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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



field at the end of last summer's work, 

 and since you do not propose to re- 

 enter active service, it does not matter 

 when your resignation takes effect. 

 Some date, however, must be fixed for 

 the sake of the record, and I shall ac- 

 cordingly recommend to the Secretary 

 of Agriculture the acceptance of your 

 resignation to take effect upon the 1st 

 of March. 



With high appreciation of the good 

 hard work you have done (hard work 



purchase of 25,000 acres of land in 

 Atlantic county and the establishing 

 thereon, and occupying the whole 

 tract, of a forest reservation according 

 to the ideas of Governor Stokes as 

 embraced in the law passed last winter 

 creating the board and providing for 

 such reservations. 



The proposition is modified some- 

 what by the present owners, who will 

 present to the board an opportunity of 

 purchasing the tract at a very reason- 



Shoshone Dam Site. 

 Reclamation Service. 



Highest dam in the world; to be built at this point by U. S. 

 Dimensions: 310 feet high, 85 feet long at bottom, 200 feet at top. 



which has been to you a source of ex- 

 pense, not of revenue), and with all 

 good wishes for the future, believe me, 

 Very sincerely yours, 



(Signed) Gifford Pinchot, 



Forester. 



Forest The New Jersey State 



Reservation Board of p orest p ark 



in New Terse y ,-* /-* 



Reservation Commission- 

 ers is considering a proposition for the 



able figure. It is made up of good for- 

 est land and also contains fine water 

 power. Two offers have been made to 

 the board, one to purchase the lands in 

 their entirety, the other to acquire it 

 minus the water power. The price 

 would be made less under the latter 

 proposition. According to the report 

 of the state geologist upon the water 

 supply, this water power could be 

 made to develop 500 horse power. 



