1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



447 



JOHN ELLIS FIELD, 



IN CHARGE OF IMPORTANT RECLAMATION PROJKCTS IN THE WEST. 



AN engineer in whom technical skill and administrative ability are combined to a high 

 degree is Mr John E. Field, of the U. S. Reclamation Service. He was born in Colorado 

 on May 13, 1867, and graduated from Yale with the degree of Ph B. in 1888. From 

 iSSS to 1893 he was engaged in the practice of mining, civil and hydraulic engineering in the 

 mining camps of Colorado. From 1888 to 1889 he was assayer and chemist for the Aspen 

 Public Ore Sampling Works in Denver, and served in a similar capacity-from 1890 to 1891 for 

 the Taylor and Brenton Sampling Works. He then engaged in civil and hydraulic engineering 

 practice until 1893, when he was appointed chief examiner of mineral surveys for the United 

 States surveyor-general of Colorado, serving in that capacity until 1899, when he became 

 assistant engineer on the board of public works at Denver. In 1901 Mr. Field was made 

 deputy state h}'draulic engineer of Colorado, and in 1903 was appointed an engineer in tin- 

 Reclamation Service. He is the author of \aripus bulletins published by the Unitrd States 

 Department of Agriculture, and at pnsent is directing the work in connection with several 

 important reclamation projects in Wyoming. 



