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nected with the Reclamation Service, 

 has been directed to report to Mr. Cy- 

 rus C. Babb, engineer in charge of the 

 Milk River project, to take up the 

 reconnaissance work on Swift Creek, 

 Kennedy, and Boundary Creeks, trib- 

 utaries to the St. Mary River. 



Mr. E. H. Baldwin, who was ap- 

 pointed Constructing Engineer, left 

 Washington April 3, to report to Mr. 

 C. E. Wells, at Casper, Wyo., for dutv 

 on Pathfinder reservoirs. Mr. Bald- 

 win is a graduate of Cornell Univer- 

 sity and was engaged in 1892 as en- 

 gineer and superintendent of grading 

 new streets in Seattle, Washington. 

 Since that time he has been with the 

 Omaha Canal and Power Co., Omahs, 

 Neb.; Fall River Water Works Co., 

 Mass.; City Engineer's Office, New- 

 ton, Mass. ; Sewer Div., Street Depart- 

 ment, Boston, and from November, 

 1895, to date, with Metropolitan Wa- 

 ter and Sewerage Board of Boston. 

 Mass. 



F. W. Huber, Assistant Engineer, 

 now at Berkeley, Cai., will be trans- 

 ferred to L. H. Taylor, Hazen, Ne- 

 vada, to carry on tests of cement. Mr. 

 Huber Was born in Virginia and at- 

 tended the Baltimore City College and 

 Cornell University. He was engaged 

 in various engineering capacities b\' 

 the United Railways of Baltimore and 

 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., 

 up to May, 1903, when he received an 

 appointment as Engineering Aid in 

 the Reclamation Service. 



H. C. Hurd, Assistant Engineer, re- 

 signs from the service to accept posi- 

 tion under Peruvian Government. Mr. 

 Hurd graduated at Princeton and 

 spent some time on the construction of 

 the Broadway Cable road. New York 

 City. He was subsequently engaged 

 with the Nicaragua Canal Commis- 

 sion, the Isthmian Canal Commission, 

 Washington & Annapolis Electric Ry. 

 Co., and as special agent of the State 

 Department on work on Nicaragua 

 Canal Route. 



H. T. Paterson, Assistant Engineer, 

 attended Rose Polytechnic Institute, 

 Terre Haute, Ind. Will be transferred 



from Hazen, Nevada, to Roswell, N. 

 M., to succeed H. C. Hurd, resigned. 

 Mr. Paterson, who had a course in 

 special work at the Missouri School of 

 Mines, was engaged on ditch construc- 

 tion for the Taylor-Park Gold Mining 

 Co. ; as assistant city engineer, Colo- 

 rado Springs ; with the Colorado 

 Springs Rapid Transit Co., and with 

 the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. 

 Entered Reclamation Service in Oc- 

 tober, 1902. 



A. P. Morris, Draftsman, will report 

 at Belle Fourche, S. D., for duty, Ma\ 

 ist. Transferred from Washington 

 office. 



Jos. H. Root, clerk, transferred 

 from Nautical Almanac Service, Naval 

 Observatory. Has been ordered to re- 

 port for duty at Hazen, Nevada. 



H. P. Seidemann, clerk, transferred 

 from Washington office to Belle 

 Fourche, S. D., for disbursing duties 

 in connection with Belle Fourche pro- 

 ject. 



A. I. Stiles, Engineering Aid, re- 

 signs from service to accept position 

 under Peruvian Government. Mr. 

 Stiles attended the Stanford Univer- 

 sity, California, and has been connect- 

 ed with the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, making two trips to Alaska ; also 

 with the Examiner of Surveys, Gen- 

 eral Land Office. 



Chas. E. Slonaker, Observer. As- 

 signed to work under the direction of 

 P. M. Churchill, N. D. Mr. Slonaker 

 was transferred to the Reclamation 

 Service from the U. S. Weather Bu- 

 reau in 1903. 



In order to expedite the preliminary 

 work on the Crow Indian Reservation, 

 the following have been assigned to 

 Engineer Robert S. Stockton, in 

 charge of the reclamation w r ork: C. S. 

 Steiner, L. M. Hatch, Assistant Engi- 

 neers, and T. M. Gardner and A. M. 

 Bonillon, Draftsmen. 



With this addition to the regular 

 force employed it is hoped to finish 

 up the general reports and estimates 

 on the definite projects in the reserva- 

 tion about April 15. The work on 

 the Ft. Custer project is about com- 



