3<5o FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION' June 



scheme for providing a summer home communities adjacent has led the peo- 



and resort for members of the Nation- pie to believe that this sandhill land, 



al Educational Association. His com- otherwise worthless except for a lim- 



pany proposes to dedicate to the As- ited amount of grazing, can be made 



sociation a tract of land in Routt coun- to produce timber. Fair .success has 



ty, upon which members may build, been obtained with black locust on 



and which will be capable of agricul- lands similar in character, and it is 



tural development, with the idea of thought that further experiments will 



providing a resort where vacations may demonstrate that the entire sandhill 



be spent with as little expense as pos- region south of the Arkansas River 



sible. The land lies along the eastern can be made to produce timber, 



side of the company's irrigation ditch, To this end, the Forest Service has 



running up into the mountains, and made arrangements to plant 65,000 



offers what is said to be an ideal loca- seedlings of valuable hardwood spe- 



tion for summer residences, cottages cies on this forest this spring. A new 



or resort hotels. The Moffat Road, planting station at Garden City, to 



now approaching completion, taps the ^'I'Pb' trees for future planting on 



section from Denver, and Routt coun- lllis forest, was established March 



ty affords some of the finest scenery, : > on a tract of five acres of lan(1 "'hich 



as well as magnificent farming, gar- was leased fn ' m the County Commis- 



dening and fruit-growing lands", to be sioner Finney county, for yearly 



found in the Centennial State. The remal of $' P^' acre. The an- 



proposition will be made to the Asso- nual capacity of this nursery will be 



ciation at its annual meeting in Cleve- 300,000 trees The value of timber 



land, Ohio, this summer. for fence P osts - fuel > and other do- 

 mestic uses, which it is believed this 



^ '* '"" forest is capable of producing, is al- 



New National Forest in Kansas most incalculable in that practically 



treeless country. It is unquestionable 



I'resident Roosevelt has just signed that, if the Forest Service is suceess- 



a proclamation creating additions to ful in these experiments, man}- pri- 



the present Garden City National vate individual- will benefit from the 



Forest amounting to 205,107 acres, results obtained by the Government, 



This proclamation also provides that and plant trees for domestic purposes 



the original Forest known as the Gar- in connection with other work on their 



den City with the additions shall be ranches. 



called the Kansas National Forest. Tree planting experiences in Kan- 



The additions will bring the area of sas have been many and varied. Ig- 



the Kansas National Forest up to norance of proper methods of plant- 



302,387 acres. ing and caring for the trees and the 



The forest is located in Finney and frequent choice of stock entirely un- 

 Kearney counties, in the sandhill re- suited to the region brought many 

 gion of Kansas, on the Arkansas Riv- failures during the year following the 

 er. Its creation received the support enactment of the old timber claim 

 of the entire Kansas delegation in law. There have been many success- 

 Congress, and, through petitions, the es, however, in tree planting, where 

 support of industrial associations and landowners have exercised judge- 

 citizens generally of the counties in ment and care in the work, and the 

 which this land is situated. fine groves of trees in the western 



The Kansas National Forest was part of the state give promise of the 



created mainly for experimental plant- reclamation of much of the great 



ing, since the rapidly increasing de- stretch of land lying south of the Ar- 



mand for timber in the agricultural kansas River, known as the sandhills. 



