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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



In line with the channel of Bear 

 Creek, as it is about to emerge from the 

 sand hills, is a small body of water 

 known as Clear Lake. An investiga- 

 tion of this lake, looking to its useful- 

 ness to the water users on the south 

 side of the Arkansas River, was made. 

 A hydrographic map was made and a 

 test well, 70 feet deep, sunk in the 

 bottom of the lake. Its waters were 

 found to be lower than the river, and 

 its bottom is composed of about 50 feet 

 of black mud. 



Test borings and underflow measure- 

 ments in the rock narrows of the Ar- 

 kansas, above Lakin, were made, and 

 there are indications that a rock floor 

 extends across the channel at this point. 

 The work on the Arkansas has been 

 full of interest and has been successfully 

 carried on in spite of the constant 

 troublesome floods which made it ex- 

 tremely difficult. 



Withdrawn In compliance with the 

 for Yakima recommendation of the 

 Project. acting Director of the 



U. S. Geological Survey, 

 the Secretary of the Interior has tem- 

 porarily withdrawn from any form of 

 disposition whatever the following de- 

 scribed lands, except any tracts the title 

 to which has passed out of the United 

 States, lying partly in surveyed and 

 partly in unsurveyed land in Yakima 

 county, State of Washington, surround- 

 ing Lakes Clealum, Kachess, and Kee- 

 chelus. These lands are temporarily 

 withdrawn from entry for irrigation 

 works in connection with the proposed 

 Yakima project. 



Clealum Reset voir Site. Township 

 20 north, range 14 east, sections 2, 3, 

 4, 10, n, and 12. A strip of land one- 

 half mile wide, 7^ miles long, extend- 

 ing on the west side of Lake Clealum 

 and Clealum River in a northerly direc- 

 tion from the north line of township 20. 



A strip of land one-half mile wide, 

 8 miles long, extending along the east 

 bank of Clealum Lake and Clealum 

 River, extending from the north ' line 

 of township 20 in a northerly direction. 



A'achess Reservoir Site. A strip of 

 land one-half mile wide, 12 miles long, 



extending on the west bank of Kachess 

 Lake, Little Kachess Lake, and the 

 main streams flowing into the northerly 

 end of Little Kachess Lake and between 

 Little Kachess Lake and Kachess Lake, 

 said strip of land extending from the 

 north line of township 20 north in a 

 northerly direction a distance of 12 

 miles. 



A strip of land one-half mile wide, 

 12 miles long, extending along the east 

 bank of Kachess Lake, Little Kachess 

 Lake, the river flowing between Kachess 

 Lake and Little Kachess Lake, and the 

 river flowing into the north end of Little 

 Kachess Lake, said strip of land extend- 

 ing 12 miles in- a northerly direction 

 from the north line of township 20 north, 

 said land being unsurveyed. 



Keechelus Reservoir Site. A strip of 

 land one-half mile wide, 4^ miles long, 

 extending along the west bank of Kee- 

 chelus Lake. 



A strip of land i mile wide, i mile 

 long, extending along the west bank of 

 Yakima River and south of the strip 

 of land hereinabove described. 



A strip of land i mile wide, 2^ miles 

 long, extending along the west bank of 

 Gold Creek north of Keechelus Lake. 



A strip of land one-half 4 mile wide, 

 3^2 miles long, extending along the 

 east bank of Keechelus Lake. 



A strip of land one-half mile wide, 

 i mile long, along the east bank of 

 Yakima River, adjoining the above-de- 

 scribed strip of land on the south and 

 east. 



A strip of land one-half mile wide, 

 3 miles long, extending along the east 

 bank of Gold Creek north of Lake Kee- 

 chelus, all of said land being on un- 

 surveyed ground. 



American During the sessions of 



Mining the American Mining 



Congress. Congress, held at Port- 



land, Oregon, during 

 the latter part of August, addresses 

 were made by Mr. Newell and Mr. 

 Pinchot, of the Public Lands Commis- 

 sion. The following resolutions were 

 adopted : 



' ' Resolved, That the American Min- 

 ing Congress heartily favors the con- 



