Forestry and Irrigation. 



VOL. XL 



SEPTEMBER, 1905. 



No. 9 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Much Needed Every reader of FORES- 

 Forest TRY AND IR RI GATION is 



earnestly requested to 

 weigh well the reasons advanced in 

 this number for the establishment of 

 national forest reserves in the South- 

 ern Appalachian Mountains and the 

 White Mountains of New Hampshire, 

 It remains for the thoughtful and pa- 

 triotic citizens of the country to work 

 up a sentiment so strong for these re- 

 serves that Congress will be compelled 

 to take early and favorable action in 

 the matter. Tremendous business in- 

 terests in the regions themselves are 

 vitally concerned, the agricultural and 

 manufacturing industries of wide sur- 

 rounding country are no less seriously 

 affected, consequently the movement 

 for these two forest reserves becomes 

 one that affects our general prosperity, 

 The American Forestry Associa- 

 tion, the Society for the Protection of 

 New Hampshire Forests and the 

 Massachusetts Forestry Association 

 have entered upon an active campaign 

 to secure the early passage by Con- 

 gress of bills creating the Southern 

 Appalachian and White Mountain 

 Forest Reserves. In this work these 

 organizations deserve the hearty sup- 

 port of every person desirous of pre- 

 serving and utilizing the resources of 

 two rare regions whose welfare affect 

 the whole country A careful reading 

 of the articles in this number, it is felt, 

 will enlist the co-operation of persons 

 who are not already familiar with the 

 situation. 



The State of Wyoming 

 Progress . g to be con g ratu i a ted on 



the prospects of devel- 

 opment under the Reclamation law, 



as the work of the various engineer- 

 ing .parties proceeds. 



The Pathfinder tunnel was corn- 

 pleted on August 15, the contract for 

 the construction of the Pathfinder dam 

 was let during the month and work 

 promptly begun. Recently the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior awarded two im- 

 portant contracts in connection with 

 the Shoshone project: The Shoshone 

 dam to Prendergast & Clarkson, of 

 Chicago, 111., for $515,730., and the 

 Corbet tunnel to Chas. Spear, of Bil- 

 lings, Mont., for $594,325. 



The dimensions of the Shoshone 

 dam are well known. The Corbett 

 tunnel will be about 18,000 feet long 

 and will be used to divert about 1,000 

 cubic feet of water per second from 

 the river for irrigating lands in the 

 vicinity of Garland and Frannie, Wyo- 

 ming. 



Pumping It is be li e ved by the en- 



Proj ects in ineers of the R ec lama- 



North Dakota . Qn g erv j ce ; n charge 

 Qf ^ wQrk that SQ far ag the { _ 



neeri features and the people are 

 concerned, the Williston, Nesson, and 

 Buford . Trenton pu mping projects in 

 North Dakota win be ready for CQn _ 



struction next spring . 



Du . the latter t of August> 



a , of engineers arrive d in 

 N()rth Dakota for the purpose of mak _ 

 . & reconnaissance of the statc to lo- 

 ^ feasible pumping projects. A 

 hasty examination of the territory was 

 first ' madet the report of Pro f. p. A. 

 Wilder, of the North Dakota Geologi- 

 cal Survey, and the maps of the Mis- 

 souri River Commission studied, and 

 field work was commenced. Thief 

 Engineer, F. H. Newell, directed that 



