1908 



IX THE DEPARTMENTS 



287 



Irrigable Land on Main Truckee Canal, Nevada 



Bartolome Fernandez land grants and 

 the original forest. A greater portion 

 of this area is covered with a fair stand 

 of yellow pine timber, which, although 

 it may not be of any great commercial 

 value at the present time, promises to 

 be of great importance in the future. 



In the other addition to the Man- 

 zano No. 2, on the ridge lying north- 

 west 'of the town of San Mateo, the re 

 are some scattered bodies of yellow 

 pine upon the higher points, while the 

 remaining area is clothed with a deii-e 

 stand of juniper and pinon, which will 

 average at least ten cords per acre. 



Cheap 



Cement 



Production 



During the year [907 



there were produced at 

 the cement mill at l\< 

 veil. i,n the Salt River project. Ari- 

 zona. 42,145 barrels of cement at an 

 average cost of Sj.Jj per barrel. The 

 mill was -hut d;>wn for over four ami 

 one-half months of the period, but all 

 expenses for office -alarie-. -uperin- 

 tendent's wages and -killed lab' 



kept on the payroll have been inchni 

 in estimating the unit cost. The cost 

 of repairs has also been included, but 

 no allowance has been ma<V for gen- 

 eral depreciation of the plant. The 

 shutting down of the mill wa> ncce- 

 tated by the lack of requirement- 

 cement by the contractor and the con- 

 sequent crowded condition ' f the 

 ^torage bin- for both the clinker and 

 the finished product. More vcr. the 

 mill, when running, wa- doil at 



only a lifle over one-half of its 

 n< >rmal capacity. I lad il been -<-d 



at full capacity continuously through- 

 out th 5t Of tl 

 output w: uld have been considerably 

 than Sj per barrel. 



Y.M.C.A.and Mr. Clarence 1. Mick-. 

 Reclamation ^^,,^,-.-,1 py ,,f tin- 



Service y M c x ;,- x , 



York, ha t the Washington 



,,ftK-e and (b 1 with the Director 



th, .-ability of introducing ^". M. 



C. \. work in the princi' pS ( >\ 



