112 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION March 



nurseries, and to provide for the man- estry was enjoined to make such dis- 



agement and location of the same." tribution, and did so long enough to 



The purchase of two thousand acres be convinced "that the size of the 



of land at a cost not to exceed eight country and the number of people with 



dollars per acre, was authorized and equal rights to this bounty, as well as 



the sum of one dollar and fifty cents the practical difficulties in handling 



annually thereafter was to be allowed such plant material, which must neces- 



to defray the expenses of management sarily vary in kind according to local- 



and labor. The land was purchased ity, forbid the practice, or, at least, 



in Clarke county, twenty miles north do not promise adequate results, ex- 



of Jeffersonville, and measures were cept possibly in planting a few shade 



at once taken to carry out the provis- trees." 



ions of the law. Various experiments The method, however, has proved 



are to be conducted to demonstrate satisfactory in European countries 



methods of silviculture, tree planting, where the State not only distributes 



and forest management. Most im- material free >r at cost of production, 



portant of all is the establishment of a but also supervises the planting of it. 



State nursery wherein seedlings will the distribution, however, is made not 



be raised for free distribution to the to pr i va t e owners, but to associations 



farmers of the State. Since there are and commun i t i es . j n this country the 

 no forest tree nurseries in Indiana this Qf ^ undertaking depends 



action of the State will not interfere enthusiastic cooperation of 



with any private enterprise. , v , 



This distribution of plant material, the land owners and requires that the 



though not a new idea, has never been distribution of plant material be done 



undertaken by any other State. For- systematically and intelligently with 



merly the chief of the Division of For- judicious supervision. 



THE KREMMLING RESERVOIR SITE 



Situated in ColoradoLargest Yet Discovered; 

 Great Reclamation and Power Possibilities 



BY 

 A. L. FELLOWS 



District Engineer, United States Reclamation Service 



T MMENSE reservoir sites are being miles, covering and surrounding a 

 discovered in many parts of the great mountain park generally known 

 arid west. The largest of all thus far as Middle Park. This vast area is, 

 known is that generally designated as to all practical intents and purposes, 

 the Kremmling site, situated in Grand a great basin, the altitude of the mea- 

 County, which is near the center of the dows along the river bottom being 

 northern half of the state and com- about 7,100 feet above sea level. The 

 prises the greater portion of the upper sides are composed of great moun- 

 drainage basin of Grand River, with tain ranges, among which are the Park 

 the exception of that contained in or Gore Range on the west and south- 

 Summit County drained by Blue Riv- west, and the Continental Divide of 

 er, an important tributary of the the Rocky Mountains on the north, 

 Grand. The two counties together east and south, the peaks ascending 

 comprise an area of about 2,790 square to elevations of 14,000 feet or more. 



