1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



139 



derlying coal are some which are better 

 adapted for tree growth than for rais- 

 ing other crops ; other lands have sunk, 

 owing to the removal of the coal, and 

 are worthless except for tree growth. 

 By planting such lands with forest 

 trees they can be given a market value 

 which they do not now possess. 



It is proposed to plant about five 

 hundred acres with chestnut, Euro- 

 pean larch, and other suitable species, 

 from which mine props may be ex- 

 pected after about twenty years. 



The Louisville and Nashville Rail- 

 road Company has requested the For- 

 est Service to supervise the manage- 

 ment of its catalpa plantations at El 

 Dorado, Shawneetown, and McLeans- 

 boro, 111. These lands were examined 

 by a representative of the Forest 

 Service last summer, and it was rec- 

 ommended that the young trees be cut 

 back to the ground this winter. It is 

 the desire of the railroad company to 

 have these recommendations carried 

 out under the expert supervision of the 

 Service. Many of the plantations es- 

 tablished by the railroads in the past 

 have failed because of improper meth- 

 ods in planting, unwise choice of 

 species, and lack of care after the trees 

 were set out. The Forest Service is 

 now in a position to co-operate with 

 railroad companies in securing bet- 

 ter results from plantations establish- 

 ed, and in starting new ones. 



The Forest Service has recently 

 made an examination of the grounds 

 of the U. S. Marine Sanatorium at Ft. 

 Stanton, New Mexico, with a view of 

 recommending forest planting. The 

 prime object is to secure shelterbelts 

 which will break the force of the strong 

 winds of that region. A series of such 

 shelterbelts will be planted next spring 

 with coniferous trees furnished from 

 the Forest Service nursery near Pasa- 

 dena, southern California, and detailed 

 plans are being prepared for additional 

 work of this kind in future years. 



The Mavor and Park Commission 

 of Los Angeles have recently approved 

 a plan whereby the city will appro- 

 priate $500 to be used by the Forest 



Service in establishing forest planta- 

 tions in Griffith Park. A planting plan 

 for this park was prepared by the Ser- 

 vice in 1903, but as yet very little 

 planting has been done. The present 

 arrangement is for the city to contrib- 

 ute the necessary funds, and for the 

 Service to execute the planting plan, 

 using plant material from the govern- 

 ment nursery in the San Gabriel 

 Mountains, thirty miles from Los An- 

 geles. This should secure the best of 

 plant material and expert direction of 

 the work, with the result that the 3,000 

 acres of denuded and brush land com- 

 prising Griffith Park will eventually be 

 converted into a forest. 



An application for a planting plan 

 has been received from the Hillen- 

 brand Company, of Batesville, Ind. It 

 is a company dealing in hardwood 

 lumber, piling, and cordwood, and they 

 desire to secure the co-operation of the 

 Forest Service in planting certain 

 areas for timber supply and to serve as 

 an object-lesson to the general public. 



A bank in Luverne, Minn., has just 

 applied to the Forest Service for a 

 forest-planting plan, for the purpose 

 of raising trees on some hundred acres 

 of land owned by the bank, in order to 

 secure a future income from the tim- 

 ber. About twenty acres of the tract 

 is level, and the remainder rolling. The 

 soil ranges from sandy to loamy. Trees 

 which thrive in the neighborhood are 

 poplar, birch, tamarack, and various 

 evergreens. Red and white pine, Nor- 

 way spruce, and European larch are 

 considered desirable trees for planting 

 on this land. 



Last spring the Forest Service start- 

 ed a forest nursery at Fort Bayard, 

 New Mexico, in order to secure trees 

 for planting the watershed of Cameron 

 Creek, which furnishes the water sup- 

 ply for the military post and hospital 

 on the Ft. Bayard Military Reserva- 

 tion. The seed sown was mostly west- 

 ern yellow pine, of which there are 

 now 450,000 seedlings. Four-fifths of 

 these will be transplanted this spring 

 to secure better root development. A 

 limited amount of seed of the Torrey, 



