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Correspondence regarding the destruction of United States forests

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  • Sept. &§thf 1901, Mr, H. B» Ayers, , Jefferson, N. C. - % ■ | a ; , "My dear Kr, Ayars:-■ 1 have written you several tia.es during the past month "■ , V.-' ■»• but your letters cava been returned to me. 1 have recently gotten into g, conversation! here in Afhevillfe. regarding the number of. acres of wood-land that are no'$t being out annually in thebnited States.* In trying to look the. mutter up 1 have been unable, te find any literature elvioh give* an 4et«aats of this kind, ho you know of anything published giving an estimate of the number of acres cleared per year, or the nuwiher destroyed both by iitnbemen or by fire. T wider* stand that there is about ir-vc hundred and twenty-flve million feet of lum- her .put on the market every year, Ara 1 correct in this, and if so, how many acres cleared would this represent?. a i ..-,' 1 have read ym\f article in The porgster with, a great dfal of interest and believe that the same will be of great? benefit to our cause, I still have wy eye on the Dillingh*i Boundary in the Blackfl but have hesitated about buying it for fMxr that it might be wanted for Park purposes and my actions might be mis-constru*d. %iat is your idAu of that boundary being included, in the area which might be-chosem in-the Mitchell sectionf. ■ ' ■ \
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