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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



February- 



great work that was subsequently to 

 be entered upon. 



The director of the Geological Sur- 

 vey has demonstrated administrative 

 capacity of a very high character. Al- 

 though his special scientific specialty' 

 was the examination of fossils, yet the 

 expanding area of his bureau had 

 turned him gradually into a great ad- 

 ministrator. His capacity has been 

 recognized by Congress, by our appro- 

 priations committees, and by all who 



the responsibility of their acceptance 

 or their rejection. 



Under him is Mr. Newell, a gradu- 

 ate of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, a man who entered the 

 service when he was very young, an 

 enthusiast on the subject of irrigation, 

 and who during fourteen years' patient 

 investigation and patient work has 

 been preparing for this great work of 

 construction. Those are the two men 

 upon whom the responsibility for this 

 work centered. 



Hon. FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS 



United States Senator from Nevada, one of the fore- 

 most exponents of National Irrigation. 



have been brought in contact with him 

 hy a prompt acquiescence in almost 

 everything he has asked. He has been 

 termed in this body the greatest getter 

 of appropriations in the service of the 

 government, and he has been direct 

 and straightforward, has presented his 

 plans clearly, and without urgency, 

 and has placed upon the committees of 

 the Senate and the House themselves 



Now, what did they do? Select 

 commissions to divide responsibility 

 as to administration ? Not at all. They 

 drew into the force gradually the men 

 who had distinguished themselves all 

 over the country as topographers, as 

 hydrographers, as hydraulic engineers, 

 as constructing engineers, and the re- 

 sult is that today we have in the em- 

 ployment of that service a number of 



