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Convention resolutions

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  • -3 0 t 0 mmyjvm$ That this Convention heartily approves the action of Congress in establishing the great national forest rassrvis in th* Western States and territories, and the mors recent action of Congress, in providing for the construction of a great system of irrigation works in'these States; and in as much as the forests and the soils -<hich these forests protect in the Southern Appalachian mountain region serve as a natural reservoir for the storage, -of the water which falls in excessive rains in this region, this Convention asks the co-operation of the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the western States in securing the pajpfege of tha Appalachian forest reserve Bill now before Congress as an extan- 7l<£uXuz sion to these southeastern states of the great policy of water storage and;-irrigation by the Government ahich has already wisely been inaugerated in the West.
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