THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



came a law will have no value and the Forester will re- 

 turn them at once. 



"All applications received in the same mail for 

 the examination for the same tract of land will be 

 treated as simultaneous, and as simultaneous applicants 

 must be notified; a similar notice will be given to the 

 latter of two applicants for the examination of the 

 same tract. 



"No examination of more than one quarter section 

 will be ordered upon the application of the same person, 

 but if an application is withdrawn or rejected, a second 

 application will be received for the land. 



"All applicants must give the name of the forest 

 reserve and describe the land, examination of which is 

 requested, by legal subdivisions, section, township, range, 

 if surveyed, and if not surveyed, by reference to natural 

 objects, streams or improvements with sufficient accu- 

 racy to identify the land." 



The growing scarcity of suitable timber 

 Preserve for manufacturing purposes has been the 

 the Forests, subject of a number of addresses deliv- 

 ered before various conventions of manu- 

 facturers. It begins to look now as if the people who 

 have permitted the cutting and slashing of the forests 

 were beginning to see the need of some systematic effort 

 to reproduce and preserve what nature gave this coun- 

 try with unexampled bounty. 



The Bureau of Forestry at Washington has been cre- 

 ated for this purpose and has been doing excellent 

 service in arousing the nation to the need of intelligent 

 study of an important problem. The government has 

 taken hold of the subject with vigor, and in the last 

 ten years many substantial gains have been made. Per- 

 haps 70,000,000 acres altogether have been set aside as 

 forest reservations, and some of the States have followed 

 the lead of the general government in seeking to protect 

 the forest areas, New York and Pennsylvania leading. 

 During the last eight years several schools for profes- 

 sional study of forestry have been established in the 

 United States, so that practical training may be secured 

 at home, where the investigator formerly had to go 

 abroad for his instruction. 



The early settlers who inherited respect for the for- 

 ests due to the feeling in the old world whence they 

 came, learned to look with dread upon the leafy back- 

 ground of their frontier farms, from beyond which 

 came the savage and wild animals, and at last their 

 long cherished respect for the woods gave place to a 

 determination to clear up the rendezvous of the foes of 

 advancing civilization. No one who has studied the 

 steady advance of population westward fails to under- 

 stand that the clearing of the forests has meant the 

 development of our agricultural resources, so that in 

 one sense it may be said that destruction was the fore- 



runner of prosperity. At the same time it is plain that 

 there has been much needless waste and senseless cutting 

 of timber, whose value now begins to be understood, 

 because the shortage of suitable material for manufac- 

 turing purposes is reported with a frequency that alarms 

 those most vitally affected. However, it is not too late 

 to start again, and toward this end there should be 

 intelligent and harmonious co-operation of manufac- 

 turers and lumbermen with the governmental authori- 

 ties having charge of this portion of the national re- 

 sources. 



"Government irrigation means much to 

 Washington," writes Congressman W. L. 

 . a _- n * " Jones to constituents in Spokane, "and 

 desert lands will be made to blossom and 

 produce as a garden. Thousands of pros- 

 perous homes will be established where heretofore has 

 only been the habitation of the jack rabbit and the 

 coyote. Towns will spring up as if by magic, railroads 

 and electric lines will be established and manufactories 

 will turn the wheels of industries, and our State will 

 become the Mecca of hundreds of thousands of those 

 of the East who long for our pure mountain air and 

 the golden opportunities which we hold out to them." 

 Congressman Jones says a great deal in a very few 

 words. 



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ELSEWHERE in this issue we publish an article, 

 entitled "Redeeming the West," by C. J. Blanchard, 

 assistant United States Reclamation Service, which 

 appeared in the September number of Sunset, San Fran- 

 cisco. This article explains what the great Klamath 

 project means in government reclamation, and will, of 

 course, be both interesting and instructive to the readers 

 of THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



"Estimated Crop Yields" (in Nebraska) is the title 

 of an instructive Bulletin issued by the passenger 

 department of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, 

 Omaha, Neb. Another interesting bulletin, issued by 

 the same company, is entitled "Crop Yields" in Kansas. 



The University of California has issued a pamph- 

 let entitled "Commercial Fertilizers," by George Rob- 

 erts, who treats the subject very exhaustively. 



The passenger department of the Union Pacific 

 Railroad Company, Omaha, Neb., has gotten out an 

 unusually attractive folder, entitled "Wyoming and 

 Its Attractions." Any one interested at all in this 

 wonderland of the West should write for a copy. 



