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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



serves will be facilitated and encour- 

 aged, with the least possible red tape 

 requirements. 



Such a policy is well calculated to 

 enlist the support of the people in the 

 forest reserve idea. Heretofore such 

 strict restrictions have been imposed 

 in the public's utilization of forest re- 

 serve privileges and such long delays 

 occasioned by unavoidable red tape 

 methods, that they have come to re- 

 gard the reserves as a menace to their 

 welfare, instead of a benefit conferred 

 upon them by the government. The 

 new policy will go far toward induc- 

 ing a change of sentiment in this re- 

 gard. 



Reclamation District Engineer Geo. 

 Service L,. Swendsen, Salt Lake 



Personals. C j ty> hag begn directed 



to continue the hydrographic measure- 

 ments in Utah which bear upon the 

 various projects, and to take up ne- 

 gotiations with land owners with the 

 objects of bringing to a definite con- 

 clusion the early construction of the 

 project determined upon. 



The legal department of the Recla- 

 mation Service is prepared to give all 

 needed assistance to the water users 

 interested in the Strawberry Valley 

 project in forming the necessary water 

 users' association. 



Mr. Harry E. Essley and Mr. Ed- 

 ward R. Furstenfield, both residents 

 of Colorado, have been appointed as 

 bookkeepers and assigned to duty un- 

 der Engineer I. W. McConnell, at 

 Montrose, in connection with the Un - 

 compahgre Valley project. 



Mr. H. A. Comstock, Engineering 

 Aid, Reclamation Service, has been as- 

 signed to hydrographic work in 

 South Dakota, and ordered to report 

 to Mr. Raymond F. Walter, Belle 

 Fourche, on April ist. Mr. ComstockV> 

 home is in Vermont. 



Mr. Elver L. Shinhur, of Colorado, 

 has received an appointment as Engi- 

 neering Aid and ordered to report to 

 T. W. McConnell at Montrose, where 

 he will be engaged in connection with 

 the Uncompahgre Valley project. 



Mr. R. W. Hawley, Assistant Engi- 



neer, has been assigned to work in 

 Nevada, and ordered to report to Dis- 

 trict Engineer L. H. Taylor, at Hazen. 

 He will be engaged upon drafting- 

 work in connection with the Truckee- 

 Carson project. Mr. Hawley's home 

 is in New York, and he is a graduate 

 of the Colorado Agricultural College, 

 having taken a course in irrigation 

 engineering. 



The Reclamation Service is plan- 

 ning a very busy season in the North 

 Platte Valley in connection with the 

 work on the North Platte project. The 

 engineer in charge, John E. Field, has 

 directed a number of parties to pro- 

 ceed to the field as soon as conditions 

 permit. At the present time the as- 

 signments from the Civil Service to 

 the project includes: One Assistant en- 

 gineer with experience on topographic 

 work ; ten engineering aids, three of 

 whom it is intended to train for topo- 

 graphic work on canal surveys ; two 

 experienced level men ; one construct- 

 ing engineer draftsman ; one topo- 

 graphic draftsman ; two assistant en- 

 gineers, with experience on construc- 

 tion ; four assistant engineers, to act 

 as instrument men for last named as- 

 sistant engineers. 



Mr. A. P. Davis, Assistant Chief 

 Engineer of the Reclamation Service, 

 row in the West visiting the several 

 Government projects, will devote con- 

 siderable personal attention to the va- 

 rious schemes for reclamation in 

 Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, 

 Nevada, Colorado. Under instruc- 

 tions of Chief Engineer Newell he will 

 hold several meetings with boards of 

 engineers in these States, and during 

 his stav will endeavor to meet and dis- 

 cuss important questions with the 

 prominent citizens interested in the 

 various projects. 



Mr. Benjamin Franklin, of Ft. Col- 

 lins, Colorado, will enter the employ 

 of the Reclamation Service on May 

 15, 1905, as masonry inspector, and 

 will be detailed to the Belle Fourche 

 project. South Dakota. 



Mr. Goyne Drummond, one of the 

 best known reconnaissance men con- 





