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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



FORESTRY NOTES 



Edited by G. B. Lull. 



Probably no other gathering of industrial 

 Fifteenth National .^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ assiduously and broad- 

 IRRIGATION Congress, advertised as the Fifteenth National 

 Irrigation Congress, held in Sacramento in September. Forestry 

 was made a special feature, especially in the Interstate Exposi- 

 tion, which was a part of the proceedings. Among the prizes and 

 trophies offered for special exhibits the Diamond Match Com- 

 pany and the Pacific Hardware Company each presented one for 

 the best collective State exhibit of forest products, but most 

 significant was the offering of a trophy by the California Wine 

 Association for a suitable substitute for oak staves, accentuating 

 the growing scarcity of the supply which is coupled by a constant 

 and rapidly increasing demand. 



Of special interest to California was the following resolution 

 adopted by the Congress: — 



"Resolved, That the Fifteenth National Irrigation Congress urges upon 

 the people o£ California the need of enacting a law giving the State Board 

 of Forestry power to examine all private forest holdings on the watersheds 

 of irrigable streams and to designate and enforce such rules for cutting as 

 in its judgment will secure the continuity of said forests and prevent injury 

 to said streams." 



Mr. L. D. Van Rensselaer, of Ithaca, N. Y., advertises insur- 

 ance against loss from fire of uncut timber and for cut wood 

 lying in the forest. 



The State of Washington has entered the number of States 

 providing educational facilities for forestry in connection with 

 the College of Agriculture. Professor W. S. Thornber is in 

 charge. 



That the Santa Fe Railway Company, which 

 Eucalyptus p^.j-chased a tract of 8,300 acres in San Diego 

 ^ ■'^ ■ County last year for eucalyptus production, has 

 faith in the value and adaptability of this remarkable genus 

 for railroad use is evinced by the sending of its expert, F. T. 

 Hosp, to Australia to study the eucalyptus in their native 

 habitat, and by the further fact that prominent officials in the 

 company have recently purchased a ranch near Carlsbad for 

 eucalyptus production. This action, which is in line with the 

 policy of many large wood-using concerns, looks toward a supply 

 of material when our rapidly disappearing forests have been 

 exhausted. In less favorable sections these corporations are 

 gradually acquiring and protecting the uncut timber for future 



