30 DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



The request made for supervision of nursery and planting opera- 

 tions show that the planting plans are being carried into execution. 

 Such work was done this spring for 11 cooperators, including the 

 Eeclamation Service, two coal and coke companies, two railroads, 

 two cities, and a city water company. 



Cooperative funds to the amount of $2,267.5,0 were received during 

 the year from 17 landowners for use in preparing planting plans or 

 supervising their execution. 



PRESENT STATUS OV COOPERATIVE PLANTING. 



During the past year large landowners, especially railroads and coal 

 companies, have shown a marked tendency to undertake forest plant- 

 ing on a commercial basis. Their motives are purely economic and 

 arise from the increasing difficulty of getting ties and construction 

 timbers, even at high prices, and from a desire to utilize and improve 

 their lands. 



At least 11 railroad companies are directly interested in procuring 

 a future wood supply and have actually begun forest work. Exami- 

 nations were made of 18 railroad plantations in Virginia, Kentucky, 

 Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and of a tract in Vir- 

 ginia on which planting was contemjDlated. For the Illinois Central 

 Railroad a planting plan was made for lands in Iowa, and improve- 

 ment cuttings in their catalpa plantations in Louisiana and Illinois 

 were supervised. The Union Pacific Railroad entered into an agree- 

 ment and provided funds for an examination of certain of their hold- 

 ings to learn the advisability of forest planting for tie production. 

 The Pennsylvania Railroad paid the cost of an investigation to lay 

 down a future forest policy, which will insure a permanent tie supply 

 for their lines east of Pittsburg. This work included a study of their 

 present holdings and the preparation of a planting plan for various 

 tracts in Pennsylvania. The Baltimore and Ohio, Santa Fe, and 

 Xew York Central railroads will take up forest planting in the near 

 future, and an application is on file from the Long Island Railroad 

 for an examination of its waste lands. 



Planting plans made for two coal and coke companies in western 

 Pennsylvania last summer were carried into execution under Service 

 supervision this spring. The field work for a planting plan on a 

 36,000-acre watershed in eastern Pennsylvania, owned by a coal 

 company, was started in June. Another large eastern coal company 

 is expected to apply for assistance in planting their waste lands as 

 the result of a preliminary examination in November. The report 

 made after the examination was published in full by the company. 



For the improvement of city watersheds cooperative assistance was 

 rendered to the Johnstown Water Company, in Pennsylvania, and to 

 the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company and East Hartford Fire District 

 in Connecticut. In southern California plans were prepared for 

 planting four tracts where watershed improvement was one of the 

 prime objects. The plans for city forest parks for Helena, Mont., 

 and Los Angeles, Cal., were carried into effect under the direction of 

 the Service. 



Increased assistance was given to other branches of the Federal 

 Government. Planting plans were made during the year for portions 

 of the Fort Bayard, Fort Riley, and Fort Stanton military reserva- 



