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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



101 



protection to the water supply ; the 

 r ery radical amendment of the fraud- 

 naking desert land law and the corn- 

 nutation clause of the homestead law, 

 requiring in both cases actual resi- 

 lence of the settler and insuring real 

 lome-making. All three of these laws 

 j.s stated in the report, have been, are, 

 ;.nd will be, so long as they remain on 

 he statute book, instruments of fraud, 

 >erjury, and great loss to the nation. 

 They stand as a continual menace not 

 >nly to a broad forestry policy, but to 

 [he very existence of the national irri- 

 gation idea and are fast bringing about 

 , condition of absolute land monopoly 

 n the West. 



supporting the Several bills desired 

 ieclamation by the Reclamation 

 Service to more fully 

 'arry out the provisions of the Recla- 

 nation Act, were considered and read- 

 ly passed by Congress. These include 

 he bill to allow the proceeds from the 

 ,ales of the vast amount of partly used 

 upplies, at the end of each season, to 

 ^o back into the "reclamation fund," 

 nstead of into the treasury, thus keep- 

 ng the fund intact and operating as 

 n incentive to the engineers to take 

 are of their property and realize the 

 nost out of it. 



According to the news- 

 Lightning ,~\ 

 :han ge . papers, a German 



paper manufacturer at 

 senthal has just made an experiment 

 o see how rapidly it is possible to 

 ransform a tree into a newspaper. As 

 he story goes, three trees in the neigh- 

 >orhood of his factory were cut down 

 it 7 135 in the morning. They were 

 nstantly barked and pulped, and the 

 irst roll of paper was ready at 9 134. 

 t was lifted into an automobile and 

 :onveyed to the press-room of the 

 icarest daily paper. The paper being 

 ilready set, the printing began at once, 

 md by 10 o'clock precisely the journal 

 vas on sale in the streets. The entire 

 >rocess of transformation had taken 

 exactly 2 hours and 25 minutes. While 

 't may be doubted that the above- 

 lescribed operation took only about 



two and a half hours, at the same time 

 it serves to illustrate one of the numer- 

 ous ways of turning trees into usable 

 form with wonderful rapidity. 



Forestry in 

 Illinois. 



The Illinois Federated 

 Women's Clubs a 

 federation of 268 clubs 

 with a membership of over 25,000 

 has taken up with serious earnestness 

 the practical question of scientific for- 

 estry in Illinois, and with that end in 

 view has prepared and had introduced 

 in the Illinois Assembly three forestry 

 bills. One of these proposed laws pro- 

 vides for a chair of forestry in the 

 State University of Illinois, another 

 for the organization and maintenance 

 of a State forestry commission, ap- 

 pointed by the Governor from selec- 

 tions made by the Farmers' Institute, 

 the Illinois Nurserymen's Association, 

 the State Agricultural Society, the 

 State Horticultural Society, and the 

 chair of Forestry of the State Univer- 

 sity. The third bill provides for the 

 purchase of a pine tract in Ogle 

 county. 



Forest Law for 

 California. 



The legislature of Cal- 

 ifornia has passed the 

 act introduced by Sen- 

 ator Anderson to provide for "the 

 regulation of fires on, and the protec- 

 tion and management of, public and 

 private forest lands in the State of 

 California, creating a State Board of 

 Forestry * * * and creating a forestry 

 fund and appropriating the moneys in 

 said fund, and defining and providing 

 for the punishment of certain offenses 

 for violations of the provisions of this 

 act, and making an appropriation 

 therefor." The State Board of For- 

 estry is to consist of the Governor, 

 Secretary of State, Attorney-General, 

 and State Forester, which latter posi- 

 tion has been created, with a salary 

 of $2,400. The supervision and care 

 of the State forest reserves and parks 

 is in charge of the board, and the State 

 Forester is empowered to lend his as- 

 sistance in any cooperative work of 

 the State with counties, towns, corpo- 

 rations, and individuals, and directed 



