1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



529 



tional Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation ; J. E. Defebaugh, editor Amer- 

 ican Lumbermen ; Col. Geo. H. Emer- 

 son, vice-president, Northwestern 

 Lumber Company, and Gen. Chas. F. 

 Manderson, general solicitor Chicago, 

 Burlington and Quincy Railroad Com- 

 pany. 



This book has been called "The most 

 comprehensive and authoritative pub- 

 lication on the subject of forestry that 

 has yet been issued in the United 

 States." For the general reader who 

 wants to know what the forestry ques- 

 tion is and what to do about it, there 

 is no book which, on the whole, we 

 deem so useful as this. 



The book is printed on good paper, 

 in clear type ; it is well bound in cloth, 

 and contains 474 pages ; it sells at $1 

 per copy. 



To members of the American For- 

 estry Association this volume is now 

 offered at 50 cents per copy, post-paid, 

 with the hope that it may be largely 

 ordered and widely used for propa- 

 ganda. A copy will make an excel- 

 lent Christmas present. 



Again, to make converts, you must 

 have literature for general distribu- 

 tion. "The Need for the Forestry 

 Movement," is a neat, four-page folder 

 containing a compilation of telling facts 

 and testimonials, published by the 

 American Forestry Association to- 



gether with a list of its officers. Every 

 member of the Association should carry 

 a supply of these in his pocket, hand 

 them to friends whom he would in- 

 terest, and enclose them in his letters. 

 They can be had from the national of- 

 fice of the Association at 50 cents per 

 hundred, post-paid. 



Here is an opportunity for the for- 

 estry worker. Stock up with books 

 and folders, and set to work. Some 

 who may not care personally to hand 

 out circulars are in position to marl 

 them from their offices to friends 

 whom they would influence. You be- 

 long, perhaps, to some society or as- 

 sociation whose members should be 

 reached. Send them the folders ; or 

 send their names to the national office 

 of the Association, with remittance to 

 pay for folders. It will then mail 

 them out. 



The national office is working to the 

 limit ; but others, too, must work if 

 the forests are to be saved. The As- 

 sociation has now approximately five 

 thousand members. If each of these 

 will do what he can there will be rolled 

 up a tidal wave of public sentiment 

 whose potency no man can estimate. 

 .Let each do his part. 



Thomas Elmer Will, 



Secretary, American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. 



THE LA PLATA PROJECT 



Consulting Engineers Recommend Temporary 

 Abandonment Owing to the Excessive Cost 



A BOARD of consulting engineers 

 ** which recently made a thorough 

 field examination of the lands under 

 the La Plata irrigation project has 

 submitted a report to the chief engi- 

 neer of the Reclamation Service in 

 Washington. The La Plata project is 

 located along the northern side of the 

 San Juan River in northwestern New 

 Mexico, the greater portion of the land 



lying along the La Plata River, a trib- 

 utary of the San Juan. 



Farmers in this valley formerly re- 

 ceived an adequate water supply from 

 the La Plata River, but recent appro- 

 priations in Colorado divert all of the 

 normal flow before it reaches New 

 Mexico. The normal flow has been 

 greatly decreased in late years by the 

 deforestation of the mountain slopes 



