Forestry and Irrigation. 



VOL. X. 



AUGUST, 1904. 



No. 8. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



Irrigation It has just been offi- 



Congress. cially announced by the 



committee on arrange- 

 ments that the Twelfth National Irri- 

 gation Congress will be held at El Paso, 

 Texas, November 15-18. Further par- 

 ticulars of this interesting event are 

 published on page 380 of this issue. 



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State Massachusetts now has 



Forestry in a state forest service au- 

 Massachusetts. thorized by law. The 

 law went into effect July 

 i , and the official to be known as the 

 state forester was appointed by the 

 governor. The law provides that the 

 incumbent must be a trained forester 

 with a technical education. It shall 

 be his duty to promote the perpetuation, 

 extension, and proper management of 

 the forest lands of the state, both pub- 

 lic and private. He shall also give a 

 course of instruction to the students of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 on the art and science of forestry. The 

 salary of the state forester is $2,000 a 

 year, and the appropriation for carry- 

 ing on the work during the present 

 year is $5,000. 



Governor Bates has appointed to the 

 position of state forester Mr. Alfred 

 Akerman. Mr. Akerman is the son 

 of former Attorney General Amos T. 

 Akerman, of Cartersville, Georgia. He 

 is a graduate of the University of 

 Georgia, and later studied forestry at 

 the Yale Forest School and at the Uni- 

 versity of Tubingen, Germany. He 

 has served a year as assistant professor 

 of forestry at the Yale Forest School, 

 and has also been a field assistant in the 

 Bureau of Forestry. Mr. Akerman is 

 well equipped for his work, both from 

 the standpoint of technical education 

 and practical experience in forest work. 



Constructing An examination for con- 

 Engineer structing engineer under 

 Examination, the Reclamation Service 

 was held by the Civil 

 Service Commission April i, 1904. The 

 compensation offered was from $3,600 

 to $4,800 per annum. About 230 engi- 

 neers entered papers for this position. 

 These papers were examined and marked 

 quite severely, the average marking be- 

 ing between 65 and 75 per cent. Out 

 of the 230 papers 60 were given a rating 

 higher than 70 per cent. 



Appointments have been offered to 

 the three men who stood highest on this 

 list, namely, Thomas F. Richardson, of 

 Clinton, Mass. ; Chas. E. Wells, Clin- 

 ton, Mass., and Alexander E Kastl, of 

 Denver, Colo. This practically closes 

 the matter, although the list of eligible* 

 can under existing practice be utilized 

 by various branches of the government 

 service who may desire to select men 

 from it for other positions. 



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Ontario Guards The Commissioner of 

 Against Fire. Crown Lands has just 

 issued a code of very 

 strict regulations for the observance of 

 all persons exploring, prospecting, hunt- 

 ing, or pleasure-seeking on the now ex- 

 tensive forest reserves of Ontario. They 

 will be rigorously enforced, and are as 

 follows : 



"Every person entering on this re- 

 serve shall, when requested to do so by 

 the superintendent or rangers, furnish 

 his name, address, proposed duration of 

 his stay, parts of reserve he intends to 

 visit, and such other information as the 

 superintendent or rangers may require. 



" No person shall prospect for min- 

 erals in any forest reserve except by 

 authority of a permit in that behalf is- 

 sued by the Commissioner of Crown 



