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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



November 



ened by a large fire in Cajon Pass, New Jersey: A forest fire broke 

 which was started by a careless smok- out in the heavy pine timber belt be- 

 er and fanned into destructiveness by tween May's Landing and English 

 a fierce wind. A loss estimated at Creek on October n, and a blaze of 

 over $5,000 was entailed by the loss considerable magnitude was reported 

 of the Governmental Forestry Exper- on October 29, in the Blue Ridge 

 iment Station in Santa Monica Canon. Mountains, 20 miles east of Wind 

 This same fire was the cause of consid- Gap. Newspapers state that the lat- 

 erable apprehension to the residents of ter fire burned over 10,000 acres. 

 Santa Monica, owing to its close prox- Georgia : An area of about two 

 imity, and some outlying property was hundred acres was laid waste by a for- 

 laid waste. In Butte County, near est fi re j ust beyond Kinder Lou, which 

 Stirling City, a forest fire did consid- started from an engine spark, 

 erable damage over an area of tim- West Virginia: The long-contin- 

 berland owned by the Diamond ue d drought in this State has ren- 

 Match Company. In the vicinity of dered WO( f dland inflammable, and 

 ^scondido, flames swept up Aliso Qn Qctober jg a foregt fir nQt oyer a 



mile from Parkersburg caused consid- 

 erable apprehension to residents. 



on and raged in the hills south of 

 Bernardo. 

 Oregon : 



Timber men who have 



visited Columbia County, report that Pennsylvania: An engine spark ig- 

 the forest fires which have been de- nited the grass and undergrowth in 

 vastating that section for the last six bottom land near Newcastle Junction 

 weeks have caused the destruction of on October 3 and inflicted minor 

 timber worth $8,000,000. Very little damage to timber 

 damage has been done by the fire dur- Washington . Small fires in Pierce, 

 ing the last thirty days, a much-needed .'.,. \ , , 

 rahi having extinguished those still Pacific, and Thurston counties are re- 

 burning. On October 4 a forest fire P orted - In the last named jt 1S daim - 

 in Grant's Pass was reported to have ed that the blaze was started by a man 

 gained headway, but it is not thought who set a fire without a permit, and 

 to be of serious consequence. was fined for the offense. 



Reclamation Survey of Nebraska 



A Study of its Water and Land Re- 

 sources by the Government Engineers 



A RECONNAISSANCE survey 

 *"* on the Niobrara and Snake riv- 

 ers in Nebraska was recently made by 

 Mr. J. C. Stevens, Assistant Engineer 

 in the U. S. Reclamation Service, the 

 purpose of the survey being to deter- 

 mine approximately the fall of these 

 rivers, obtain gaugings of the rivers 

 at frequent intervals, and of their 

 principal tributaries, and to note and 

 examine any reclamation project 

 which might present itself. 



The country traversed embraced the 

 lands lying contiguous to the Niobrara 



River between the 24th and 45th 

 range lines, in townships 30 to 34, in- 

 clusive, and the lands contiguous to 

 the Snake River in townships 31 and 

 32, range 30, and township 30 in rang- 

 es 31 and 32, also a territory known as 

 [he Lake Country, in townships 30, 31, 

 32, 33, and 34, ranges 23, 24, 25, 26, 

 and 27, covering a total distance of 

 351.6 miles. 



NIOBRARA RIVER. 



The drainage area of this river con- 

 sists largely of sand hills, resulting 

 in a marked constancy in the flow of 



