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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



November 



and telegraph poles. The work cen- 

 ters at Los Angeles, and an agent of 

 the Forest Service will immediately 

 take up the preliminaries there. 



Oregon cedar is the tree chiefly used 

 in this region for poles. The experi- 

 ments will be devoted not only to the 

 handling of this wood, but to a search 

 for satisfactory substitutes among 

 other species. Possible substitutes are 

 western yellow pine, incense cedar, 

 redwood, and eucalyptus. The com- 

 parative value of these will be studied, 



Los Angeles and Pacific Railway Com- 

 pany, the Pacific Railway Company, 

 and the Los Angeles Railway Com- 

 pany. 



Trails in During the coming win- 



ter and spring many 

 miles of trails will be 

 built in the forest reserves. One of 

 the chief cares of the Forest Service in 

 the management of the reserves is to 

 protect them against fire, and no 

 means of controlling fires is so effect- 

 ive as preventing them. If a forest fire 



Forest 

 Reserves 



Grand River Canyon, Colorado, looking up stream from above mouth of 



Rapid Creek. 



and those which promise best will be 

 subjected to such seasoning and pre- 

 servative treatment as the Forest Ser- 

 vice may recommend. In general, the 

 wood will be handled in much the 

 same manner as that which has proved 

 successful in other work done by the 

 service. 



The companies which will co-op- 

 erate with the Forest Service are the 

 Pacific Light and Power Company, the 

 Edison Electric Company, the Los 

 Angeles Gas and Electric Company, 

 the Home Telephone Company, the 



can be reached soon after it begins, it 

 is usually possible to extinguish it be- 

 fore much damage is done ; but if it 

 gets well under way it is sometimes 

 impossible to put it out. 



The trails that are to be built by the 

 Forest Service will afford a means of 

 reaching all parts of the forest re- 

 serves on horseback, and the fire lines 

 will form vantage points from which 

 the fire may be attacked, or against 

 which it may be directed and there 

 controlled. 



