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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



pleted. The Waco Sanders project 

 will require some additional field work 

 before estimates can be made for the 

 three systems it involves. The first of 

 these includes the Waco ditch, cover- 

 ing 4,000 acres, the Big Plorn Junc- 

 tion ditch, 1,500 acres, and a low line 

 gravity canal for the Sanders land cov- 

 ering 13,000 acres, thus giving a total 

 of 18,500 acres under the gravity sys- 

 tem. 



The second system includes the 

 Waco power and irrigation canal and 

 Sanders and Big Horn Junction pump 

 lines, with a total of 23,100 acres. 



The third system includes the San- 

 ders low line gravity canal, 13,000 

 acres ; W^aco power and irrigation ca- 

 nal, 4,500 acres, which will supply pow- 

 er to pump from the Sanders low line 

 with a seventeen-foot lift, to cover 

 5,000 acres, and to pump with a fifty- 

 foot lift to cover 5,000 acres, also to 

 cover the Big Horn flats near the junc- 

 tion of the rivers by a gravity ditch 

 aggregating about 5,000 acres. The 

 surveys have not been made on all of 

 the canal lines, so that estimates of 

 cost at this time are not possible. 



The following is a list of the engi- 

 neers, aids and assistants now under 

 S. B. Robbins, engineer in charge of 

 the Sun River project, Montana : 



Preliminary Surveys F. F. Pren- 

 dergast, assistant engineer in charge 

 of party ; W. R. Ewings, engineering 

 aid, plane table ; John C. Cleghorn, en- 

 gineering aid, instrument man and 

 draftsman; W. C. Newlon, station as- 

 sistant, Chas. Gordon, rodsman, plane 

 table ; VVm. Throm, rodnian, plane ta- 

 ble ; John P. Nelson, rodman, level and 

 transit ; Harry Lloyd, axesman ; Geo. 

 \\ . Sherman, Jr., teamster; John For- 

 rest, cook. 



Location Surveys Geo. W. Wood, 

 field assistant, in charge of party ; Gor- 

 don Edson,engineeringaid,transitman ; 

 C.E. Shipman, engineering aid, drafts- 

 man and topographer ; John A. Byron, 

 head chainman ; Roy Thomas, rear 

 chainman ; F. G. Lewis, back flagman ; 

 G. W. Merrill, axeman ; Arthur Lam- 

 bie, axeman ; R. W. Randall, level- 



man ; Fred Stewart, level rodman ; G. 

 W. Sherman, cook ; T. S. Newman, 

 teamster ; John Scott, teamster. 

 Reservoir Surveys Willis T. Turner, 

 topographer, in charge of party ; Ar- 

 thur P. Porter, engineering "aid, in- 

 strumentman ; F. W. Bird, station as- 

 sistant ; Henry Heinrichs, rodman ; 

 Herman Maurer, rodman ; F. W. To- 

 zer, cook ; Robert Palmer, packer. 



The Chief Engineer of the Reclama- 

 tion Service has accepted the resigna- 

 tion of Mr. William Swift, engineer, 

 effective May I, 1905. Mr. Swift re- 

 signs to accept a position with the Isth- 

 mian Canal Commission as resident 

 engineer at $3,600 per annum. He 

 will be allowed 15 per cent, of his 

 salary as a commutation for the main- 

 tenance of quarters, free transporta- 

 tion from New York or New Orleans 

 to the Isthmus, six weeks' leave of ab- 

 sence on full pay, medical and hos- 

 pital service in case of illness, and 

 upon the termination of his services 

 with the Commission will be accorded 

 free passage back to this country. 



Mr. Swift, who was born in Con- 

 necticut, graduated from the Massach- 

 usetts Institute of Technology with 

 the degree of B. S. He has been en- 

 gaged in various engineering capaci- 

 ties since 1895 with the Boston Water 

 Works, Metropolitan Water Works, 

 Boston ; Munson Steamship Line, N. 

 Y. ; Rapid Transit Railroad, New 

 York City, in charge of construction 

 of subway ; February 24, 1903, engi- 

 neer in Reclamation Service. 



Mr. Swift's services have been emi- 

 nently satisfactory and his departure 

 from the Reclamation Service is re- 

 viewed with regret by his superior 

 officers and bv the men who have been 

 engaged under him on engineering 

 work in Montana. 



The Secretary of the Interior has 

 executed a contract and approved the 

 bond for the installation of a steam- 

 heating plant in the eight-room school 

 building to be erected in the city of 

 Hobart, Oklahoma. The contract was 

 secured by F. B. Hannan & Company, 

 of Lawton, Oklahoma. 



