Congressional bill for the purchase of a national forest reserve

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Details
- Format
  - Letters (correspondence)
- Type
  - Text
- Date
  - Date original: 1901-01-03;
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Identifier
  - NCWRA_019_09_01_06_01
Transcript

<? -♦* / jRamnry 3, 1901, / Mr. ir era dent: • Tiie Bill mricin'T appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for tiie fiscal year ending June 30th, .1901, provides that a "buti not to exceed five thousand dollars saoy, in trie discretion of %h.*M Secretary of Agriculture, be used to investigate the forest conditions in the southern Appalachian mountain rcpion of western Nertii Carolina and adjacent State*.■ ' In ~ecordari.ee-. with this proTir-ion, I hare made a thorough investigation of the forest' in a portion of the southern Appalachian mountains, as directed above, including sn octSi-ate of tRe amount and. condition of the standing timber, an inquiry ao to the suitability of this region for a 'national park, as proposed by the Appalachian National Parts Am-oeiation, and an examination of the validity of the reasons advanced by its advocates for the creation of snch a parb. In this task I have received gonejrous and effective cooperation ar&l aBsiet:.iice, through tiie U. S. Geological Survey, from the Department of the Interior, which recognized in this, way the. deep and widely diffused public interest in the plan. The forest Investigation was node to include a study of

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Description

These memoranda were written in support of Congressional legislation. In 1900, a bill passed authorizing funds to investigate the possibility of a national park in the eastern U.S. and, in December 1901, Congress introduced a bill to purchase land. While the Appalachian National Park Association initially argued for a national park, it used the terms “national park” and “forest reserve” somewhat interchangeably. As the bill made its way through Congress, funds were earmarked for a “forest reserve” rather than a “national park.” Unfortunately, when a separate bill was re-introduced in 1902, Congress was not able to reconcile the two bills and they failed.
Details
- Creator
- Contributor
  - Appalachian National Park Associati
  - Pearson, Richmond, 1852-1923
  - Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909
  - Holmes, J. A. (Joseph Austin), 1859-1915
  - Pritchard, Jeter Connelly, 1857-1921
  - Wittkowsky, Samuel, 1835-1911
  - Richards, M. V.
  - Cone, Moses H., 1857-1908
- Format
  - Letters (correspondence)
- Type
  - Text
- Date
  - Date original: 1901
  - Date digitized: 2015-07-22
- Extent
  - Dimension: 10.5” x 8”
  - Dimension: 11" x 8.5"
  - Dimension: 5.25” x 5.5”
  - Dimension: 8" x 6"
  - Dimension: 5.5" x 6.5"
  - Pages: 31 pages
- Subject - Topic
- Location
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Appalachian National Park Association Records
- Identifier
  - NCWRA_019_09_01-14
- Repository
  - North Carolina Western Regional Archives

Congressional bill for the purchase of a national forest reserve

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