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Appalachian National Park Association Newspaper Clippings, 1899-1902

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  • 'sented to Congress by the Appalachian i National Park association December 19. Is d a boundary which for many reasons it would be desirable to include. It was pointed out,^however, that there were other locations equally i desirable and available. "Senator Pritehard, of North Caro- | Una, secured tho passage of a bill by 'Congress In January, 1900, appropriat- | ing $5,000 for a preliminary lnvestiga- '; tion of the southern Appalachian for- l ests. The investigation was left in the j hands of the Secretary of Agriculture ■This department, with the assistance of i the Geological Survey, mapped the j whole region from Virginia to South ! Carolina and Georgia during the sum- } mer of 1900. On January 16, 1901, the President of the United States, in a special message ! to Congress, sent the report of the sec- [retary of agriculture to that body and recommended it to- | favorable consideration. The Secret- j ary's report was also accompanied by a i map (see Calendar No. 2227, Senate, 56th ■ Congress, Report 2221), which again i called particular attention to this area already referred to along the North i Carolina-Tennessee state line. Follow- 1 ing this, Senator Pritehard introduced a bill into the Senate praying for an appropriation of $5,000,000. This bill was referred to the Committee on Agricul- and Forest Reservations and was favorably reported back by this committee to the Senate. More Important matters crowded the question out, auu a \i.te was not taken at the last session of Congress. The movement, however, has warm friends in both Houses, and the Indications are that the bill will receive favorable consideration when the opportune time arrives. THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. iN HAY, MAT .), 1902. GOVERNMENT M% YET BE TOO LATE .— — .— Tremendous Inroads on Forests Will be Made for Tan Bark FEARINGPARK BILLWILL PASS Lumbermen Will Get as Much as Possible Before Protection is Given (Special to The Citizen.) Marshall N. C, May 5.—The work of gathering tan bark, the bark of certain of oak, is just beginning in earnest. As it is sold by the ton, and this place is expected to be an extensive market for this commodity, new- scales are being put up for weighing it. it is said the price will be at the opening of the market, about $5 per ton. The fair prospects of the early establishment of the Appalachian Forest Reserve have doubtless had effect of accentuating these onslaughts into the oak forests primeval, since it is IV that this reason may be the last in li the ruthless woodsman may fell the stately oaks and leave their now erchantable trunks to decay on the tbe ex nVe JUrk "''" brln« Tom '™' ndu ,t;;'pp,;iht,i,"s th:it ■« * *° seem th-,, ,l"B tlK "«**«». It would '■"""■«■« vev]ift-;re:',iT""t wiU flnd Its iU-u i.ienJ Ule t0 be Protected bj eases will be too "ate thousam" "f ^.einilicntions new'a,, that the fruit hasPbeen' seei^n "iT' abu"di«t that v.-,,- , ,. m the county for many beteU it Thf,S°me u«^ual misfortune p 'n' is Particularly true as to corner ti theThe8/ In eVery ,look ™& are laden wttwUnty the peath tree£> and ^owiSW yTh"S bU,1 healthy just now In f,,n ki Tht apple tP Perfume as^e", "^ f0uTaKr!d0lent WlU> a manv stil'l 1, andy- distUter«. °* whom t;iey s.gh for the days that are no more onTnAT'1' t BOl,11°'W trim the li , of ? ? „the3e «uaint. unique, disfranchised alchemists may now and aga be heard, running (with apologies t / the shade of Tennyson) something like this Tears, idle tears, know not what they mean- Tears from the depths of some divine despair, Gather in the heart and rise to the eyes In looking on these happy orchard blooms, And thinking of the laws that are no more." He knows full well that not tin- autumn (maybe some other autumn) be will have the chance legally to coax i rom the blushing peach or the many- ' "lined apple, their rich, rare Juices and 'eunjuring' them Into that which the rude forefathers of thi quaffed. I'day the mutilated body oi gro was found on the railro plaee. The Of! li notified erlor Courl White, owing to the absence of i McDivitt appointed Dr. W. J. v. ".. Inquest, t in Investigai lor th. 'iiiui to i Henry who bail formerly lived hi recently residing at Hot Springs 0 years of ai \ Idence bsfore the coroner's Jury Indicated thai the ileeeaseil hail been drinking, and the verdict was to th ' hi. 111.I I, Ii.'l\ ill!- been I'll!! liver by ati At the Couper Memorial church yes- . Re\. W, P. Benedict, lately •■' Pennsylvania, filled the pulpit tor Rev. I. H. Polhemus, who is absent foi weeks, and I t« horn Mr, t lent -lie! came here. Two excellent 'ii es, one at 11 o'clock, the other in tin- by good BiB Ions, ai ii' Ice the announi emenl was made thai 11 .; of the Walnut Spring school would take place on Friday afternoon, and the public was invited to attend. The thermometer touched 78 degrees yesterday at 2 o'clock, about the hlgh- i st yet for this season. ,v.■rOurReflulargowcspontUnt « f ^^,9<^<^^9"Ky9^9^>9^>-9'^9 There is no more ardent advocate of the establishment of the Appalachian Forest Reserve than Senator Pritch^iflfJiorth Caro- Hna^StSnTon the Jsubjec yesterday the senator told me that in the year of 1891 the dam- •e which had resulted along the streams rising in , the district which it is proposed to set aside as a forest-reservation had amounted to $10,000,000 and that the damage along the course of the Catawba river alone had amount ed during July and August of last year to $1,500,000. This serious destruction of property, continued the Senator, is the result of the denuding of the mo their natural protcc which has been cut, stances, by persons living outside of the state, and who have ruthlessly demolished the forests and then moved to parts where there is more profit to be found. With the steep sides of the mountains laid bare by the woodman's ax and by fire, the raintall is concentrated in the streams immediately and they are charged far beyond their capacity, the re suit I struction ol Kooerty, bqth agricultural and luiactm ;e streams ish the water power for many mill- estimated that he banks of dfehe<%Keams in thi* locality 60,000 devi uower and poten tial 1 i.itint; to The terrifl JhcJfcsjflpGwer. [comprise the the ob>oC. < fonj ' Vs u I led by mimsrwus perhaps* I ,OOi a be purchase itc pi siblM»for lamb iv hi vv bef set as ') appro kfor the pur- $2,000. immediat h,. shall be entii the re- anaged to pre- tim- 1 overn- f l it for 1 the 20,- a En5j*.Jfloods t fuel, by the t stead of steam s rjvldlng for the 1. this reserve has t reported favorably ■ to the t House and a similar measure has c been introduced in the senate and 1 is now in the committee on forest reservations, etc. The entire week in the senate has been occupied by the senators 1 RawTTniretll'WIliW j 111 HUH U11 wafrif Teller with speeches in oppositioi to the Philippines Civil bill, Tl
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