Forestry and Irrigation. 



VOL. XL 



MAY, 1905. 



No. 5 



NEWS AND NOTES 



To Visit A Congressional excur- 



Reclamation sion composed of mem- 

 Works, bers of both irrigation 

 committees of both the Senate and 

 House of Representatives, and others, 

 will leave Kansas City on June I, and 

 will make a personal inspection of a 

 number of the large irrigation projects 

 which the Government is constructing 

 in several of the Western States and 

 Territories. 



The first stop will be made at El 

 Paso, where a visit will be paid to the 

 Engle dam site on the Rio Grande. 

 The party will also take a sixty-mile 

 drive into the mountains of Arizona 

 to examine the construction work now 

 well under way on the Roosevelt dam. 

 A careful study will be made of con- 

 ditions on the Colorado River, the vis- 

 it extending into the famous Imperial 

 Valley, portions of which are several 

 hundred feet below sea level. In Cal- 

 ifornia stops will be made at Riverside, 

 Los Angeles, San Francisco, Redding 

 and Sacramento. 



On the 1 7th of June, the third an- 

 niversary of the Reclamation Act, the 

 Congressional party will be at Hazen, 

 Nev., at which time water will be 

 turned upon 50,000 acres of land un- 

 der the Truckee-Carson project, con- 

 structed by the Government, and the 

 first of the large irrigation projects 

 to be put into operation. Leaving Ne- 

 vada, short stops will be made in Og- 

 den. Salt Lake, at various points in 

 Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming 

 and Colorado. The party will break 

 up July 4th at Denver, Colorado. 



Included in the party are the follow- 

 ing : Senator and Mrs. Newlands, Sen- 

 ator and Mrs. Foraker, Senator and 

 Mrs. Fulton, Representatives Mondell, 



Cooper, Reeder, Marshall, Smith, 

 Jones, Hitchcock, and their wives ; 

 Senator and Mrs. Simmons, Senator 

 and Mrs. Dubois, Senator and Mrs. 

 Warren, Judge J. I. Parker, represent- 

 ing the Secretary of the Interior; C. 

 J. Blanchard, representing the Recla- 

 mation Service; W. H. Hunter, Wash- 

 ington Post, and Mr. Arthur Ruhl, 

 Collier's Weekly. 



The full intinerary of this trip is 

 as follows : The party will assemble at 

 and leave Kansas City June i ; June 3 

 to 5, El Paso, Texas ; June 5, Mari- 

 copa, Ariz. ; June 6 to 8, Phoenix, 

 Mesa and Maricopa ; June 9 and 10, 

 Yuma, Old Beach and Calexico ; June 

 1 1, Redlands and Riverside, Cal. ; June 

 ii to 13, Los Angeles; June 14 and 

 15, San Francisco; June 15, Redding; 

 June 16, Sacramento; June 17-18, 

 Sparks and Hazen, Nev. ; June 19-20, 

 Ogden and Salt Lake; June 21-22, 

 Minidoka, Nampa, and Boise, Idaho ; 

 June 23 and 24, Portland; June 25, 

 Seattle ; June 27, Billings and Toluca ; 

 June 28, Cody ; June 29, Toluca : June 

 30, Alliance, Guernsey, Wheatland, 

 and Cheyenne; July I, Cheyenne and 

 Denver ; July 2, Montrose ; July 4. 

 Denver. 



In passing it should be stated that 

 the special train for this excursion is 

 furnished by the railroads and oilier 

 expenses are met by members of the 

 party Thus the sensational press will 

 have little opportunity to screech about 

 an expensive "junket" on the people's 

 money. 



Grazing on the The season for Dazing 

 Forest is now nearly over, but 



Reserves. from the time the man- 



agement of the forest reserves was 

 transferred to the Bureau of Forest rv 



