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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



December 



with the Irrigation and Drainage In- 

 vestigations of the Department of Ag- 

 riculture, has been placed in charge of 

 the Section of Reserve Engineering 

 and will have general supervision of 

 all engineering work on reserves done 

 by private interests or by the Forest 

 Service. 



Tests to determine the relative 

 strength of the various timbers on the 

 reserves are in progress at the Service 

 testing station at Seattle, Wash. The 

 test material now on hand includes Al- 

 pine fir and Engelmann spruce from 

 the Pecos Reserve, New Mexico ; red 

 fir and western yellow pine from the 

 Pikes Peak Reserve, Colorado ; Alpine 

 i fir, Engelmann spruce, and lodgepole 

 pine from the Medicine Bow Reserve, 

 Wyoming. 



J. B. Knapp, in charge of the Ser- 

 vice timber-testing station at Eugene, 

 Oregon, has accepted the directorship 

 of the testing laboratory of the Uni- 

 versity of Oregon, where the testing 

 station is located. 



During the past six months M. Cline 

 has spent a month or more at each of 

 the timber-testing laboratories, in or- 

 der to bring the testing methods up to 

 a uniform standard of efficiency. 



The following addresses 



Addresses on forestry subjects were 



delivered in November : 



Northeastern Iowa Horticultural 

 Society, Charles City, Iowa, November 

 20 to 22 ; H. P. Baker. 



National Slack Cooperage Manu- 

 facturers' Association, Chicago, 111.. 

 November 21 ; Findley Burns. 



National Hickory Manufacturers' 

 Association, Chicago, 111., November 

 22: H. B. Holroyd. 



University of Georgia (opening of 

 course in forestry). Athens, Ga., No- 

 vember 27; Alfred Gaskill. 



Wm. L. Hall has accepted an invita- 

 tion to address the Railway Club of 

 Pittsburg, Pa., on the evening of De- 

 cember 28. His subject will be ''Econ- 

 omy in Using Railroad Timber." 



Dr. A. L. Dean attended a meet- 

 ing of the Leather Chemists' Associa- 



tion in New York City November 22 

 and 23. The chemists state that all oak 

 extracts are now adulterated. 



A. F. Potter, inspector 

 Grazing of grazing, returned to 



Washington November 

 25. The grazing arrangements and 

 authorizations for 1907 will be taken 

 up and acted upon without delay. 



The Ekalaka Reserve, 

 Organization Montana, established No- 

 vember 5, has been placed 

 under administration, with Supervisor 

 J. F. Smith, of the Black Hills Re- 

 serve, in charge, with headquarters at 

 Deadwood, S. Dak. 



Supervisor Ira E. Todd, of the Lit- 

 tle Belt Reserve, Montana, has as- 

 sumed charge of the Snowy Mountains 

 Reserve, Montana, created November 

 5, with headquarters at Neihart, Mont. 



The Big Hole Reserve, Montana, es- 

 tablished November 5, is now under 

 administration, with Supervisor J. B. 

 Seely, of the Madison Reserve, in 

 charge of the Southern Division, with 

 headquarters at Sheridan, Mont., and 

 Supervisor E. A. Sherman, of the Hell 

 Gate and the Montana Division of the 

 Bitter Root reserves, in charge of the 

 northern portion, with headquarters at 

 Missoula, Mont. 



The Sierra Madre Reserve, Wyo- 

 ming, established November 5, has 

 been placed under administration, with 

 Supervisor L. G. Davis in charge, with 

 headquarters at Saratoga, Wyo. 



The Crazy Mountains Reserve, in 

 Montana, established August 10, has 

 been placed under administration, with 

 E. C. Russell, Forest Supervisor, of 

 the Absaroka Division of the Yellow- 

 stone Reserve, in charge. The Super- 

 visor's headquarters will be at Living- 

 ston, Mont. 



The Pryor Mountains Reserve, in 

 Montana, established November 6, has 

 been placed under administration, with 

 W. H. Pearce, Forest Supervisor, of 

 the Shoshone Division of the Yellow- 

 stone Reserve, in charge. The Super- 

 visor's headquarters will be at Wapiti, 

 Wyo. 



J. E. Burton and P. T. Coolidge, 



