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Editorials commenting on the Appalachian National Park movement

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  • ^ the citizens of the United States than any other section where there is %f44%^ any liklihood of a national park reserve being established. Pittsburg, pa.-Post: In the way of forest preservation a striking idea comes from ASheville, North Carolina, which is the center of a movement to make a forest reserve of the group of mountains lying at a point of contact of the boundaries of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Forester, Washington, D, C. It is safe to say that only the great pressure of other business prevented the House from voting in its favor this year. Some ground will have to be gine over again, but it needs no prophet to see that though its friends failed of success this year, this reserve will in time be established, Ashe.vilJLe, Daily Citizen: /[ There»"ll coma^i,'; tlme^riope day*«s»when the^l^kers^gainsj^fffie \ ^oposejd" forest reserve, wiH^irsh that-ttvey hUd^tfee^^jifcofig its '"•*' advocates from' the start. ! - New York Fvening Post: No one who has visited the Land of the Sky has failed to be impressed with its harmonious natural beauties. Forest and Stream: The Appalachian National Park may be regarded as a thing accomplished. A shev ijLJi^ N, 0%, - Gaze tt^e: 9fecretar% wil son* s "erohat i'$, appro'Stal oSL th« App alach ian ft tonal Park project\is a\strong>card ^ itfl^faj^or. Asheville, N. C, Citizen: It is interesting to observe that the Secretary during his stay here has greatly enlarged his plans. He believes now that they should be much more extensive for the preservation of the forests than originally suggested and he is heartily infav&r of greater plans, Louisville, Ky. -Courier- Journal: I cannot believe that the next Congress will fail to allow an appropriation to carry forward this great work. The Government has already set aside in Westers reserves an area of more than 70,000 square miles, while there is not a single Government forest reserve in the Fast.
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