104 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION March 



with the work of the Reclamation C. S. Newhall, was abolished on 



Service in Montana: March i, 1905. 



Irwin B. Hosig, of Madison, Wis- The office of Forest Superintendent 



consin, hydrographic aid: Charles E. for the Southern California Forest 



Chipman,' Ambridge, Penn., and John Reserves, formerly held by Colonel B. 



C. Cleghorn, Onawa, Iowa, engineer- F. Allen, was abolished on February 



ing aids. T - I 95- 



These men are appointed from the Early E ri _ An interesting exam- 

 Civil Service list and will report to ment in ple of the profit in 

 S. B. Robbins, engineer in charge of Forestry. conservative forest 

 Sun River project, at Great Falls. management in this country is fur- 

 In continuance of an investigation n i sne d by Dr. S. B. Caldwell, of Pa- 

 of the irrigation project which is being ducah, Ky., who has dealt in timber- 

 made in the vicinity of Holbrook, An- lands in the southwestern part of the 

 zona, the chief engineer has ordered State for fifty-eight years. "In 1847," 

 the establishment of gaging stations says Dr Caldwell, "I sold timber from 

 on the Little Colorado River above a ^ act o f land at $i an acre, the pur- 

 the mouth of the Puerco, in the vi- c haser having the privilege of remov- 

 cinity of Woodruff, and below the ing what he wanted and leaving what 

 mouth of the Puerco in the vicinity he did not want He took the choice 

 of Holbrook, and also of Clear Creek trees< but left a considerable amount 

 and Chevlons Fork, which are tnbu- standing. In 1870 I sold the timber 

 taries of the Little Colorado. f rom the same tract and got for it $ 2 



TV, TVT \ a tree. The purchaser removed an 



On March i, Mr. A. , , , J 



Forest Reserve , Anirrson former avera g e of three trees P er acre - In 



Personals. A - ^ n erso "' ] ^84 I sold the timber from the same 



Iv Special rorest bu- r ,, ,, . , ,. , r 



, , ;, \ r ,, T? tract for the third time, and got for 



perintendent of the Yellowstone For- ^ ag j had received * at the 



est Reserve, was made Special rorest , , 



T , ,, second sale. 



Inspector of that reserve. Dr Caldwdd - s experience in the 



Forest Inspector S. A. Barrett is woods ht him j the wig _ 



temporarily m charge of the western dom Qf conservative f ore & st ma nage- 



division of the Santa Barbara Forest ment Thirty years when hg 



Reserve, in California, came imo poss e ssion of a tract of 



Forest Ranger JR. Bell has been about ;oo acres near p aducahf he sold 



placed in charge of the San Jacinto a quantitv of the timber for wagon 



and Trabuco Canyon Reserves, in Cal- stock A "t that time forestry in this 



iforma, taking the place of former countrv was virtually unknown. Dr. 



Forest Supervisor Bartlett, who has Caldwell, however, ' was sufficiently 



resigned. foresighted to allow no trees to be 



Forest Ranger S. N. L. Ellis has cut except those which he selected. He 



been placed in charge of the Stams- went about j n the woo ds and picked 



laus and Lake Tahoe Forest Reserves, out trees w hose tops and general ap- 



in California, taking the place of For- pea rance showed they had passed their 



est Supervisor Grant Taggart. period o f great est vigor, and trees 



Forest Ranger L. F. Kneipp has which interfered with promising 



been placed in charge of the Pecos young growth. His forest has been 



River Forest Reserve, taking the place culled a number of times in the past 



of former Forest Supervisor T. thirty years, but so wisely has the 



Hanna, deceased. cutting been done that to-day the land 



The office of Forest Superintendent will average from 10,000 to 15,000 



for the Northern Division of the Sier- board feet per acre. This was an ex- 



ra Forest Reserve, in California, for- periment in forestry which has amply 



merly held by Forest Superintendent justified itself, and shows how a 



