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FOKESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



Unpaid dues to the amount of $814 are outstanding. Namely, for annual 

 memberships $764 and Sustaining memberships $50. The Annual dues out- 

 standing are as follows : 



For 1904 $532 oo 



For 1903 228 oo 



For 1902 4 oo 



$764 oo 



One Sustaining Member, elected the latter part of the fiscal year 1903, was 

 credited with 1903 dues paid. 



On March 1, 1904, 4o members were dropped for non-payment of dues, 

 the amount thus lost being $200 



Respectfully submitted, 



OTTO L,UEBKERf, 



WASHINGTON, D. C., December 1, 1904. Treasurer. 



CONFERENCE OF FOREST OFFICIALS 



Valuable Meetings at Washington of Members 

 of General Land Office, Forest Reserve Officers, 

 and Representatives of the Bureau of Forestry 



TOURING the week immediately fol- 

 lowing the Forest Congress, a 

 series of daily conferences were held 

 at the residence of Mr. Gifford Pinchot 

 between the forest supervisors who 

 were attending the Congress, members 

 of Division R of the General Land 

 Office, and members of the Bureau of 

 Forestry. The object of the confer- 

 ences was to discuss the various prob- 

 lems arising in connection with the ad- 

 ministration of the forest reserves ; to 

 get an exchange of ideas between the 

 field and office force ; to suggest neces- 

 sary changes in the regulations, and in 

 general to talk over the details of the 

 field work and devise plans for its im- 

 provement. 



Among the men participating in the 

 conference were the following: In- 

 spectors H. D. Langille and R. H. 

 Charlton, Superintendents Maj. F. A. 

 Fenn and D. B. Shelter, Supervisors 



Frank Stewart, of the Prescott Forest 

 Reserve, Arizona ; J. B. Seely, of the 

 Madison Forest Reserve, Montana ; L. 

 G. Davis, of the Medicine Bow Forest 

 Reserve, Wyoming; A. W. Jensen, of 

 the Manti Forest Reserve, Utah ; F. S. 

 Breen, of the San Francisco Moun- 

 tains Forest Reserve, Arizona ; R. C. 

 McClure, of the Gila Forest Reserve, 

 New Mexico ; Clement Hightower, of 

 the Lincoln Forest Reserve, New Mex- 

 ico ; E. B. Thomas, of the San Bernar- 

 dino Forest Reserve, California. Also 

 Mr. H. H. Jones, chief of Division R ; 

 J. T. Murphy, J. D. Leland, Capt. J. 

 B. Satterlee, Blake Franklin, of the 

 General Land Office ; and Mr. Pinchot, 

 F. E. Olmsted, E. T. Allen, Overton 

 W. Price, T. H. Sherrard, C. Dubois, 

 Hareford, Hatton, Elers Koch, Frank- 

 lin W. Reed, H. J. Tompkins, G. E. 

 Tower, Wilson, and A. F. Potter, of 

 the Bureau of Forestry. 



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