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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



April 



purposes, and the general conservation 

 of forest tracts around the headwaters 

 and on the watersheds of all water 

 courses. The board is to publish pop- 

 ular bulletins on the subject of fores- 

 try, for distribution, and make reports 

 and recommendations. The State res- 

 ervations may be acquired by deed, 

 gift, or devise, or condemnation pro- 

 ceedings, and the board has power tr 

 acquire a fee simple estate to lands 

 to be taken as reservations. 



The act further provides for the ap- 

 pointment by the commissioners of 

 fire wardens, and make it a misde- 

 meanor to set fires on or near State 

 forest reservations, or cut timber 

 thereon, except when empowered by 

 the board. Provision is made for the 

 board to cut and sell State timber 

 when it appears advantageous. 



The three appointed members of the 

 board serve without compensation, but 

 with expenses paid by the State when 

 in pursuance of their duties. A secre- 

 tary of the board is created, with a sal- 

 ary to be fixed, who attests expenses 

 and certifies amounts to be expended 

 from the State moneys for the pur- 

 chase of reservations. 



The passage of this act marks a new 

 epoch in forestry in New Jersey, a re- 

 sult of a liberal campaign of education 

 that has led to understanding and ap- 

 preciation, and a single law covering 

 in so thoroughly comprehensive a man- 

 ner the whole subject has seldom been 

 enacted by a State legislature. 



Appointments, Mr. John T. Keenan, 

 Transfers; Re- of Colorado, has been 

 clam'on Service appointed Assistant 

 Engineer in the Reclamation Service. 

 Air. Keenan will engage in work on 

 the Uncompahgre Valley project at 

 Montrose, under the direction of I. W. 

 McConnell. 



Supervising Engineer B. M. Hall, 

 who has had general charge of the in- 

 vestigations in the Rio Grande Valley 

 in New Mexico and Texas, has been 

 appointed Supervising Engineer for 

 the Territory of Oklahoma, and will 

 direct the operations of a number of 

 field parties engaged upon surveys in 



that territory. Mr. Hall will also con- 

 tinue in charge of work on the Rio 

 Grande. 



Mr. Willis T. Turner, topographer, 

 has been assigned to duty in Montana, 

 and ordered to report to Mr. S. B. 

 Robbins, who has charge of the Sun 

 River project in that State. Mr. Tur- 

 ner has been in the employ of the Geo- 

 logical Survey since 1894, in various 

 capacities on surveying. He was as- 

 signed to the Reclamation Service in 

 1903. 



Mr. John C. Cleghorn, of Iowa, has 

 received an appointment as Engineer- 

 ing Aid and ordered to report to S. 

 B. Robbins, Great Falls, Montana, 

 where he will be engaged in work on 

 the Sun River project. 



Mr. Frederick H. Tillinghast, As- 

 sistant Engineer, has been assigned to 

 duty in Washington. Mr. Tillinghast 

 made a special study of hydraulics and 

 sanitary engineering in the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, and 

 graduated from Brown University 

 with the degree of C. E. He has held 

 various positions as assistant super- 

 vising engineer on construction work 

 for railways and power companies, 

 and in 1902 was appointed to the posi- 

 tion of assistant engineer in the Recla- 

 mation Service. 



Mr. Clifford M. King, of Ithaca, 

 New York, has received an appoint- 

 ment as engineering aid and has been 

 assigned to duty in Idaho. Mr. King 

 is a graduate of the College of Civil 

 Engineering, Cornell University, and 

 has been engaged in construction work 

 on concrete roadbed and railroads, and 

 last season had charge of the location 

 of canal lines for the Deschutes Irri- 

 gation and Power Company, in Ore- 

 gon. 



Mr. Thomas H. Humphreys has 

 been promoted from the position of 

 Assistant Engineer to that of Engi- 

 neer. He has been assigned to work 

 at Klamath Falls under Supervising- 

 Engineer J. B. Lippincott. Mr. Hum- 

 phreys is a native of Idaho and grad- 

 uated from the Utah Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



