1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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water which should be delivered are 

 important in order that the canals can 

 be designed of the proper capacity and 

 pumping plants be given the size and 

 power sufficient to supply the right 

 amount of water needed by the crops. 



On the same day, the Belle Fourche 

 project in South Dakota was outlined 

 to the general assembly by Mr. Ray- 

 mond F. Walter, who has the work in 

 charge. The chief engineer, Mr. New- 

 ell, in executive session with the super- 

 vising, consulting, and district engi- 

 neers and experts, discussed the broad 

 principles of construction and cost and 

 the relations which the co-ordinate 

 branches of the service bear to each 

 other. Discussion in detail of con- 

 structive work was entered into by the 

 committee on cement and concrete. 

 Computer J. C. Hoyt also discussed 

 the work of the computing section. 

 Stress was laid upon the vital corela- 

 tion of forestry and irrigation, and the 

 work of the Bureau of Forestry, by 

 Chief Engineer Newell. 



By invitation of Chairman Mondell, 

 the conference met the House Com- 

 mittee on Irrigation on Tuesday, and 

 discussion of the Klamath propect in 

 California and Oregon was undertak- 

 en, Mr. J. B. Lippincott, supervising 

 engineer, of California, leading. Con- 

 gressional action is necessary to divert 

 the waters which it is intended to use, 

 and the House Committee, which has 

 the bill under advisement, and which is 

 desirous of securing all available in- 

 formation, took advantage of the op- 

 portunity of securing all possible data 

 from the engineers in direct charge. 



Washington reclamation work was 

 discussed by Mr. T. A. Noble, and the 

 Shoshone project in Wyoming by Mr. 

 H. N. Savage, the former in the morn- 

 ing session, and the latter in the after- 

 noon. Two sections of the conference 

 the Committee on Water-laws and 

 Forms of Water Users' Associations, 

 and the Committee on Electric Power, 

 Development and Pumping convened 

 during this session, and discussed the 

 particular phases of the reclamation 

 work they represented. 



The entire board of engineers were 

 received by President Roosevelt on 

 Wednesday at 12:15, and the sessions 



on that day were given over principal- 

 ly to committee and section confer- 

 ences, there being no general assembly 

 until 3 130, when the photographic la- 

 boratory of the Survey was visited. 



Perhaps the most interesting ses- 

 sion of the conference occurred on 

 Thursday, when the North Platte 

 (Wyoming and Nebraska) and the 

 Pathfinder projects were discussed at 

 length by Mr. John E. Field, engineer 

 in charge; and details of the work in 

 Wyoming described by Mr. H. N. 

 Savage. The afternoon was devoted 

 to two committee conferences, with the 

 Committee on Methods of Reconnais- 

 sance and Survey, and the Committee 

 on Transportation. The latter com- 

 mittee was appointed to go into the 

 matter of railroad rates on the move- 

 ment of cement and supplies for recla- 

 mation work. In the evening, the con- 

 ference was tendered a reception by its 

 chief engineer, Mr. F. H. Newell, at 

 his home. 



On the evening of January 13, the 

 engineers met the employees of the 

 Survey at a smoker tendered them by 

 the Survey. Many distinguished pub- 

 lic men were present, and considerable 

 enthusiasm was aroused. The even- 

 ing's entertainment was purely social, 

 with songs, speeches, and talks by Sur- 

 vey employees and others. 



At the closing session of the confer- 

 ence on Saturday, Mr. J. J. Hill, presi- 

 dent of the Great Northern Railway, 

 addressed the engineers. Mr. Hill 

 spoke interestingly of the irrigation 

 work, its splendid progress under in- 

 dividual efforts and under the paternal 

 irrigation act, and eulogized the pro- 

 fession of engineering. By invitation, 

 Senator Bard, chairman of the Senate 

 Committee on Irrigation, the chief 

 engineer, and principal supervising 

 and constructing engineers appeared 

 before the committee and discussed 

 several bills of importance to the re- 

 clamation work. The rest of the day's 

 session was occupied in final closing 

 discussions of the objects assigned 

 committees and sections, and a general 

 summing up by Mr. Newell. 



The American Forest Congress, 

 which was in session during the first 

 week of the conference, was attended 



