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Activities of the Appalachian National Park Association and the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association: 1899-1906

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  • Page 50 of any kind. This list shows that in 1901 the government could have secured 494,200 acres for $1,673,000.00. It was the belief of the members of the Appalachian National Park Association that this action would at some time pass and it was also our belief that the timber of the oountry was rapidly being destroyed and that the time for the government to purchase was when we first appeared before Congress. The faot that the matter was delayed in Congress for ten years or more means that the government, the states interested and individuals are paying today $25,000,000 for lands they oould have purchased in 1900 for one-fifth of that amount. Had the government purchased in 1900 the same acreage which is today incorporated in forest reserves and in the proposed National Park in the Southern Appalachians—in round numbers, 1,000,000 acres--the oost of the lands with timber would not have exceeded $5,000,000.00. Suoh lands if purchased at that time would today, with the timber still on it, be worth something in excess of $50,000,000. Be that as it may, it was a little known project, it was a Southern measure, it was something new in Congress, it was something that congressmen and senators were afraid of, and, as a rule, it was not recognized by the general public as a necessity; and, the final action
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  • This 72-page journal recording “The Activities of the Appalachian National Park Association and the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association: 1899-1906” was compiled by the association’s secretary and founding member Chase P. Ambler (1865-1932). The manuscript was created in 1929, the year Ambler donated the association’s records to the State Archives. The Appalachian National Park Association was formed in 1899 for the purpose of promoting the idea of a national park in the eastern U.S. Although housed in Asheville, North Carolina, the organization was a multi-state effort, attracting representatives from six southern states. The association lobbied Congress for the creation of a park, but with limited success. The association disbanded in 1905.