FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



Williams, Irvin C., Harrisburg, Pa.; 

 Forestry Academy and Pennsylva- 

 nia Forestry Association. 



Williams, Mrs. L. P., Minneapolis, 

 Minn. ; State of Minnesota. 



Williams, Hon. M. M., Little Falls, 

 Minn. ; State of Minnesota. 



Wilms, William, Chicago, 111. ; Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association. 



Wilson, H. M., Washington, D. C. ; 

 U. S. Geological Survey and Ameri- 

 can Society of Civil Engineers. 



Winchester, A. H., New Orleans, La. ; 

 Lumber Trade Journal. 



Winchester, Col. A. H., Buckhannon, 

 W. Va. ; State of West Virginia. 



Wirt, Geo. H., Harrisburg, Pa. ; For- 

 estry Academy and Pennsylvania 

 Forestry Association. 



Witten, J. W., Washington, D. C. ; 

 General Land Office. 



Wood, Richard, Philadelphia, Pa. ; 

 Pennsylvania Forestry Association. 



Woodruff, Geo. W., Washington, D. 

 C. ; Bureau of Forestry. 



Worden, F. E., Oshkosh,Wis. ; North- 

 western Hemlock Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



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Ziegler, E. A., Washington, D. C. ; 

 Salim Valley Telephone Co. 



CONFERENCE OF RECLAMATION 



ENGINEERS 



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Important Session of Engineers who Have the 

 Government's Irrigation Work in Charge 



D EALIZING the importance of the 

 task before the United States 

 Reclamation Service in their work of 

 directing the provisions of the Nation- 

 al Reclamation Act of June, 1902, 

 Chief Engineer Newell called a confer- 

 ence of the engineers comprising the 

 service, held in Washington January 

 3 to 14. The enormity of the task of 

 administering equably the provisions 

 of this Act, affecting immense areas of 

 now arid and semi-arid land, and in- 

 volving the expenditure of millions of 

 dollars by the Government, is directly 

 in charge of this body of engineers, 

 and the conference in Washington 

 the second of its kind was called in 

 order that, by discussion of various 

 phases of their work, and personal in- 

 tercourse, with a view of further cre- 

 ating an esprit de corps, the engineers 

 might be better equipped to cope with 

 the problems before them. 



The various subjects discussed in- 

 cluded, besides irrigation in recognized 

 relation to the arid lands, irrigation 

 ditch, reservoir, and dam construction, 

 water-laws and the distribution of 

 \vater, alkali, drainage, cement, con- 



crete, measurement of streams, hydro- 

 economics, etc. For convenience in 

 discussing details of work in various 

 localities and on various subjects, the 

 conference was organized in sections. 



The sessions on the opening day in- 

 cluded general conferences, with sub- 

 divisional meetings of hydrographers 

 and with the Committee on Water- 

 laws and Forms of Water Users' Asso- 

 ciations. Mr. Asa Phillips, engineer 

 of the Washington Sewer Department, 

 addressed the general assembly on the 

 concrete and cement constructive work 

 carried on by his department in that 

 city, and a brief address on the impor- 

 tance of the governmental reclamation 

 work in Montana was made by Hon. 

 Joseph M. Dixon, Representative in 

 Congress from that state. 



In the section meetings, the hydrog- 

 raphers discussed the limits of accu- 

 racy in reporting discharge measure- 

 ments, in constructing rating tables, 

 and in applying gage heights, intro- 

 duced by Mr. R. E. Horton, of New 

 York ; and methods of counting sec- 

 onds and revolutions in making low 



