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Legislation on behalf of the Appalachian National Park

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  • rj fs^d^^.Al^m^^Msm^, '' aMaJAaaA^ZW^xx . 51,1901. Dr. C. P. Ambler, Asnev11le, N. C. Dear Sir:- I send you under seperate cover a copy of the Congressional Record of the 20th instant, in which I have been permitted to insert the message of the President and the letter of the Secretary of Agriculture, in relation to the Southern Appalachian Forest Reserve. This will lay tne project before the eyes of ?0,(D00 readers, many of them in the public service, and most of them prominent and influential people. I had a talk ye*+erday with the Secretary of Agriculture, who expressed keen regret that tie Speaker will not give recognition to the iiiteasuie at tnis session, ana also his coniiaent belief that the measure will gain friends and support more and more as it is agitaed ana understood. The agitation of the subject of the irrigation of lands was begun some thirteen years ago, and has been constantly gaining in strength until now the appropriation on three several bills which are annually passed, amounts to over 200,000 for the promotion of this project. Not less than fifty members of the House ana Thirty members of the Senate are directly interested in the matter of irrigation, and I believe ail these members aBd Senators are friends of our project, which is based on the same natural and National consideration. If your association desires to be heard by the House committee on
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