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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



July 



available for canals, public water sys- 

 tems, and water power. The conditions 

 of streams in more than fifty places in 

 the state is regularly reported. 



The work has gradually grown until 

 there is at present hardly a section of 

 the state in which some river is not sys- 

 tematically measured. The list includes 

 Chemung, Allegheny, Susquehanna, 

 Chenango, Catskill, Delaware, Hud- 

 son, Mohawk, Saranac, Oswegatchie, 

 Genesee, .Oneida, Seneca, Oswego, and 

 Black rivers, and their most important 

 branches. The developed water power 

 of these streams amounts to nearly 

 300,000 horse power, and they afford 

 an almost unlimited amount of unde- 

 veloped power. 



Mr. Robert E. Horton,hydrographer, 

 of Utica, N. Y., has charge of the work. 



Reclamation 

 Engineers. 



From September 15 to 

 18, 1903, a conference 

 of the engineers of the 

 Reclamation Service was held at Ogden, 

 Utah. At the time of this meeting the 

 Reclamation Service had been in active 

 operation for over a year and projects 

 in each state had reached a point at which 

 their relative merits demanded considera- 

 tion. It was therefore deemed advisable 

 to bring the principal engineers together, 

 in order to discuss somewhat informally 

 the methods and results of work. The 

 eleventh irrigation congress was in ses- 

 sion then at Ogden, and delegates were 

 in attendance from the thirteen states 

 and three territories named in the re- 

 clamation law, as well as from Texas 

 and the country farther east. The 

 engineers of the Reclamation Service 

 were thus enabled to meet public men 

 and others who are interested in the 

 work of irrigation and to exchange 

 views freely with them. The proceed- 

 ings of this conference of reclamation 

 engineers, compiled by Mr. F. H. 

 Newell, chief engineer, have been re- 

 cently published by the United States 

 Geological Survey as No. 93 of its series 

 of Water Supply and Irrigation Papers, 

 a volume of about 350 pages filled with 

 valuable data. Besides the purely tech- 

 nical discussions and addresses, the paper 

 includes several interesting speeches 



made to the engineers by various gov- 

 ernors, senators, and other prominent 

 people. It is published for gratuitous 

 distribution, and may be obtained by 

 application to the Director of the United 

 States Geological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C. 



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Forest Reserve David H. Hunsecker, 

 Personals. who has been employed 



as a first-class ranger 

 on the Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve, 

 has resigned. 



Charles F. Cooley has been appointed 

 forest supervisor of the Grantsville For- 

 est Reserve, recently created. 



Three additional rangers have been 

 appointed to serve on the Fish Lake 

 (Utah) Forest Reserve under Forest 

 Supervisor C. D. Balle. Considerable 

 territory has been recently added to this 

 reserve. 



The headquarters of the supervisor 

 of the Wichita Forest Reserve in Okla- 

 homa has been changed from Orana to 

 Cache. 



Supervisor R. C. McClure has been 

 off duty attending his daughter, who is 

 seriously ill at Santa Fe, New Mexico. 



Forest Ranger John M. Simpson has 

 been transferred from the Pikes Peak 

 Forest Reserve to serve as first-class 

 ranger on the Pecos River Forest Re- 

 serve, New Mexico. 



Thomas F. Meagher, who has been 

 serving as forest ranger on the Gila 

 River Forest Reserve, has been trans- 

 ferred to the Santa Catalina Forest Re- 

 serve and promoted to forest supervisor 

 of the latter reserve. 



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Intensified A recent editorial in the 



Farming. San Francisco Chronicle 



on ' ' Intensified Farm- 

 ing ' ' is worth reprinting. It calls at- 

 tention to a matter that deserves the 

 close attention of the farmer in humid 

 areas as well as the regions where irri- 

 gation is practiced. 



' ' There is something foreshadowing 

 the future in a little story that has come 

 from Fort Pierre recently. It tells of 

 old ranchers in that region who are 

 farming or gardening in patches of from 

 five to seventy-five acres this year. 



