer in a number of 

 important projects. 



For the Northwest in general the 

 supervising engineer is Mr. Hiram N. 

 Savage, formerly of southern California. 

 Mr. Savage has had to do with the con- 

 struction of the largest dams built for 

 water storage for irrigation in the United 

 States. 



For Arizona and adjacent areas the 

 supervising engineer is Mr. Arthur P. 

 Davis, whose name is familiar through- 

 out the West. Mr. Davis designed the 

 principal works for the great storage 

 reservoir on Salt River, Arizona, rank- 

 ing among the foremost of such works 

 in the world. 



Other supervising engineers are being 

 provided as necessity arises, the sphere 

 of control of each being adjusted so that 

 no one man may be overloaded with the 

 engineering details. 



The various engineers and assistants 

 are selected and assigned to duty in 

 accordance with their skill and experi- 

 ence, and after careful study of the 

 necessity for each man given by the 

 supervising and consulting engineers. 

 Great care is taken to see that no more 

 men are employed in the Reclamation 

 Service than are actually needed for 

 present examination and for future con- 

 struction. 



By providing these safeguards and 

 distributing the responsibilities among 

 well-known and efficient engineers, it is 

 believed that the deserved confidence of 

 the people and of Congress can be re- 

 tained and the best results secured at 

 the least possible outlay. Chief Engi- 

 neer Newell's care along this line is 

 typical of his handling of the reclama- 

 tion work from its inception. The re- 

 sult is that the work has gone forward 

 rapidly and effectively, thereby disap- 

 pointing the various critics who at the 



