1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



577 



5,000 barrels of Portland cement for 

 the Garden City irrigation project, 

 Kansas. This cement is to be furnished 

 for $1.60 per barrel, f. o. b. cars at 

 Iola. 



A contract on behalf of the United 

 States has been executed and the bond 

 of Nels L. Olson, of Butte, Mont., ap- 

 proved for the construction of Divi- 

 sion 1, Garland canal, Shoshone irri- 

 gation project, Wyoming. This work 

 involves the excavation of about 600,- 

 000 cubic yards of earth, about 96,000 

 cubic yards of rock and shale, and the 

 construction of incidental structures 

 about 15 miles northeast of Cody, 

 Wyo. Mr. Olson's bid was $270,- 

 746.60. 



The Reclamation Service has pur- 

 chased two lots in the town of North 



Yakima, Wash., upon which it pro- 

 poses to erect an office building in con- 

 nection with the Yakima project. 



In order to expedite work on the 

 Milk River irrigation project, Mon- 

 tana, the Secretary of the Treasury 

 has appointed L. R. Stockton, assist- 

 ant engineer in the Reclamation Ser- 

 vice at Browning, Mont., inspector of 

 customs, without compensation, to be 

 under the direction of the collector of 

 customs at Great Falls, Mont. 



The Reclamation Ser- 



Town Water yice has f orma H y re - 



upp y leased three cubic feet of 



water per second of time, from the 

 Clealum River, for the use of the town 

 of Clealum, Wash., and its inhabitants 

 for domestic and municipal purposes. 



MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICAN FORESTERS 



TWO very interesting meetings of 

 the Society of American Foresters 

 were held on the evenings of Decem- 

 ber 6 and 13, at the home of the presi- 

 dent, Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 161 5 Rhode 

 Island avenue, Washington. On the 

 earlier date Inspector E. T. Allen pre- 

 sented a paper on "How to Make For- 

 est Reserve Work Attractive." 



Mr. Allen showed the importance 

 and value of the supervisors and ran- 

 gers' meetings, inaugurated the past 

 year, to afford opportunity for ex- 

 change of experience and a chance to 

 learn more of technical and office 

 methods. 



Mr. Allen said : "The average super- 

 visor is charged with the administra- 

 tion of 2,000,000 acres, worth intrins- 

 ically $6,000,000, and as a protector of 

 public interests worth many times 

 more. He should be not only an ad- 

 ministrator, merchant, and lawyer, but 

 stockman, miner, lumberman, and for- 

 ester, and these suggest only a few of 

 his technical requirements, without 

 considering the general strength and 

 integrity which go with such a respon- 



sible position. I do not think it is too 

 much to say that in private business a 

 man actually competent to fill it, would 

 be considered cheap at $5,000 a year." 



On December 13 the subjects, 

 "Brush Burning as a Protective and 

 Silvicultural Measure," by Mr. Thos. 

 H. Sherrard, in charge of Forest Man- 

 agement in the Forest Service, and 

 "Forest Conditions in Southeastern 

 Alaska," by Supervisor W. A. Lan- 

 gille, engaged the attention of the for- 

 esters.' 



What is the best disposition of de- 

 bris after lumbering is a burning ques- 

 tion because the reproduction of the 

 best trees and therefore both the per- 

 petuity and improvement of the forest 

 depend so largely on the adaptation of 

 logging methods to the silvicultural re- 

 quirements of the trees which should 

 form the future stand. The differ- 

 ences in conditions character of the 

 trees, climate, soil, extent of grazing, 

 etc. make it impossible to prescribe 

 set rules for the disposition of slash. 

 Mr. Sherrard spoke from his own wide 

 experience and read extracts from let- 



