Forestry and Irrigation 



VOL. XL 



AUGUST, 1905. 



No. 8 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Special 



California 



Number 



The greater part of this 

 issue of FORESTRY AND 

 IRRIGATION is given up 

 to a discussion of the forest and water 

 problems of California. No state in 

 the country offers a more inviting field 

 to the student of economic questions 

 as affected by forests and waters ; to 

 the forest and irrigation engineers it 

 presents many striking problems, and 

 on their skill in solving these prob- 

 lems much of the future prosperity of 

 the state depends. In this number there 

 is a series of notable articles by the ex- 

 perts in charge of the California work 

 that deserve close reading. They out- 

 line very fully the work now going on, 

 and that to be taken up later. 



This California number, by the way, 

 follows the plan begun last month of 

 treating in particular of the forest and 

 water problems of a single state, with 

 a view to their better understanding. 

 In July the forest situation in Con- 

 necticut was discussed ; next month the 

 proposed Appalachian Forest Reserve 

 will receive special notice. The Octo- 

 ber issue will deal at length with Min- 

 nesota forests, and in November 

 Maryland will be taken up. 



Reclamation Mr. B. M. Hall, super- 

 Work m vising engineer of the U. 

 Southwest o -n 1 .L- o 



o. Reclamation bervice 



in charge of operations in New Mex- 

 ico, Texas and Oklahoma, reports that 

 field work in the valley of the Rio 

 Grande has been suspended on ac- 

 count of flood conditions, but the sur- 

 veys have already been carried to such 

 a point that plans and specifications 

 are being prepared for the main canal 

 in Mesilla Valley. 



Water users are fully awake to the 

 benefits which will acrue to them with 



the completion of the government ir- 

 rigation system, and are eager to co- 

 operate by pledging their lands 

 through the Water Users 'Association 

 formed for the purpose in both Texas 

 and New Mexico. 



Both the Rio Grande project and the 

 Yuma project on the Colorado River 

 in Arizona and California, involve 

 complicated international questions, 

 and it is probable that a draft for a 

 treaty between the two countries will 

 be submitted for the consideration of 

 the Department of State in the near 

 future. 



Work on the Hondo project under 

 the contract of the Taylor-Moore Con- 

 struction Company, which has been 

 taken over by the United States, is 

 partially completed. Recommendations 

 have been made that the contract for 

 constructing the earthwork on em- 

 bankments 3 and 4, consisting of about 

 200,000 cubic yards, be relet. It has 

 been decided to finish the remainder 

 of the work on force account. Plans 

 have been completed for the canal sys- 

 tem under this project, and final sur- 

 veys are being made. 



Rapid progress is being made in the 

 investigation looking to the * practic- 

 ability of purchasing the irrigation 

 system at Carlsbad. 



Two field parties are at work on the 

 Navajo project, Oklahoma. It is esti- 

 mated x that the Navajo reservoir on 

 the North Fork of Red River, will con- 

 serve a water supply sufficient for the 

 irrigation of nearly 75,000 acres. 



Coke The Forest Service has 



Company received an application 



to Plant , V 



for a planting plan from 



the H. C. Frick Coke Company, of 

 Uniontown- I'a., which has several 



