1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



547 



R. Hall, who is in charge of the hy- 

 drographic work in that area, has been 

 directed to investigate the conditions 

 at Epes Landing, Alabama, and to 

 establish a gaging station at that 

 point if conditions are favorable. A 

 gaging station is now maintained by 

 the Survey at Columbus, Miss., while 



National The report of Captain 



Notes Geor e F ' Hamilton, 



Ninth Cavalry, super- 

 intendent of Sequoia and General 

 Grant national parks, was made pub- 

 lic today. He recommends that the 

 Government acquire the ownership of 

 every foot of patented lands in both 



Hon. Redfield Proctor, Uuited States Senator from Vermont, and Chairman 

 of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. 



two stations are located on the Black 

 Warrior above Demopolis. 



It is believed that the data obtained 

 by these geologic and hydrographic 

 surveys of the year will furnish infor- 

 mation of great value to those inter- 

 ested in the development of that re- 

 gion. 



parks, and also of that part of Mineral 

 King road within the limits of Sequoia 

 Park. There is a group of twenty par- 

 ticularly fine Sequoia trees on the pat- 

 ented land near Sierra Camp which 

 Captain Hamilton urges should be ac- 

 quired by the Government without de- 

 lav. 



