Forestry and Irrigation. 



VOL. XL 



APRIL, 1905. 



No. 4. 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Proceedings 

 Delayed 



Through unavoidable 



circumstances in pre- 

 paring the proceed- 

 ings of the American Forest Congress 

 for publication in book form, the is- 

 suance of the finished volume has been 

 delayed beyond the time originally 

 counted on. The entire matter is now 

 in the hands of the printer, and the 

 volume will appear by June i, and 

 perhaps several days in advance of 

 that date. 



. T As announced in the 



New Consulting ... ^ 



Engineer dai l v papers, Mr. Carl 



Ewald Grunsky, for- 

 merly a member of the Panama Canal 

 Commission, was recently appointed 

 consulting engineer and adviser to 

 the Director of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, at a salary of $10,000 a year. 

 Mr. Grnnsky was born in San Joaquin 

 county, California, on April 4, 1855. 

 He attended the public schools of 

 Stockton, being the only male member 

 of the first class graduated from the 

 Stockton High School in 1870. 



After teaching school for a year as 

 principal of South School, in Stock- 

 ton, he determined to acquire a pro- 

 fessional education in Germany. Ac- 

 cordingly he spent nearly six years in 

 Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, as a student 

 in the "Real-Schule" and in the Poly- 

 technic Institute, from which he was 

 graduated as civil engineer at the head 

 of his class in 1877. 



His first professional employment 

 was as topographer with a river sur- 

 veying party of the State Engineering 

 Department of California, in 1878. He 

 was made assistant State Engineer in 

 charge of computations and office 



work relating to stream gaging in 

 1879, an d was advanced to Chief As- 

 sistant in 1882. continuing as such 

 till 1887. 



From 1887 to 1899 he was in pri- 

 vate practice at Sacramento and in 

 San Francisco, also serving during 

 1889 and 1890 as a member of the Ex- 

 amining Commission on Rivers and 

 Harbors for California. In 1892-93 

 he was one of the engineers selected 

 to design a sewer system for San Fran- 

 cisco, and served on the Sewerage 

 Board of that city. In 1893-94 he 

 again served the State of California 

 as a consulting engineer to the Com- 

 missioner of Public Works, dealing 

 with drainage and river rectification 

 problems. 



A Board of Public Works was cre- 

 ated by a new charter for San Fran- 

 cisco, in January, 1900. This board, 

 under the presidency of Col. G. H. 

 Mendell, appointed Mr. Grunsky City 

 Engineer of that city, which position 

 he held until appointed one of the Isth- 

 mian Canal Commissioners. As City 

 Engineer of San Francisco he made 

 plans for a municipal electric light 

 plant, a municipal gas works, a munic- 

 ipal telephone system, water works for 

 a supply of water from the Sierra X - 

 vada Mountains, estimated to cost 

 about $40,000,000; a city railway sys- 

 tem and various public improvements, 

 including a system of main sewers 

 ($7,250,000), public buildings and 

 parks for which bonds have been voted 

 aggregating about $17,000,000. 



In private practice, Mr. Grunsky 

 has been engineer for several irriga- 

 tion and drainage districts and con- 



