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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



October 



The Morris 

 Act Should 

 Stand 



convincingly the question of the fitness 

 of the reserve lands for farming. Mr. 

 Charles Cristadoro contributes an in- 

 teresting paper on the effect of forests 

 on the Upper Mississippi River, a sub- 

 ject to which he has devoted much 

 study. 



Mrs. Lydia Phillips Wil- 

 liams, chairman of the 

 Forestry Committees of 

 State and General Federation of Wo- 

 men's Clubs, and who has had a long 

 and intimate acquaintance with the re- 

 gion embraced in the Minnesota Na- 

 tional Forest Reserve, has the follow- 

 ing to say about the repeal of the Mor- 

 ris act: "The Morris act? Why, all 

 who are disinterested and know the 

 facts want the Morris act to stand ! It 

 has proved a greater success than was 

 even hoped for by the friends of for- 

 estry. 



"The opposition comes from land 

 speculators, 'long on town-sites.' The 

 fact that the Indians receive under 

 the Morris act more than five times 

 as much for their timber as they ever 

 before received ought to satisfy them, 

 and the statement of Mr. Gifford Pin- 

 chot, and other foresters, that the 'seed 

 is taking' and conditions are favorable 



to the reproduction of the forest, sat- 

 isfies the friends of forestry. 



"These facts, together with the ad- 

 ditional one, that the soil is non-agri- 

 cultural, is sufficient to convince every 

 fair-minded person that the best in- 

 terests of all are conserved by the pres- 

 ent law, and it should stand. If sel- 

 fish motives could be 'run to earth' in 

 this forest reserve agitation, Minne- 

 sota could furnish 'Frenzied Finance' 

 an interesting chapter. The same agi- 

 tators are back of this movement to 

 repeal the Morris law that are anxious 

 for the Winnibigoshish reservoirs to 

 be abandoned. At the late public hear- 

 ing the investigation freshet nearly 

 overflowed these remarkable speci- 

 mens of public benefactors and they 

 'took to the woods for cover.' 



"Mr. Rehse, our artist, secured a 

 good snapshot of them on the run. We 

 readily recognize in the picture, the 

 real estate firm which has fought the 

 forest reserve. What noble speci- 

 mens ! ! ! 



"If right sentiment prevails and 

 'graft' does not close the voice of the 

 Minnesota press and choke the utter- 

 ance of bur congressmen the Morris 

 law will stand. " 



Progress of The work of the Recla- following tables refers only to land 



Reclamation ma ti O n Service in re- to be benefited by the portion of the 



claiming the arid lands project frst undertaken. Nearly every 



of the west is progressing rapidly. The project is capable of extension so as 



acreage indicated as irrigable in the to redeem many more thousand acres. 



PROJECTS NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 



Amt. set aside 



State. Projects. for beginning 



construction. 



Arizona Salt River $3,600,000 



Cal. and Arizona. . Yuma 3,000,000 



Colorado Uncompahgre 



Idaho Minidoka 



Montana Huntley 



Mont. & N. D Ft. Buford 



Neb. & Wyo North Platte. . . 



Nevada Truckee-Carson 



New Mexico Hondo , 



S. Dakota . Belle Fourche 



2,500,000 

 i ,300,000 



900,000 

 i ,800,000 

 3,500,000 

 2,740,000 



280,000 

 2,100,000 



Wyoming Shoshone 2,250,000 



Acres 

 irrigable. 

 180,000 

 85,000 

 125,000 

 60,000 

 35,000 

 60,000 



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