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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



October 



economically performed by force ac- 

 count. 



The Secretary of the Interior has 

 rejected the bid of Henry C. DeLaney. 

 of Williston, North Dakota, in the 

 sum of $166,289 for the construction 

 of canals, ditches and structures un- 

 der the Bufolrd-Trenton irrigation 

 project, North Dakota. 



The work involves the excavation 

 of about 410,000 cubic yards of earth, 



and furnishing- labor and material for 

 a pumping station and various struc- 

 tures requiring about 140,000 feet B. 

 M. lumher, about 2,000 cubic yards of 

 concrete, and about 25,000 pounds of 

 structural steel. 



Mr. DeLaney's bid was the only one 

 received, and was rejected as unreas- 

 onably high. 



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FOREST SERVIC 



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The Month in Government Forest Work 



Personal 

 Notes 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 

 Forester, returned on 

 Thursday, October 11, 

 from an extended western tour. While 

 away, he attended the Irrigation Con- 

 gress at Boise City, Idaho. 



At this Congress, Hon. Weldon 

 Brinton Heyburn, junior Senator 

 from Idaho, took strong ground 

 against the policy of forest reserves, 

 asserting, among other things, that 

 forests exert no influence upon stream 

 flow. 



Mr. Pinchot's advocacy of the pol- 

 icy in question was, however, .support- 

 ed by numerous other speakers. 



Leaving Boise City, Mr. Pinchot 

 visited the Big Horn and Yellowstone 

 reserves, returning thence to Wash- 

 ington some weeks earlier than had 

 been expected. 



Mr.- Herbert A. Smith, Editor, re- 

 cently spoke before the Kentucky 

 State Development Association, at 

 Winchester. His subject was, "For- 

 est Resources of Kentucky." 



As this publication goes to press, 

 Mr. George W. Woodruff, of the Di- 



vision of Law, leaves for Lexington, 

 Kentucky, to address, on Oct. 23d, the 

 meeting of the State Bureau of Labor, 

 Agriculture, and Statistics. He is al- 

 so to speak at the annual meeting of 

 the American Civic Association, at 

 Milwaukee, Wis., on Oct. 26th, on the 

 Appalachian reserve. 



Mr. J. M. McVean, of the Division 

 of Law, has for some weeks been en- 

 gaged in a tour of inspection of some 

 of the western forest reserves. 



Forest 



Extension 



Work 



Mr. E. A. Sterling, 

 Chief of the Division of 

 Forest Extension, re- 

 turned to Washington, Oct. 12th, from 

 an extended inspection trip through 

 the West. In the course of this trip 

 Mr. Sterling visited the planting sta- 

 tions in the San Gabriel, Santa Bar- 

 bara, Salt Lake, Pikes Peak, and Dis- 

 mal River reserves, and attended su- 

 pervisors' meetings at Boise and Port- 

 land ; in connection with city water 

 shed and rangers' nursery work, he 

 also visited other reserves in Idaho, 

 Wyoming, Montana and Arizona. 

 He started a nursery establishment in 



