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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



SECRETARY LANE'S LETTER 



(Continued from page 



but in pursuing this practice you are drawing from the 

 available supply for acres that do not require it and 

 depriving acres which are much in need of it of their share 

 of the available water supply. Reasonable restraint should 

 be exercised by all and that economy practiced which will 

 result in the most beneficial possible use of the water. 



Building Charges. This subject, of course, most inti- 

 mately affects you and your prospects. If you are to 

 win your home and your independence you must pay 

 the cost, the whole cost, of reclaiming the land you hold, 

 not only because the law requires it, but because it is 

 right that you should do so. There may be differences 

 of opinion as to what may be properly charged to that 

 cost. I own to some doubts as to whether you may not 

 have been charged with some items of cost that were 

 more properly chargeable to some other account. I 

 do not know this to be so, but I propose to find out and 

 to let you know, to relieve you, if possible, of any charge 

 that may be unjust and to issue public notices definitely 

 and finally fixing the cost as soon as this may legally be 

 done. 



It is possible that Congress may grant power to the 



Secretary of the Interior to extend the time for the repay- 

 ment to the reclamation fund so that the whole sum may 

 fall due at the end of 20 years instead of 10. I favor such 

 an extension and have so advised Congress in my annual 

 report. 



It is my intention to determine this cost as accurately, 

 as possible by means of a board of review or a committee 

 on each project to consist probably of an engineer of the 

 Reclamation Service, an expert accountant representing 

 the Secretary of the Interior and an engineer or account- 

 ant or other representative of the water users to be se- 

 lected by the Water Users' Association. All items of cost 

 assessed against each project shall be thoroughly reviewed 

 and any items that may be objected to by the water users 

 shall be thoroughly examined into and the justice or in- 

 justice of the charge determined at an open hearing. But 

 this course must necessarily be dependent upon the agree- 

 ment of the water users that the costs thus determined 

 upon shall be final and binding upon them and shall form 

 the basis of a new contract with the United States condi- 

 tioned upon payments indicated as above or spread over 

 a period of 20 years if so authorized by Congress. 



At the same time and by the same board or committee 

 there should be considered the question of additional con- 

 struction costs made necessary by extension, betterments, 



FOREST NOTES. 



There are 36,500,000 young trees in 

 the government's forest nurseries. 



Two tons of cascara bark have just 

 been sold from the Siuslaw national 

 forest, Oregon, at one cent a pound. 



The northernmost national forest is 

 the Chugach in Alaska; the southern- 

 most is the Luquillo in Porto Rico. 



For shingles alone, 750 million feet 

 of timber is cut in that part of the 

 state of Washington which lies west 

 of the Cascades. 



California led last year in timber 

 sold from national forests, though 

 Montana had the largest number of 

 sale transactions. 



The American forestry association 

 has just elected Henry S. Drinker, 

 president of Lehigh University, and- 

 P. S. Ridsdale, as its president and 

 secretary, respectively. 



The biological survey and the for- 

 est service have been cooperating in 

 the extermination of ground squirrels 

 on national forests in California. The 

 annual loss of range feed and grain 

 crops from ground squirrels is enor- 

 mous. 



Twenty states have published re- 

 ports of their wood-using industries. 



A good grade of excelsior is being 

 made from fire-killed Alpine fir and 

 Engelmann spruce in Colorado. 



It is predicted that western yellow 

 pine will furnish an excellent source 

 of turpentine as the southern pine be- 

 comes exhausted. 



While there are five hemlocks in the 

 United States, only two are of any 

 commercial importance, common hem- 

 lock and western hemlock. Of these 

 two western hemlock makes the bet- 

 .ter lumber. 



(Continued on page 122) 



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