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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



February 



is considerably below the normal, irri- 

 gation is an insurance against serious 

 damage. These facts have now be- 

 come so well established that the meth- 

 od is steadily extending among our 

 market gardeners. 



"Mr. Bach, of Flushing, in Long 

 Island, who has thirty acres of garden 

 truck under irrigation, estimates that 

 the value of his crops was increased 

 $5,000 last year by artificial watering. 

 Mr. Rawson, of Arlington, Mass., 

 says that the value of his market gar- 

 den crops is often increased 50 per 

 cent, by irrigation and nearly always 

 as much as 25 per cent. The testi- 

 mony is general that the size and 

 quality of strawberries, onions, cauli- 

 flower and other small fruits and vege- 

 tables are much improved by irriga- 

 tion. 



"With the higher prices for crops 

 and more intensive cultivation that 

 are coming with increased density of 

 population there is no doubt that irri- 

 gation will take its place as an impor- 

 tant agency in the agriculture and hor- 

 ticulture of the eastern half of the 

 United States." 



Mr. W. G. Swendsen 

 Reclamation , 



__ . has been appointed 



Service Notes. .^ . 



engineering aide in the 



I nitecl States Reclamation Service. 

 Mr. Swendsen graduated from the 

 Agricultural Colege of Utah with the 

 degree of B. S. in C. E. in 1904, and 

 during school and vacation months 

 was engaged in various capacities as 

 levelman and assistant engineer in the 

 establishment of water works systems 

 and the construction of pipe lines and 

 canals, as well as reconnaissance work. 

 He assisted the resident hydrographer 

 in gaging streams and general repair 

 \v<>rk, and from April to December, 

 1904, was employed in the Reclama- 

 tion Service on Strawberry Valley and 

 Utah Lake reconnaissance work as 

 trunsitman and levelman. He is now 

 connected with the work in Utah. 



The alumni of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology continues to be 

 drawn upon heavily for engineers by 

 the Reclamation Service at Washing- 



ton. Among the recent additions to 

 the personnel of the Government en- 

 gineers are the following graduates of 

 this institution : T. F. J. Maguire, a 

 native of Massachusetts, as electrical 

 engineer, with headquarters at Den- 

 ver, Colo. ; Howard Scott Morse, who 

 for two years served as assistant in 

 civil engineering of the institute, as 

 assistant engineer in the Reclamation 

 Service. 



Ernest F. Tabor, who was appoint- 

 ed assistant engineer in the United 

 States Reclamation Service last year, 

 has been promoted to engineer. 



Mr. Tabor attended the University 

 of California, and since 1887 has been 

 engaged in various capacities on en- 

 gineering work in that State, chief 

 amoung which are Superintendent for 

 Escondido Irrigation District ; location 

 and construction of city water works 

 for Elsinore, California ; on river gag- 

 ings, irrigation, mining and land sur- 

 veys. He is at present engaged on 

 reclamation work in Utah. 



Horace W. Sheley, who since 1903 

 has been engaged in the work of the 

 Reclamation Service, has been ap- 

 pointed engineering aide. Mr. Sheley 

 attended Westminster College, Mo., 

 and later the University of Utah, grad- 

 uating with A. B. degree. He has 

 assisted mining engineers and experts, 

 and been engaged in bridge work as 

 supervisor of construction of concrete 

 and reinforced concrete piers and 

 arches. Since entering the Reclama- 

 tion Service Mr. Sheley has been em- 

 ployed as draftsman and topographer 

 and in charge of plane table work. He 

 is now connected with the work in 

 Utah. 



Daniel Grant Martin has been ap- 

 pointed engineer in the L'nited States 

 Reclamation Service, and placed in 

 charge of work on the Minidoka pro- 

 ject. Idaho. Mr. Martin attended 

 the Kansas Normal College, and since 

 iS()i has been engaged as engineer in 

 various capacities on canal construc- 

 tion, in the State of Idaho. 



