1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



245 



form of law for the protection of forests 

 from fires. 



President Walter Mulford, of Wind- 

 sor. 



Vice-presidents Henry Ferguson-, of 

 Hartford ; T. S. Gold, of West Corn- 

 wall ; Willis I. Twitchell, of Hartford. 



Secretary Everett S. Geer, of Hart- 

 ford. 



Corresponding secretary Miss Mary 

 Winslow, of Weatogue. 



Treasurer Alfred Spencer, Jr., of 

 Hartford. 



Auditor Appleton R. Hillyer, of 

 Hartford. 



Advisory board The above officers 

 and Major E. V. Preston, P. Henry 

 Woodward, John L. Denison, and Rev. 

 JohnT. Huntington, Hartford ; George 

 Griswold, Old Lyme ; Mrs. Jessie B. 

 Gerard, South Norwalk ; Dr. E. H. 

 Jenkins, Edward A. Bowers, and Alfred 

 Ackerman, New Haven ; E. K. Hub- 

 bard, Middletown ; Robert Scoville, Cha- 

 pinville. 



Additions to Thomas H. Means, en- 

 Reclamation gineer of soils, and 

 Service. Thomas F. J. McGuire, 



electrical expert, have 

 joined the Reclamation Service and are 

 detailed upon important work in the 

 West. Mr. Means, who was, until his 

 transfer, connected with the Bureau of 

 Soils, Department of Agriculture, was 

 in charge of the United States Soils Sur- 

 vey, and was particularly expert in alkali 

 problems and in reclaiming alkali lands. 

 Two years ago he made a trip to Egypt 

 to study reclamation matters there in re- 

 lation to our own questions, and is now 

 recognized as the foremost expert on 

 alkali soils in this country. His services 

 will be called on in the designing of plans 

 for establishing systems of drainage in 

 connection with irrigation works and 

 for making classifications of soils in the 

 sections to be reclaimed. His new 

 position will offer even a better field for 

 his work than his former one, and he 

 will have a better chance to make his 

 services valuable to the sections of coun- 

 try in which he works. 



Mr. McGuire, who is an expert in 

 electric installation, will assist in super- 



vising the placing of power plants at the 

 various reservoir and dam sites in the 

 West, such as the one contemplated at 

 the Tonto works in Arizona, where it is 

 proposed to develop electricity for gen- 

 eral power purposes, and particularly for 

 pumping, in connection with the distri- 

 bution of water. 



New Forest 

 Reserves. 



Four new forest reserves 

 have recently been cre- 

 ated by proclamation of 

 President Roosevelt. The entire area 

 represents an acreage of 245,920 in Utah 

 and South Dakota. On March 5 two 

 reserves were set aside in Butte county, 

 S. Dak., designated respectively the 

 Cave Hills Forest Reserve and the Slim 

 Buttes Forest Reserve. Captain Seth 

 Bullock, superintendent of the Black 

 Hills Forest Reserve, has been placed 

 in charge. On May 7 the Grantsville 

 Forest Reserve, in Utah, was estab- 

 lished, with an area of 68,960 acres, 

 and on May 26 an area of 95,440 acres 

 in the same state was reserved under 

 the name of the Salt Lake Forest Re- 

 serves. In addition to these changes 

 in the area of the government's forest 

 reserves, several reductions and addi- 

 tions have been made to existing re- 

 serves. The most important of these 

 have been : May 2, the Fish Lake For- 

 est Reserve (Utah), addition of 131,200 

 acres, making the present area 199,040 

 acres ; May 4, Yellowstone Forest Re- 

 serve (Montana and Wyoming), reduc- 

 tion of 518,600 acres, leaving present 

 area 7,810,600 acres; May 16, Battle- 

 ment Mesa Forest Reserve (Colorado), 

 reduction of 45,440 acres, leaving the 

 present area 807,560 acres; May 21, 

 White River Forest Reserve (Colorado) , 

 reduction of 259,040 acres, leaving pres- 

 ent area 970,880 acres. The total com- 

 bined area of the forest reserves is at 

 present approximately 62,700,000 acres. 



Examination 

 of Forests. 



Thus far in the season 

 Mr. Henry Gannett, 

 geographer of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, has ordered only 

 two parties into the field for the exami- 

 nation of forests and the classification 

 of lands. 



