1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



141 



A small forest reserve has been es- 

 tablished in Mesa county, Colorado, 

 covering twelve sections of land, or 

 7,680 acres, in order to protect the 

 headwaters of East Creek, from which 

 the citizens of the town of Fruita, Col- 

 orado, desire to draw their water sup- 

 ply by constructing a pipe line more 

 than twenty-four miles in length, at 

 an estimated cost of $75,000 for a con- 

 tinuous flow of one "second foot," a 

 stream of one cubic foot per second. 



The great outlay involved in this 

 undertaking makes it imperative that 

 a continuous supply of water shall be 

 assured in advance. This can only be 

 done by firmly protecting the wooded 

 area at the headwaters of East Creek 

 from fires and further inroads by lum- 

 bermen. 



Promotions Mr. W. G. Weigle, of 

 and Assign- the Forest Service, has 

 ments ,, r . .' 



gone to Wisconsin to 



mark timber which the Office of In- 

 dian Affairs has sold under contract 

 on Indian Reservations there. 



Congress has empowered the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior to dispose of 

 timber on Indian Reservations in such 

 way as is best for the Indians' welfare, 

 and in order that such timber shall be 

 cut in a manner to furnish the Indians 

 the best business returns not only now 

 but in the future, the Indian Office has 

 asked the Forest Service to co-operate 

 by marking the trees to be cut and 

 supervising the logging. 



The reservations on which Mr. Wei- 

 gle will mark timber are the Flambeau 

 and Bad River reservations. 



William Hurst, of the Forest Ser- 

 vice, formerly Assistant Forest Ran- 

 ger on the Dixie Reserve, in Utah, has 

 passed the recent supervisor's exami- 

 nation, and has been assigned to the 

 position of Forest Supervisor of the 

 Reaver Forest Reserve in the same 

 state. 



The Forest Service announces the 

 promotion of two Forest Supervisors 

 to the salary of $1,400 per annum for 

 high efficiency and on their record as 

 supervisors. They are : J. R. Bell, 

 Forest Supervisor of the San Jacinto 



and Trabuco Canyon reserves, in south- 

 ern California; and E. S. Morrissey, 

 of the Wichita Forest Reserve, in Ok- 

 lahoma. 



Madison B. Elliott has been ap- 

 pointed Supervisor of the Tahoe and 

 Yuba Forest Reserves, in California. 



Dr. H. K. Porter, of Delta, Colo., 

 has been appointed Forest Supervisor 

 of the Uncompahgre Forest Reserve, 

 in that state, and took charge Febru- 

 ary 21, with headquarters at Mont- 

 rose. 



Forest Superintendent D. B. Sheller 

 has been placed in temporary charge 

 of the Yuba Forest Reserve, in Cali- 

 fornia, with headquarters at Nevada 

 City, Cal. 



TimberTest- Mr. C. G. Crawford, of 



Pr g es a e n r d va t ion the *>"* Service, re- 

 cently went to Pottsville, 

 Pa., to inspect the work which is being 

 conducted in co-operation with the 

 Philadelphia and Reading Coal and 

 Iron Co. to determine the advisability 

 and the best method of treating with 

 preservatives the timber in the com- 

 pany's mines. The investigation has 

 so far progressed very satisfactorily, 

 and the company has recently issued 

 an order that all their mine props must 

 be peeled, as recommended by the For- 

 est Service, an order which will be 

 strictly enforced by the company. 



Loblolly pine is very extensively 

 used in the mines of the company for 

 mine props. This wood, when untreat- 

 ed, is subject to very rapid decay, so 

 that timbers must frequently be re- 

 newed. Any means of reducing the 

 frequency of necessary renewals would 

 mean a large saving in timber. Even 

 the addition of three months to the life 

 of the props would render desirable 

 such preliminary outlay as this would 

 entail. 



The timber testing station of the 

 Forest Service at Lafayette, Ind., has 

 begun a series of tests upon Norway 

 pine and tamarack grown in Minne- 

 sota. The value of these woods for 

 paving blocks and building material 

 will be determined. 



