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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



February 



The hauler shown in the illustra- 

 tion was constructed for the North- 

 land Pine Company for use on their 

 own operations, and is at the present 

 time being used by them to haul the 

 logs and timber from three of their 

 lumber camps on the former Chippewa 

 Indian Reservation, in Minnesota, to 

 Pine River, a tributary of the Missis- 

 sippi. This is an eight-mile trip each 

 way, on which it is expected to make 

 four round trips each day of twenty- 

 four hours. 



One of the advantages claimed for 

 this machine is that it does not get 

 tired nor have to stop to rest, a change 

 of the operating crew being all that is 

 necessary to keep "the bull of the 

 woods" moving night and day. An- 

 other advantage is that on the re- 

 turn trip to the woods with the empty 

 sleds, when its load is the lighest, the 



hauler pulls its sprinkling tanks loaded 

 with water for icing the log road, also 

 its rut cutter for clearing out and 

 deepening the rut in which the sleds 

 run, thus practically keeping its track 

 or roadbed in condition for constant 

 use, without any additional help, other 

 than the regular crew working with 

 the hauler. It will be readily under- 

 stood by the experienced lumberman 

 that this steam hauling device econo- 

 mizes largely in the cost of team hire, 

 which is one of the heaviest expenses 

 of a lumber camp, especially where 

 the haul is long. Besides it gives the 

 operator a chance to use his teams in 

 skidding and in hauling the loaded 

 trailers from the short branch roads 

 out to the main log road, over which 

 the steam hauler passes on its regular 

 trips to and from the landings. 



FORESTRY IN CALIFORNIA 



A State which Appreciates the Value of its Forests 

 and is Taking Active Measures to Protecl Them 



(CALIFORNIA has over 28,000,000 

 acres, or over one-fifth of its to- 

 tal area, under forest cover. Much of 

 this land is finely timbered, and, with 

 forest management, will be increasing- 

 ly valuable for the wood which it can 

 supply. But in California the forests 

 have another use, which, as is well un- 

 derstood in that State, is even more 

 important than the production of tim- 

 ber to conserve the water supply. 

 The wonderful agricultural develop- 

 ment which irrigation has made pos- 

 sible is perhaps the largest fact in 

 California's recent economical history. 

 Because of the need of water and the 

 fear of floods public sentiment in fa- 

 vor of forest protection in California 

 lia> always been well in advance of 

 that in other States, as was conspicu- 

 ously illustrated after President Cleve- 

 land, in 1897, proclaimed the thirteen 

 Federal Reserves created at the close 



of his administration. Everywhere 

 else in the West the opposition aroused 

 was so strong that the proclamation 

 was soon afterward temporarily sus- 

 pended ; but a special exception was 

 made in the case of California, where 

 public opinion was from the first 

 strongly in favor of the reserves. 



Something less than one-third of 

 the entire wooded area of the State is 

 now embraced in the Federal forest 

 reserves. That the remaining 20,- 

 000,000 acres of its forests may be 

 made to serve the public interest in 

 the fullest possible measure, the State 

 has solicited and secured the coopera- 

 tion of the Bureau of Forestry in 

 working out a proper forest policy for 

 it. Members of the Bureau have, 

 since July, 1903, examined over 21,- 

 000,000 acres of forest and brush 

 lands, and by the end of the year the 

 entire State will have been covered. 



