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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



November 



General 

 Reserve Work 



available, as evidenced by the thous- 

 ands of acres of cut-over lands outside 

 the reserve, which are not and can not 

 be placed under cultivation. 



An investigation will be 

 made to determine the 

 extent of damage being 

 done to forest reserves by fumes .from 

 smelters in the copper region of Mon- 

 tana. Upon the results of this investi- 

 gation will depend the action to be 

 taken in a number of smelter cases 

 throughout the West. 



Forest Supervisor Coleman, of the 

 Shasta Reserve, has been instructed to 

 build a telephone line on the western 

 portion of his reserve. The proposed 

 line will connect five ranger stations 

 with the office headquarters and will 

 simplify the administration and fire 

 protection. A special feature of the 

 line is a branch connecting with a 

 lookout point, where fires can be seen 

 over a large portion of the reserve and 

 reported to headquarters. 



Four miles of telephone line have 

 been completed in the Salt Lake Re- 



serve, connecting the rangers' head- 

 quarters and the nursery with the su- 

 pervisor's headquarters. Eighteen- 

 foot red fir poles, 7 inches at the top 

 ends, were used and were set 4 feet in 

 the ground. 



Forest Supervisor Charlton, of the 

 San Gabriel and San Bernardino Re- 

 serves, will undertake this winter a 

 large amount of fire-line work for the 

 protection of the country in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of Riverside, and the lo- 

 cal residents have subscribed some 

 $2,000 to aid in this work. The burn- 

 ing of a fire line on each side of the 

 Santa Fe line crossing the Cajon Pass 

 and the burning of wide fire lines 

 through dangerous grass country at 

 the foot of the mountains outside the 

 San Bernardino Reserve probably ac- 

 counts for the excellent protection ac- 

 corded the reserves during the past 

 season. The rangers burned this fire 

 line at night when the wind was blow- 

 ing away from the reserve line, and 

 four or five men sometimes burned 

 two to three miles in one night. 



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UNITED STATES 



CLAMATION SERVICE 





Government Irrigation Work During the Month 



Klamath 

 Project 



The Reclamation Ser- 

 vice has been authorized 

 to purchase the property 

 of the Jesse D. Carr Land & Live- 

 stock Company, for use in connection 

 with Klamath irrigation project, Ore- 

 gon-California. The authority carries 

 with it permission to make a payment 

 of $170,000, or about 90 per cent of 

 the total purchase price. 



Although the natural advantages of 

 the project are great, there have been 

 many annoying delays in adjusting 



the details of acquiring property of 

 corporations and land owners required 

 by the Government in connection with 

 the Klamath project. This step will 

 therefore be hailed with much satis- 

 faction by all parties concerned, as in- 

 dicating material progress. The prop- 

 erty acquired by this purchase em- 

 braces the Clear Creek reservoir and 

 certain other lands essential to the pro- 

 ject. 



A large part of the delay was due 

 to the failure of the company to per- 



