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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



July 



Bureau is apparent. The work will 

 be completed this week at Dover, but 

 will be continued for the next two 

 weeks at Thorndale, Pa. 



Example of Profit in Forestry 



The Medicine Bow Forest Reserve 

 in Wyoming is furnishing a good ex- 

 ample of what can be done by practical 

 work in the national forests. The re- 

 serve was created about three years 

 ago, and in the last two years the cash 

 receipts for timber have been $25,- 

 449.61. Another sale of $10,000 worth 

 of timber is just being completed. The 

 timber is largely lodgepole pine with 

 some Englemann spruce, and it is be- 

 ing cut for railroad ties, mine props, 

 and a little for lumber. The supply 

 in this reserve is very large, and with 

 judicious management may be made 

 continuous. The present cutting is 

 only a proper thinning of the forest, 

 taking trees that can well be spared, 

 and the condition of the forest is being 

 improved. All the cutting has been 

 clone by the same contractors and the 

 work has been of the highest charac- 

 ter. There has not been the slightest 

 friction in the enforcement of govern- 

 ment cutting regulations, nor has 

 there been a day's delay in the pay- 

 ment for timber sold. 



Tree Planting; in Southern Cali- 

 fornia 



The annual report on the forest 

 planting operations which the Bureau 

 of Forestry is carrying on in the San 

 Gabriel Mountains of southern Cali- 

 fornia has reached Washington. It 

 shows very satisfactory progress in all 

 lines. The heavy rains the past sea- 

 son and the large supply of nursery 

 transplants made possible the first ex- 

 tensive planting on the chaparral 

 slopes. In all 35,700 trees were set 

 out. To demonstrates the suitability 

 of various trees, fourteen different spe- 

 were used, which were set in dif- 

 ' ferent types of chaparral growth at al- 

 titudes ranging from 2,000 to 2,500 

 feet. These trees are in good condi- 

 tion and have already started growth. 

 The size of the lath house at the Hen- 

 ninger Flats nursery was increased 



one-third, giving 11,520 square feet 

 of seedbeds. This space was sown to 

 seeds this spring and has a capacity of 

 300,000 one-year-old trees. The seed- 

 lings grown in the seedbeds last year 

 were transplanted to nursery beds in 

 open ground in March. The total 

 number transplanted was 210,700, and 

 consisted of ten important species, the 

 most promising of which for moun- 

 tain planting are big-cone spruce, 

 Coulter, knob-cone, and western yel- 

 low pine, and incense cedar. The re- 

 port shows an increasing public inter- 

 est in the matter of reforesting and 

 protecting the important watersheds 

 of California. Business men are giv- 

 ing more thought to the subject and 

 it is a matter of discussion in many 

 conventions and public meetings. The 

 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 

 has this year contributed $1,500, and 

 the Pasadena Board of Trade $500 to- 

 wards the reforestation work in the 

 San Gabriel Mountains. 



Free Use of Timber and Stone 



Regarding the free use of timber 

 and stone, the new regulations for 

 use of the forest reserves contain the 

 following statements : 



The law gives the Secretary of Ag- 

 griculture discretion to allow or re- 

 fuse the free use of forest reserve 

 tirpber and stone, under such regula- 

 tions as he may prescribe, by "bona 

 fide settlers, miners, residents, and 

 prospectors for minerals, for firewood, 

 fencing, building, mining, prospecting, 

 and other domestic purposes as may 

 be needed by such person for such 

 purposes; such timber to be used with- 

 in the state or territory, respectively, 

 where such reservations may be lo- 

 cated, and by the United States." 



The free use privilege may be 

 granted to settlers, farmers, prospec- 

 tors, or similar persons w r ho may not 

 reasonably be required to purchase, 

 and who have not on their own lands 

 or claims, or on lands controlled by 

 them, a sufficient or practicably acces- 

 sible supply of timber or stone for the 

 purposes named in the law. It may 

 also be granted to school and road 



