anaheim-gazette 1909-06-03

UNCLE SAM'S FOREST SERVICE MANAGEMENT OF GOVERNMENT TIMBER LANDS Men of Special Experience for Each of Many Lines of Work—Service Improved by Division into Districts Following the movement of the larger part of the executive force of the Forest Service from Washington into the field, and the division of the western country into six forest districts, each in charge of a district forester, the practical management of Uncle Sam's forests on a business basis is being pushed forward even more effectively than heretofore. Only the general administrative heads of the service and the men engaged in government forestry work in the eastern part of the country retain their headquarters in Washington. For the better administration of the 194,500,000 acres of national forest land, this vast territory is divided into 149 national forests, each in charge of a forest supervisor. In all cases, the supervisor is selected for his wide practical knowledge of the west, and of lumbering and grazing particularly. He may or may not be a trained forester. If not a trained forester himself, he has such a man to assist him. It is the business of the forest supervisor and his technical aids to bring their forest gradually to a condition of maximum productiveness. To do this requires a great deal of detailed study and skillful planning. Each step, from the care and protection of the young claims, make surveys and maps, and supervise the building of telephone lines, trails, roads, bridges, ranger stations and other permanent improvements. The Office of Grazing looks after the range, cooperates in the enforcement of quarantine regulations, and issues permits by which the grazing of stock within each national forest is so regulated as to improve rather than destroy its grazing capacity. Studies the best means of reseeding the range and conducts investigations and devises means of checking the growth of poisonous plants which are injurious to live stock. The Office of Silviculture makes a special study of the management of timbered lands in order to make the yield the largest permanent return. It makes timber sales on the national forests, plants trees on bare national forest land, makes estimates and forest working plans, investigates forest conditions and all problems connected with the life and growth of trees, and gives advice where possible to private parties who are interested in similar lines of work. The work of the Office of Production is the determination of all ways and means possible for utilizing wood and timber, in order to make the business of forestry both economical and profitable. Markets and wood-using industries everywhere are being investigated, statistics of forest products are being collected, and the comparative strength of building timber with reference to their use for various purposes is being determined by accurate scientific tests. The office of products also makes a study of the best ways of preserving timbers, and cooperates with private telephone companies. ing particularly. He may or may not be a trained forester. If not a trained forester himself, he has such a man to assist him. It is the business of the forest supervisor and his technical aids to bring their forest gradually to a condition of maximum productiveness. To do this requires a great deal of detailed study and skillful planning. Each step, from the care and protection of the young growth to the lumbering of the mature forest must be carefully considered and as carefully executed if the forest is to go on producing trees indefinitely. For each of the many lines of work to be carried on in the forest, men with special experience are required. Those who prepare and tend the nurseries must be experienced in raising and caring for young trees. The lumberman, who cruises and estimates timber, helps to plan logging operations, and sees that the sealing is correctly done and that the rules for logging are properly observed, must be an experienced and capable woodsman. The forest ranger patrols his district of the forest to see that fire and trespass are prevented that the range is not overgrazed, that logging regulations are enforced, and that the privileges granted by permit for the use of various forest resources are not abused; he also must be hardheaded, practical, and thoroughly honest, an able-bodied citizen of the west, with plenty of experience in all the problems with which he may have to deal. The trained foresters are usually forest school graduates. Their training is somewhat parallel to that of the civil engineer, but particular attention is paid to the study of botany, to the life and growth of forests, and to all that affects their development and usefulness. In addition to his scientific training, the American trained forester must have abundant practical experience in the woods, on the range and in the mills, for he must have a thorough understanding of all conditions before attempting to work out a plan of good business management of any forest. For the general administration of the national forests, the western half of the United States is divided into of forestry both economical and profitable. Markets and wood-using industries everywhere are being investigated, statistics of forest products are being collected, and the comparative strength of building timber with reference to their use for various purposes is being determined by accurate scientific tests. The office of products also makes a study of the best ways of preserving timbers, and cooperates with private telephone companies, railroads and other timber using interests in determining the best methods applicable in each case. Experimental treating plants for this purpose are being established throughout the country. In short the forest service is deavoring to bring about the practice of true forestry—"the preservation of forests by wise use," And the key note of the service. the watchword of each member, from the chief down to the forest guard, is conservation—the devotion of every resource to the best possible use and the preservation of all renewable resources for the use of future generations. LET WOMEN VOTE, SAYS. WU Chinese Thinks Fair Sex Should Have Suffrage Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister to the United States, speaking before the Chicago Wellesley Club said: "Women in China are not demonstraitive in their letters to their husbands. They do not send their love by mail, but keep it to themselves. This is but natural enough, as most women can not read or write. "China is reformed now. Schools are being established for girls. Coeducation is unknown as yet, but it may come. On that subject I reserve my opinion. Segregation in China applies to brothers and sisters when young. This barrier surely will be broken down when we are better advanced. "Already married couples have been gun to appear strolling about together. Sometimes a man takes his wife out for a drive. China is imitating the Western nations more every year." Woman suffrage is out of the development and usefulness. In addition to his scientific training, the American trained forester must have abundant practical experience in the woods, on the range and in the mills, for he must have a thorough understanding of all conditions before attempting to work out a plan of good business management of