IN THE DEPARTMENTS 





bv storage reservoirs, which would catch 

 the surplus waters of the spring and 

 retain them until the- summer months, 

 when the mills now have to fall hark- 

 on fuel or close down. 



The United Stairs <;*.< 'logical Sur- 

 vey has kept records of stream flow in 

 the Appalachians for a number of 

 years and recently thev made a care- 

 ful study of the possibilities of storage 

 reservoirs in that region. The Forest 

 Service has published their report un- 

 der the title "The Relation of the 

 Southern Appalachian .Mountains to the 

 Development of Water Power," as 

 Forest Service Circular 144. and will 

 send it free to any one upon application. 

 The experts of the Geological Survey 

 who made the investigation, after pick- 

 ing out reservoir sites and estimating 

 their capacity and the area from which 

 they would receive the run-off, consider 

 the figures given above extremely con- 

 servative. Even with onlv one million 

 four hundred thousand horsepower, the 

 annual return at $20 per horsepower 

 per year would amount to $28,000,000. 

 That is equal to a gross income of 

 three per cent, on a capital of about 

 $933,000,000. These figures seem to 

 justify a considerable outlay of money 

 to achieve the benefits promised. 



Forest Service Supply Depot at Ogden 



ARRANGEMENTS have been com- 

 pleted by the Forest Service for 

 a central supply depot to be established 

 at Ogden, I'tah. Mr. A. M. Smith, 

 who has been property clerk of the For- 

 est Service at Washington f, ,r the past 

 year, began the organi/ation of the of- 

 fice about the middle of June, and after 

 July I all National Eorc-t -npplies will 

 "be distributed direct from ( )gdcn. 

 Tin- establishment of this supply de 



pot at Ogden. a central point in the 

 \Vest, is in accordance with the polio 

 of the Forest Service to do as much 

 its work in the field as po--ible. It is 

 estimated that l>th time and mone\ 

 will be saved by having the distribu- 

 ting point at Ogden instead of Wa-h- 

 ington. It is expected that Western pro- 

 ducers will meet the demands of the 

 depot and cooperate with the Service 

 in making the movement successful and 

 in expediting business. In keeping with 

 the same policy of the Service, a branch 

 of the office of Engineering, which ha- 

 charge of the extensive permanent 

 works now under way on the National 

 Forests, has been established at Ogden. 



Maps of the Grant's Pass Quadrangle 



ANEW sheet of the topographic at- 

 las of the United States, known as 

 the Grant's Pass (Oregon) sheet, has 

 been published by the United States 

 Geological Survey. The region cov- 

 ered by the map extends northward 

 from the Oregon-California line to 

 parallel forty-two degrees, thirty min- 

 utes, which is about five miles north of 

 Grant's Pass, and from the eastern bor- 

 der of range three W. to the eastern 

 third of range seven ^'..correspond- 

 ing to meridian u^ degrees to u^ de- 

 grees thirty minutes W. It shows 

 large portions of Ro-ne River Valley 

 and that of its tributary, the . \pplegate. 

 as well as the Siskiymi Eorest Reserve. 

 The map is of interest in connection 

 with both forestry and irrigation, a- 

 it clearly shows the relation between the 

 two in this part of ( >rcgon. The broad 

 alluvial valleys lying immediately north 

 ot the reserve contain many reservoir 



5, which may be utilized in the 

 velopment of irrigation ; M id water 



power. 



