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Correspondence regarding 1901 meeting

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  • —2-- News paper clippings are now on file to the number of $60. At the last annual meeting we reported that North Carolina, SeGjegia and Alabama had passed a bill ceding to the national Oovem -msnt the right to acquire title and exempting the Mm* from taxation and that South Carolina tm& T«HR€f«H StW still to be heard fro®. % now have to report that on Karch 28th Tennessee passed n si&ilar bill and South Carolina on February 21st also passed this bill.and resolution. On July 5rd - 10th Secretary of Agriculture, ,Jas. Wilson, visited western North Carolina in the internet of the Appalachian National Forest Reserve movement accompanied by the following gentlemen: J. A. Wilson, private secretary to Sec, Wilson; Prof. Gifford Pinchot, Chief'Of the Government Forestry Rept;, ?, J, Mc(5ee, W, S. Bureau of {Ethnology; F, H, Newell, U. G. Geological Survey; Prof, j, a. Holmes, State Geologist and Hon, Thfeo.F, Kluts, Men'ber ef Congress. The party visited the Smokies nnd the Flacks, spend ing one night on the top of Mt. Hitch ell and were enthusiastic over the region and gave it as their opin-i.cn th.at the Appalachian National forest reserve was net only a necessity to the Southeastern States, but- that it would probably be passed at Hie coming session of Congress, The press throughout the country have all contained articles upon ft&r movement, while the best papers have had favorable
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