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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



June 



shall have been solved in a harmonious 

 manner and according to a precon- 

 ceived plan. 



Personal >otes. 



Mr. W. S. Coulter, of Boston, was 

 recently appointed assistant engineer 

 in the Reclamation Service, and has 

 gone to Fort Laramie, Wyoming, 

 where he will report to Mr. John E. 

 Field, engineer in charge of the North 

 Platte project. 



Walter C. Wilson was recently ap- 

 pointed an engineering aid, and has 

 gone to Minidoka, Idaho, to report to 

 F. C. Horn, constructing engineer. 

 Mr. Wilson, who is a native of In- 

 diana and attended Earlham College, 

 at Richmond, that State, is a graduate 

 student of Sheffield Scientific School, 

 Yale University. He has been en- 

 gaged in surveying for the Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad Company, and as 

 draftsman for the Louisina Purchase 

 Exposition. 



H. M. Morse, engineering aid in 

 Reclamation Service, has been trans- 

 ferred to Montana, where he will be 

 engaged upon hydrographic work on 

 the Milk River project under the su- 

 pervision of Mr. C. C. Babb. Mr. 

 Morse graduated from Dartmouth 

 College with the degree of B. S., and 

 from the Thayer School of Civil En- 

 gineering, C. E. He has served in 

 the capacity of assistant engineer on 

 the water works at Needham, Fal- 

 mouth, and Lexington, Mass. 



In the plans of the United States 

 Geological Survey for the coming 

 year, Mr. N. H. Darton, Chief of the 

 Bureau of Western Hydrology, is ar- 

 ranging to make a thorough investiga- 

 tion of the artesian water supply in 

 the region around Great Falls. 



In connection with the work of the 

 Milk River project the following as- 

 signments have been made to Mr. Cy- 

 rus C. Babb, engineer in charge ; L. E. 

 Grandke, engineer ; A. H. Perkins, en- 

 gineer ; C. T. Prall, assistant engineer ; 

 L. R. Stockman, assistant engineer; 

 Arthur T. Nelson, civil engineer; Jo- 

 seph B. S. Mclntosh, assistant engi- 

 neer; M. A. Woodell, stenographic 

 field assistant; E. J. Fisher, engineer- 

 ing aid ; J. S. Bingham, engineering 

 aid ; J. H. Sloan, engineering aid; H. 

 M. Morse, engineering aid ; A. M. 

 Grain, engineering aid. 



Mr. George A. Hammond, superin- 

 tendent of diamond drilling, U. S. 

 Reclamation Service, has been directed 

 to make plans for boring for founda- 

 tion at Gore Canyon, in Colorado, at 

 what is known as the Kremmling res- 

 ervoir site. 



Ben F. Dupuy, has been appointed 

 engineering aid and ordered to report 

 to Supervising Engineer L. H. Taylor, 

 Hazen, Nevada, for work in connec- 

 tion with the Truckee-Carson project. 

 Mr. Dupuy is a graduate of the Ohio 

 State University with the degree of 

 C. E., and has had considerable expe- 

 rience, especially in connection with 

 railroads. 



The Secretary of the Interior has 

 executed the contract and approved 

 the bond of T. P'Keefe & Company, 

 of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for the 

 erection of an eight-room school house 

 in the city of Hobart, Oklahoma. 



The Stevens-Sweetman Mercantile. 

 Company, Mondak, Montana, has 

 been awarded the contract for furnish- 

 ing the material for building required 

 under the Fort Buford project, their 

 bid, $2,126.89. being the lowest. 



