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pie. This hall will be completed by of Gifford Pinchot, Forester, United 



October i, and will then be decorated States Department of Agriculture ; the 



and furnished in readiness for the ses- section devoted to Land and Water Laws 



sion of the Congress. will be in charge of George H. Maxwell, 



A statement has just been issued show- executive chairman of The National Ir- 



ing that $15,000 will be spent in working rigation Association; Engineering and 



up the Congress and providing for en- Mechanics, under direction of F. H. 



tertaining the delegates attending it. Newell, chief of the United States Rec- 



The officers of this Congress are Hon. lamation Service ; Climatology, Willis 

 W. A. Clark, of Montana, president ; L>. Moore, chief of the United States 

 L. W. Shurtliff , of Ogden, Utah, first Weather Bureau, United States Depart- 

 vice-president; W. C. Johnson, Denver, ment of Agriculture. 

 Colorado, second vice-president ; John Committee on arrangements at El 

 Hall, Lampasas Springs, Texas, third Paso for the Congress are Hon. W. W. 

 vice-president; H. B. Maxson, Reno, Turney, chairman; Alfred Courchesne, 

 Nevada, secretary ; C. B. Boothe, of J. R. Harper, Francisco Mallen, John 

 Los Angeles, chairman of executive W. Fisher, E. Kohlberg, E. C. Pew, 

 committee, and Guy E. Mitchell, of Sr., and A. W. Gifford, secretary. 

 Washington, D. C., chairman of press The entertainment of the visiting dele- 

 committee, gates to the Congress is being thoroughly 



In order to facilitate the preparations planned by the people of El Paso. There 



for the Congress and to insure a thor- will be a carload of fruits and wine for 



oughly interesting program and the at- consumption by the delegates, a recep- 



tendance of prominent workers in every tion and ball, a barbecue smoker for 



line of endeavor closely related to irri- the men, a bull fight in Juarez, Mexico, 



gation, the program has been divided just across the Rio Grande River ; a 



into sections. roping contest and broncho riding by 



These sections are Foresty, Land and cowboys, trip to El Paso smelter, the 



Water Laws. Irrigation Engineering and third largest in the United States; In- 



Mechanics, Production by Irrigation, and dian sports by Mescalaro, Apaches, and 



Climatology. other tribes, and possibly a miners' 



The section of Forestry is in charge drilling contest. 



A VALUABLE PHILIPPINE CABINET WOOD. 



A STRIKING DISPLAY OF NARRA WOOD IN THE 

 PHILIPPINE FOREST EXHIBIT AT ST. LOUIS. 



BY 



EBER C. SMITH. 



A VISIT to the Forestry Building government of the Philippine Islands, 



of the Philippine Exhibit at the Some idea can be formed of its extent 



St. Louis Exposition would be worth and magnitude from the fact that it 



the while of any one attending the fair, contains more than 650 different varie- 



and particularly those interested in lum- ties of woods and weighs more than 



bering and the fine-woods industry. 2,500 tons. 



The gathering of this exhibit and The extensive forests of our new pos- 



the transportation of the same to St. sessions have practically never been 



Louis constituted one of the principal touched by the woodman's ax, and to- 



items of cost, which aggregated over a day furnishes an excellent opportunity 



million dollars, nearly all of which was for lumbermen to engage in a sure and 



paid for out of the treasury of the civil lucrative business. 



