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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



on different occasions, when papers 

 were presented which had particular 

 reference to irrigation. The close re- 

 lation existing between the forest and 

 the water supply being recognized, 

 several of the engineers were speakers 

 at the Forest Congress, and at such 

 times nearly the entire conference was 

 in attendance, and particularly when 

 Mr. Newell, Mr. A. P. Davis, Mr. 

 Morris Bien, Mr. A. L. Fellows, and 

 Mr. J. B. Lippincott delivered their re- 

 spective addresses. 



The value of the conference to the 

 engineers of the Reclamation Service 

 will be incalculable. The old adage 

 that two heads are better than one is 

 also applicable where there is more 

 than one head to be helped, and more 

 than two to offer suggestions and as- 

 sistance. Every minute detail of the 

 governmental reclamation work was 

 gone over and discussed thoroughly, 

 and the importance and value to the 

 cause of irrigation in the conferences 

 with the House and Senate committees 

 on irrigation is significant. It shows 

 the interest of the legislative bodies in 

 the governmental reclamation of arid 

 land, and their desire to obtain data 



not corrupted or tainted by the land- 

 grabber and schemer. 



The list of engineers present includ- 

 ed Mr. Arthur P. Davis, assistant chief 

 engineer; Mr. J. B. Lippincott, super- 

 vising engineer for California ; Mr. H. 

 N. Savage, supervising engineer for 

 Northwest; Mr. J. H. Quinton, con- 

 sulting engineer; Mr. W. H. Sanders, 

 consulting engineer; Mr. O.H. Ensign, 

 electrical expert for the Pacific coast; 

 Mr. H. A. Storrs, electrical expert for 

 Rocky Mountain region; Mr. Morris 

 Bien, supervising engineer and legal 

 adviser ; Mr. Thomas H. Means, engi- 

 neer of soils; Mr. Charles H. Fitch, 

 supervising engineer, and chairman of 

 Auditing Committee ; Mr. Edmund T. 

 Perkins, engineer and auditor; Mr. 

 George A. Hammond, superintendent 

 of drilling; Mr. Louis C. Hill, super- 

 vising engineer, Arizona ; Mr. I. C. 

 McConnell, Colorado; Mr. D. W. 

 Ross, Idaho; Mr. Cyrus C. Babb and 

 Mr. S. B. Robbins, Montana; Mr. J. 

 E. Field, Nebraska ; Mr. L. H. Taylor, 

 Nevada; Mr. Raymond F. Walter, 

 South Dakota; Mr. T. A. Noble, 

 Washington. 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSO- 

 CIATION, 1904 



"THE Board of Directors of The 

 American Forestry Association, 

 in accordance with its custom, begs to 

 submit the following report, which is 

 intended to be a resume of the more 

 striking events in connection with the 

 development of forestry in the United 

 States during the preceding year, and 

 a review of the status of the forestry 

 movement in the United States at the 

 present time. 



No better indication of the advance 

 of the ideas which this Association has 

 stood for and labored to advance dur- 

 ing the past twenty-three years could 

 be shown than the holding of such a 

 meeting as this Congress, where repre- 



sentatives of all interests having to do, 

 either with the production or the use 

 of forests, have gathered from all 

 parts of the land to see in what way 

 this fundamental necessity of national 

 life may be promoted. When this As- 

 sociation was organized, hard-headed 

 business men looked upon it as an or- 

 ganization composed largely of senti- 

 mentalists, and it is only within a com- 

 paratively few years that the great 

 consumers of forest products have 

 realized that we advocate not forest 

 preservation only, but forest preserva- 

 tion by wise use. But economic laws 

 in this country, as everywhere else, 

 have worked out their inevitable re- 



