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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



slopes are heavily timbered with Doug- 

 las fir, western yellow pine, and Engel- 

 mann spruce. 



These timbered mountains are bless- 

 ings to the people of the territory in 

 more ways than one. Streams in which 

 the flow is regulated by the forests run 

 down into the desert where every drop 

 of water is used for irrigation. The 

 forests also supply the people of the re- 

 gion with material for building their 

 houses, for fencing, and with timber. 



The timbered portion of Mt. ( iraham 

 is in a National Forest. This means 

 that the timber can be used, but cannot 

 be abused. For example, the Govern- 

 ment ha- -ol 1 to the Mt. Graham Lum- 

 ber Company, the timber on an area 

 which is estimated to vield <)5<>.<Kx> 

 board feet, and the coinpam i- now 

 cutting and sawing it and supplying the 

 agricultural community in the vallev of 

 the Gila River with lumber, and the 

 mine- of the Globe mining district with 

 timbers. 



The company'- ir.ill i- lii.ub up on the 

 mountain side in a little opening in tin- 

 dense timber. Here, one and a half 

 mile- above -ea level, the logs arc -awed 

 into lumber and a flume -even and one 

 half mile- long carrie- the -awed lum- 

 ber down through the rough cam on of 

 A-h Creek to the ba-e of the mountain 

 where it can be hauled direct to the 

 ranches where it is to be n-ed. or 

 loaded on cars and shipped to the 

 mines. A flume in Ari/ona si-em- out 

 of place, but there is plenty of water on 

 Mt. (Iraham with which to operate it. 

 anl there always will be. for the Fore-t 

 officers allow only carefully selected 

 trees to be cut. and there will always 

 be a good fnre-t cover on the mountain 

 which will protect the stream flow and 

 "iipply timber for the future. 



Soldiers Extinguish Fire in Arizona 

 National Forest 



A STORY of prompt action in sup- 

 ** pres-ing a dangerous fire in the 

 Garces National Forest. Ariz., is told 

 in the three following dispatches which 



passed between Supervisor Roscoe G. 

 \Yillson, of the Garces National For- 

 est, Ariz., and Clyde Leavitt. chief 

 of the office of organization. United 

 States Forest Service, at \Yashington. 

 Cooperation between the different 

 branches of the Government in admin- 

 istering and protecting the public fore,-' 

 domain is one of the means by which 

 the tremendous annual fire losses have 

 been made a thing of the past. 



"Xogales. Ariz., July 5, 1908. 

 "Forester. Washington, h. C. 



"Fire in Tanner Canyon. Huachuca. 

 Fore-t. A-sistance troops requested 

 post commandant Fort Huachuca. 



"WlLLSON." 



"Washington, July d, 

 "\\ ill-on Nogales. Ariz. 



"War l)epartmciit state- Command- 

 ant Frt Huachuca instructed furnish 

 all possible a-si-tance extinguish Tan- 

 ner ( "am on tire. 



"LEAVITT." 



"\ogale-. Ariz., July 7, 

 "Forester. Washington, 1). C. 



"Commandant Fort Huachuca wires 

 me fire extinguished by soldiers. 



"Wiu -ON." 



Insure Timber Supply for Montana's Mines 



IT IS an old storv in Montana that 

 the first information in regard to the 

 liutte copper mine- was a nn-.-sage to 

 Marcus Daly, which read, "Cattle on the 

 hills are looking well." The mine.- have 

 more than justified this message, an 1 

 to-day liutte i- known as the greatest 

 copper-producing town in the United 

 States, if not in the whole world. The 

 streets of IJutte to-day are alive wi'h 

 teams hauling ore from the mines to 

 the railroad, and timber from the rail- 

 road to the mines, for a mine produces a 

 vacancy made by removal which mu-t 

 be partially filled with timber or the 

 mine will cave in. and cannot be 

 worked. 



liutte uses 200.000 mining -tull- an- 

 nuallv. Alxmt three-fourths of this 



