Forestry and Irrigation 



VOL. XL 



JUNE, 1905. 



No. 6 



NEWS AND NOTES 



The proceedings of the 

 issued American Forest Con- 



gress have just been 

 issued in book form. The volume con- 

 tains about 480 pages, and includes 

 every paper read at the various ses- 

 sions of the Congress, and a large 

 number of the more important im- 

 promptu addresses, and is substantial- 

 ly and neatly bound in green cloth. 

 The American Forest Congress, held 

 at Washington, D. C., January 2 to 5, 

 was, according to President Roosevelt, 

 "A meeting which is without parallel 

 in the history of forestry," and this 

 volume, with its complete record of 

 the proceedings, is the most authori- 

 tative publication that has been issued 

 on the subject of American forestry. 

 The H. M. Suter Publishing Com- 

 pany, P. O. Box 356, Washington, 

 D. C., are issuing the book. It is 

 sold for $1.25 a copy post paid. 



Putting into effect a law 

 Game Reserve passed by the last SCS- 



sion of Congress, the 

 President has proclaimed the whole 

 Wichita Forest Reserve a game pre- 

 serve. The reserve is in Oklahoma 

 Territory, and contains 57,120 acres. 

 Declaring it a game preserve takes 

 away none of its functions as a re- 

 serve, it merely suspends all territorial 

 game laws. In the future, under reg- 

 ulations prescribed by the Secretary 

 of Agriculture, game, especially quail 

 and wild turkeys, will be protected and 

 encouraged to propagate in the pre- 

 serve. 



Forestry on The Bureau of Forestry 

 a Private has been called upon to 



devise a plan by which 

 the owner of a forest on a summer 

 resort island mav cut the timber with- 



out impairing the scenic effect of the 

 forest. It is a hardwood forest of 

 about 7,000 acres, and covers half 

 of Manitou Island, Lake Michigan. 

 About half the forest is virgin timber. 

 The owner desires a steady product, 

 but to have the cutting done in such 

 a way that the forest will remain an 

 attraction of the island. Mr. S. J. 

 Record, of the Bureau, is in charge of 

 the work, and will be assisted by four 

 field men. 



Oklahoma The Commissioner of 

 Land With- the General Land Office 

 drawals j ias temporarily with- 



drawn from any form of disposition 

 whatever, the following lands in the 

 Territory of Oklahoma, in connection 

 with the Navajo reservoir site on Red 

 River : 



Indian meridian T. 2 N.. R. 18 W., 

 Sections 4 and 5. 



T. 5 N., R. 18 W., Sections 6, 7, 

 17, 18, 19, 20, 28, 29, 30, 31. 32, 33. 



T. 3 N., R. 19 W., Sections i, 2, 3, 

 9, 10, ii, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 

 14, 25, 16, 36. 



T. 4 N., R. 18 W., Sections 5, 6, 

 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 30, 31. 



T. 4 N., R. 19 W., Sections i. 2, 3. 



II. 12, 13, 14, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 



34- 35- 36. 



T. 5 N., R. 19 W., Sections 3^, ^5. 



36. 



The Bureau of Forestry 

 Fo'reSTwork 6 has begun another co- 



operative piece of work 

 with the Northern Pacific R-iilmad. 

 It is an investigation of the problem 

 of a future supply of railroad ties for 

 the section of the line east of Mon- 

 tana. The present eastern supply will 

 last, at the outside', not lunger than 

 fifteen years, and the railroad is anx- 



