1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



309 



whereabouts ; so that this new fire 

 alarm device ought apparently to pro- 

 duce excellent results. 



Mr. Clothier The Mississippi Agri- 

 SeTvke cultural and Mechanical 



College, at Agricultural 

 College, Miss., has recently created the 

 position of instructor of forestry and 

 plant breeding in the institution, and 

 Mr. George L. Clothier, of the United 

 States Forest Service, has been chosen 

 by the college authorities to fill this 

 important position. In addition to 

 giving forestry instruction in the col- 

 lege, Mr. Clothier will carry on propa- 

 ganda work in forestry in connection 

 with farmers' institutes and by means 

 of bulletins issued from the agricul- 

 tural experiment station. 



In co-operation with the Forest Ser- 

 vice a special study will be made of va- 

 rious forest problems of direct inter- 

 est to the state, among which are : 

 Forest Management for Woodlot 

 Owners ; Forest Planting for the Re- 

 clamation of Waste Lands; Method 

 for Preventing Erosion Through For- 

 est Planting and Preservation ; For- 

 est Survey of the State. The authori- 

 ties of the state have shown them- 

 selves fully alive to the need of such 

 work, and under the able direction of 

 Mr. Clothier we may expect that the 

 State of Mississippi will soon formu- 

 late a wise and practical forest policy. 



Forest Inspector Bene- 

 dict, of the Forest Ser- 

 vice, is now in temporay 

 charge of the Pinal Mountain Forest 

 Reserve, in Arizona. 



Mr. Robert J. Moore, forest ranger 

 in the Madison Forest Reserve, in 

 Montana, has been promoted to the 

 position of Forest Ranger in charge 

 of the recently created Elk Horn For- 

 est Reserve, in Montana, and estab- 

 lished headquarters in Highwood, 

 Montana, on September 2Oth. 



Forest Ranger W. W. Hooper, who 

 has been acting as ranger in charge of 

 the Leadville Forest Reserve, in Colo- 

 rado, has been placed permanently in 

 charge of that reserve. 



Forest 



Reserve 



Personals 



Forest Supervisor F. A. Fenn, of 

 the Forest Service, reports from Boise, 

 Idaho, that he assumed charge on Sep- 

 tember i of the Wiser, Sawtooth, and 

 Fayette Reserves, in Idaho. He has 

 been instructed to furnish the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture with the names of 

 nine men for appointment to the posi- 

 tion of forest ranger, to conduct the 

 business of the reserves, until the re- 

 sults of the Civil Service examinations 

 for the position of forest ranger are 

 made known. 



Mr. W. L. Veatch, of the Forest 

 Service, has resigned from the post of 

 supervisor of the White River Forest 

 Reserve, in Colorado, and Forest Ran- 

 ger Harry Gibler has been placed in 

 charge temporarily. 



Mr. Charles A. Scott, of the Forest 

 Service, who has been making a pre- 

 liminary examination of a nursery site 

 to be used for reforestation purposes 

 in the Garden City Forest Reserve, in 

 Kansas, will visit the Black Hills For- 

 est Reserve, in South Dakota, for the 

 purpose of collecting bull pine seeds. 

 The work of seed collection will prob- 

 ably engage Mr. Scott some three or 

 four weeks, after which time he will 

 return to Garden City. 



Forest Supervisor James E. Meeks, 

 of the Salt Lake Forest Reserve, in 

 Utah, transmitted his resignation on 

 September I2th. It was accepted and 

 Forest Ranger E. H. Clark, of the 

 Manti Forest Reserve, was ordered to 

 go to Murray, Utah, to assume charge 

 of the Salt Lake Forest Reserve. 



Cooperative As a result of the at- 



Work of tendance of a member of 



Forest Service , -,- o ,. 



the Forest Service at the 

 Farmers' Congress held at Amarillo, 

 Texas, in August, a tree-planting club 

 is to be organized in the Texas "Pan- 

 handle." This movement is of con- 

 siderable importance since the region 

 is naturally treeless, though there is 

 abundant evidence that certain kinds 

 of trees will grow, if properly planted 

 and cared for. The object of the or- 

 ganization is to encourage the making 

 of tree plantations, to experiment sys- 

 t^matically with trees that seem likely 



