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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



ments. Methods of planting wood- 

 lots, timber tracts, shelter-belts, and 

 windbreaks will be illustrated by a 

 large model, showing particularly the 

 combinations of tree species recom- 

 mended by the Forest Service for var- 

 ious sections of the United States, in 

 which tree planting is desirable. Var- 

 ious other models, charts, etc., will 

 illustrate other special work which 

 this service is prosecuting. 



In the space allotted to the Recla- 

 mation Service, in addition to the 

 transparencies occupying the windows, 

 which are to illustrate the conditions 

 prevailing in the various projects 



Interior of the Forestry Building at the Lewis 

 and Clark Centennial Exposition. 



under consideration, and special 

 phases of the governmental irrigation 

 work, maps will show the extent and 

 location of the various irrigation en- 

 terprises, and several of the more im- 

 portant projects will be represented on 

 the floor space by working models, 'in 

 which, in some cases, water is used 

 to represent more clearly canals, lakes 

 and laterals. 



Soecific and general information 

 both relating to governmental irriga- 

 tion in its entirety, and regarding each 

 particular locality under consideration 

 by the Reclamation Service will be 



printed on large cards, 27 by 40 inches, 

 which will be mounted in wing frames 

 for easy access. Another special fea- 

 ture of the exhibit, and one which it 

 is felt will be of especial value to 

 homeseekers and irrigators generally, 

 is the Bureau of Information. Mr, 

 C. J. Blanchard, of the Reclamation 

 Service, will be in charge of this de- 

 partment. He will have an office in 

 the space allotted to the service, and 

 is prepared to furnish all available in- 

 formation, to those interested, con- 

 cerning the governmental reclamation 

 work in all of the states and territories. 

 A big supply of photographs, maps, 

 diagrams and trite matter, snowing the 

 progress of the work of national rec- 

 lamation, and with information re- 

 garding the workings of the National 

 Irrigation Act, and each particular 

 project in the process of construction, 

 or under consideration, is being pre- 

 pared for distribution. The exhibit 

 of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, including that of the Reclamation 

 Service, will be under the charge of 

 Mr. E. T. Perkins, an engineer of the 

 hydrographic branch, assisted by Mr. 

 W. S. Robbins, a member of the geo- 

 logical branch of the survey. 



Distinctly separate from the build- 

 ing and the exhibits indicated above, 

 is the State Forestry Building, shown 

 in the accompanying illustrations. The 

 building which contains the govern- 

 ment's display in the fields of irriga- 

 tion and forestry, is to be known as 

 the Forestry and Irrigation Building, 

 and it should be noted that the national 

 forest exhibit is not in the so-called 

 Forestry Building. The latter is one 

 of the most unique structures at the 

 exposition. It is a gigantic log house, 

 built of magnificent specimens of the 

 forest wealth of Oregon and Washing- 

 ton, and forming in itself a goodly 

 display. 



The exhibits contained in the build- 

 ing partake more of the character of 

 lumber exhibits. Specimens of the 

 finished products of the forests of 

 Washington and Oregon are exhibit- 

 ed, and examples of logging and lum- 

 bering operations indicated. In the 



