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Vol. XII. 



NOVEMBER, 1906. 



No. 11 



NEWS AND NOTES 



. The annual meeting- of 



Annual ,, A . -^ , 



Meeting tne American forestry 



Association will be held 

 in Washington on Wednesday, Jan- 

 uary 9, 1907. 



In accordance with the by-laws, the 

 object of this meeting is to elect of- 

 ficers and transact such business as 

 requires to come before the entire as- 

 sociation. 



The coming meeting should be of 

 wide interest to members of the asso- 

 ciation and to all friends of the for- 

 ests. 



The topic to which chief attention 

 will be given will be the White Moun- 

 tain and Southern Appalachian Re- 

 serves, their significance, the import- 

 ance of passing the bill establishing 

 them, and the methods to be employed 

 to secure such legislation. 



A large attendance is greatly de- 

 sired. 



Full details as to hour, place of meet- 

 ing, and program will be published in 

 the December number of Forestry 

 and Irrigation. 



National The Commissioners of 



Drainage the District of Columbia 



Congress have designated F. H. 



Newell, A. P. Davis, and C. J. Blanch- 

 ard of the U. S. Reclamation Service. 



and H. M. Wilson, of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, to represent the Dis- 

 trict at the National Drainage Con- 

 gress to be held at Oklahoma City, 

 Okla., on December 5, 6, and 7. 



The problems of reclamation now 

 being solved by the Government 

 through the agency of the Reclama- 

 tion Service are very similar to those 

 of drainage, and, in fact, the ques- 

 tion of drainage enters into reclama- 

 tion equally with that of irrigation. 

 The successful results already attain- 

 ed by the service under the terms of 

 the act of June 17, 1902, by which over 

 $40,000,000 are being invested in the 

 West show what can be done by the 

 National Government under a com- 

 prehensive law. 



The objects of the National Drain- 

 age Congress is to start a campaign 

 of education that will arouse the peo- 

 ple to the importance of a general 

 movement for the reclamation of lands 

 by drainage. 



Government 

 Accounting 



Mr. N. E. Webster, Jr., 

 accountant for the U. S. 

 Reclamation Service, re- 

 cently attended the annual convention 

 of the American Association of Public 

 Accountants, at Columbus, Ohio. 