any forest. For the general administration of the national forests, the western half of the United States is divided into six districts with headquarters at Missoula, Montana; Denver, Colorado; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Ogden, Utah; San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon. The object of the forest service is to foster proper use of the forest resources of the country, including private and state, as well as national forests. Upon the latter every resource is for use in the best interests of all citizens of the United States. Every water power site every piece of mineral land, every bit of grazing land or of agricultural land is for use, provided it is not required for public purposes. The remainder of the land which is forest is of course put to the best use by the practice of forestry when it is made to produce as much timber as possible. In order that the administration may be most effective the various offices have been established at Washington and at the district headquarters, each in charge of trained and experienced men directing specialized lines of work. The Office of Operation attends in each district to the protection and administration of the national forests and employs engineers, expert miners, and foresters to investigate the YAKIMA FLY TRAP Experiments are to be made at North Yakima, Wash., by the State Board of Health with a fly trap guaranteed to catch a bushel of flies every twenty-four hours. The first trap will be installed in a North Yakima orchard and if successful the health board will endeavor to secure adoption of the device by orchardists throughout the state. During the harvest season when the ground is covered with decaying fruit, flies become a great pest and a serious menace to health. It is then that the traps are expected to prove useful. Fireless cookers at Dickel's. DISINFECTION OF SEWAGE MODERN TREATMENT OF AN OLD PROBLEM Essential Agents of Purification are Provided by Nature—Modern Filters Do Not Destroy Polluting Substances — Interesting Experiments The problem of purifying sewage so that it no longer transforms the rivers into which it is discharged into open sewers has been so far solved that these streams need no longer be disgusting to the senses and dangerous to the health of people living along them. The task of destroying the disease-breeding bacteria in the sewage and once more making the rivers available for drinking water has not yet been worked out on a practical basis, but investigations recently made by the United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Sanitary Research Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and local authorities at Boston, at Baltimore, and at Red Bank, N. J., show that this end, too, may be attained at a reasonable cost. The essential agents of sewage purification are provided and employed by nature, and sewage purification as practiced today is but the intensive application of these natural processes. The improvements that have been made have not involved the discovery or application of new principles but have merely increased the working efficiency of the natural agencies. From the old-time sewage ir- The essential agents of sewage purification are provided and employed by nature, and sewage purification as practiced today is but the intensive application of these natural processes. The improvements that have been made have not involved the discovery or application of new principles but have merely increased the working efficiency of the natural agencies. From the old-time sewage irrigation field, with its maximum capacity of possibly 10,000 gallons an acre in twenty-four hours to the present-day trickling filter capable of dealing with two or three million gallons an acre a day improvement has been steady. The old-time methods, however, really destroyed the polluting substances, while the modern sewage filter does not. The liquid flowing from these filters looks to the untrained eye like the original sewage. There is almost as much organic matter in it as in the raw sewage, and sometimes more. Its nature, however, has been changed; the organic matter, though not burned up has been charred or partly oxidized, and this charring has been sufficient to rob it of its foulness. In other words, its chemical composition has been so altered that it can no longer undergo rapid putrefaction and cause a nuisance. The water, however still needs filtration to make it fit to drink. Moreover, it may and in many cases does contaminate oyster beds, thus spreading disease and tending to ruin a great industry. It has not yet been decided upon whom the responsibility rests for keeping the rivers clean, but the consensus of competent opinion requires that if sewage is discharged within the region of important shellfish beds or into a stream which is used as a source of domestic water supply without filtration, such sewage shall at least be free from disease-bearing germs. The geological survey experiments which are set forth by Earle B. Phelps in Water-Supply paper 229, just issued, show that the application of a small amount of available chlorine in the form of bleaching powder to Segregation in Chi rchers and sisters barrier surely will when we are better couples have berolling about together man takes his wife China is imitating more every year age is out of the present. Womnot even talked of peoples I can not see the ballot should to the women in If she is as well why should this her? Indinal principles of real rights to all. It good of the coungranted to them." FLY TRAP to be made at bash., by the State with a fly trap with a bushel of flies hours. will be installed in archard and if sucboard will endeation of the device throughout the state. Invest season when erred with decaying a great pest and to health. It is worms are expected to at Dickel's. The geological survey experiments which are set forth by Earle B. Phelps in Water-Supply paper 229, just issued, show that the application of a small amount of available chlorine in the form of bleaching powder to the customary "purified" sewage effects satisfactory disinfection. The removal of bacteria by this means averages over 95 per cent making the removal for the whole purification process 98 to 99 per cent of the number in the crude sewage. The cost of disinfection ranges from $1 to $1.50 per million gallons of sewage, depending chiefly on the size of the plant. Five parts per million of chlorine probably represents the maximum amount required for the treatment of trickling-filter effluents of poorer quality. The results obtained with the amounts of disinfectant specified do not, of course, amount to complete sterilization, but they may reasonably be called "practical disinfection." Considerable additional cost is required to improve them but slightly. Mr. Phelps's paper may be obtained, free of cost, from the Director, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. The Security Oil Syndicate filed articles of incorporation here. The stock is capitalized for $240,000 and the amount actually subscribed is $500. The directors are J. E. McDonald, H. P. Caotes, Karl A. Snyder, J. B. Merrill, I. L. Gates, all residents of Los Angeles. W. WEISEL and Counselor at Law Human Language nix Bldg., Anaheim, Cal. B. 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