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on a commercial basis upon a given stream and with a given fall will 

 depend upon a variet}'- of conditions, and in nearly every one of these 

 conditions the forestation or lack of such upon the headwaters of 

 the streams plays an important part. * * * Those regions that 

 approach most closely to ideal conditions are those which are 

 densely forested, and can therefore act as conservatories oi! the water 

 supply with the least artificial aid. 



MORRIS BIEN, 



Engineer, Reclamation Service. 



* * * The present laws relating to rights of way upon the public 

 lands, as well as upon forest reserves, are such as to facilitate the 

 operations of speculators to obtain, secure, and retain command of 

 controlling points for the use of water for railroad, irrigation, power, 

 and other purposes. * * * It is important, however, for the 

 proper development of the entire West that these unused rights of 

 way should be canceled at the earliest possible date, for the reason 

 that as soon as any bona fide enterprise is started, these rights, which 

 are practically dead, are at once revived and the owners make enor- 

 mous claims for the rights which they hold and which can not be set 

 aside without such delay as to seriously jeopardize the proposed 

 development. 



B. LAWTON WIGGINS, 

 Vice-Chancellor University of the South. 



* * * There is no profession I know of that requires wider 

 knowledge than does forestry. Since he deals scientifically with the 

 soil and the products of it, the forester must be much of a geologist, 

 botanist, zoologist, and chemist. The harvesting and manufacture 

 of his crop calls for no mean engineering skill and knowledge. The 

 management of his property is likely to call for legal knowledge. 

 And so on through many other essentials in his education, which only 

 a real university can give him. * * * "We are about to see the 

 proper university recognition given to the callings upon which so 

 much of our national welfare depends — agriculture^ the production 

 and harvesting of field crops; silviculUtre^ the production and har- 

 vesting of forest crops. 



FILIBERT ROTH, 



Professor of Forestry, University of Michigan. 



* * * In Michigan we have been nearly a century hewing out 

 of the forests the homes of more than 2,000,000 people. Our lum- 

 bermen have provided the lumber to build homes in the prairie States 

 from the Dominion to Texas. Had we continued with the old- fash- 



