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Congressional speech for forest reserve

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  • 6 DAMAGES BY FLOODS ON THE CATAWBA. It is a matter beyond dispute and of common observation that in recent years disastrous floods and freshets have visited the above States with alarming frequency. The report of the Secretary shows that the damage to the farmers on the Catawba River alone, caused by the May, 1901, storm, on the Blue Ridge, about the sources of that river, amounted to a million and a half dollars, and that an August storm in the same year added a further loss of a half million more on the low lands of the same river. I find, the following in the March, 1902, number of Forestry and Irrigation: The characteristics of the Catawba Eiver floods have undergone a sudden and alarming change. In previous years all floods along the river rose slowly. The water stagnated like a mill pond over the bottom lands and, gently receding, left a deep, rich deposit on the already fertile bottoms. The floods have changed, therefore, from an agency of good to the farmers to one of absolute destruction—a quick, tumultuous rise of waters and a swiftly rushing current that tears up the soil down to the rocks and hard clay and leaves barren wastes. This extraordinary and deplorable change in the characteristics of the flood has followed the laying waste in recent years of thousands of acres of woodland in the western part of the State. * * * There have been two notable floods in the Catawba Eiver in the past. The first was in 1848 and the second was in 1878. In neither instance was there any damage to farm lands. The water rose slowly and receded gently, leaving the river bottoms richer by a deposit of fertile sediment. There is no Government record of the rainfall during those periods, but Catawba Eiver land owners say that there was as much water in the bottoms during tho freshet of 1870 as there was last May. To show the protection against floods furnished by forests the same publication gives the results of a valuable experiment on 400 acres of land, made in the South Mountains, owned by the State hospital at Morganton, N. C, and from which it gets its water supply by a creek having its source in the above tract. For twenty years no timber has been cut on this tract, there have been no forest fires, and the ground is thickly covered with leaves, mold, and undergrowth. Near by is another similar stream, but the trees have been cut from about its source and there have been frequent fires.. Accurate measurements of the flow of water in May and August, 1901, show that while the first stream had lost only 10 per cent of its volume of water between those months the other had lost 38 per cent in the same time.
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