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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



December 



Company ; "Is Forestry Practicable in 

 the Northwest?" Victor H. Beckman, 

 editor Pacific Lumber Trade Journal; 

 "Importance of Forestry to Wodwork- 

 ing Industries;" "Our Pacific Coast 

 Forests and Lumbering as Differing 

 from Other Forests," Col. George P. 

 Emerson; "Rise in Value of Stump- 

 age," R. A. Long, president Southern 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association ; 

 "Opportunities for Lumbering in the 

 Philippines," Capt. Geo. P. Ahern, 

 chief of Forestry Bureau at Manila. 



AFTERNOON MEETING. 



In the afternoon the "Importance 

 of the Public Forest Lands to Graz- 

 ing" will be discussed. Presidents of 

 Live Stock Associations, men of large 

 experience in grazing, and those who 

 have made a special study of grazing 

 in the forest reserves will address the 

 congress. The program for this ses- 

 sion as far as arranged at the time of 

 going to press is as follows : 



"The Demand of the Grazing Inter- 

 estes for the Use of the Reserves in 

 Wyoming," Senator Francis E. War- 

 ren, of Wyoming ; "The Range Ques- 

 tion in Utah," Senator Reed Smoot ; 

 "Practical Results of the Regulation 

 of Grazing in the Forest Reserves," 

 Mr. A. F. Potter, Bureau of Forestry ; 

 'Sheep Grazing in the Reserves, from 

 a Layman's Standpoint," Prof. L. H. 

 Pammel,Ames, Iowa; "The Protection 

 of Home Builders in the Regulation of 

 Grazing on the Forest Reserves," E. S. 

 Gosney, president Arizona Woolgrow- 

 ers' Association, Flagstaff, Ariz. 



Mr. Geo. H. Maxwell, executive 



chairman of the National Irrigation 



Association, will address this session. 



THURSDAY, JANUARY 5. 



MORNJNG SESSION. 



Thursday morning the congress will 

 consider "Forestry in Relation to Rail- 

 road Supplies.' The presidents and 

 engineers of some of the largest rail- 

 roads in the United States will be the 

 chief speakers at this session. They 

 will discuss the tremendous demands 

 of the railroads upon the forests for 

 ties and other timber and consider 

 means of solving this increasingly se- 

 rious problem. Officials of the Bureau 



of Forestry will tell what is being done 

 in the way of extending the life of 

 timber by preservative treatment. 



The subjects of some of the ad- 

 dresses at this session are: "The Use 

 of Timber by Railroads; Will It In- 

 crease or Decline?" "Progress in the 

 Treatment of Ties to Prolong Dura- 

 bility;" "What Information Is Most 

 Needed by Railroads in Regard to 

 Timber Resources?" "Is It Practicable 

 for Railroads to Hold in Reserve Tim- 

 ber Lands for Future Supplies?" 



There will be a notable list of speak- 

 ers at this session, including Mr. Jas. 

 J. Hill, Mr. Marvin Hughitt, Mr. 

 Howard Elliott, Mr. Thos. Cooper, Dr. 

 Hermann von Schrenk, Mr. Eberlein, 

 Mr. C. E. Wantland, Mr. Kruttschnitt, 

 Mr. Bangs, Mr. Barclay, Thos. L. 

 Hodge, Mr. Gushing, Mr. B. L. Win- 

 chell, Mr. Samuel Spencer, Gen. Chas. 

 F. Manderson. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON. 



Thursday afternoon there will be a 

 popular meeting at the Lafayette 

 Theater, admission by ticket. Presi- 

 dent Rosevelt, M. Jusserand, the 

 French Ambassador; United States 

 Senators and Representatives especi- 

 ally conversant with forestry, leading 

 railroad men, lumbermen, and graz- 

 ing men, and others prominent in na- 

 tional life will address this meeting. 



The program as now outlined for 

 this meeting includes the following ad- 

 dresses : "The Forest in the Life of a 

 Nation," President Theodore Roose- 

 velt ; "The Forest Policy of France," 

 Ambassador Jusserand; "Dependence 

 of the Business Interests Upon the 

 Forests," Howard Elliott, president of 

 Northern Pacific Railroad ; 'The Inter- 

 est of Congress in Forestry," Redfield 

 Proctor, United States Senator from 

 Vermont; "The Lumbering Interests 

 and the Forests," R. L. McCormack, 

 secretary Weyerhaueser Lumber Com- 

 pany ; "The Forest, a Resource of the 

 South," F. McL. Simmons, United 

 States Senator from North Carolina; 

 "Attitude of Educational Institutions 

 Toward Forestry," B. L. Wiggins, 

 vice chancellor University of the 

 South ; "Importance of the Forest in 



