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Letters supporting Appalachian National Park movement

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  • historical interest investing its locality and is of very limited area. VIII. THE PARK WOULD PAY AS A FOREST RESERVE. It is confidentially asserted that no Forest Reserve in the country, with possibly one exception, would yield a larger return to the Government. The forests are very dense ; the timber of valuable species, such as tulip (poplar), oak, chestnut, hemlock and pine, and of great size; the undergrowth is still to a large extent uninjured by fire, and the forests, when made accessible by Government roads and managed in a scientific manner,' would yield an immediate, a constant and a comparatively large revenue. The government is now about to institute methods of scientific forestry. No better place in the United States can be found for the institution on a Government scale of forestry operations, and because of the fine climate, summer and winter alike, it would be the only Forest Reserve of the country where such operations could be carried on uninterruptedly throughout the year. The forests and climate, both incomparable, ordain this as the piace for .the commencement of forestry operations, and, perhaps, as the location eventually of a National School of Forestry. IX. THE TITLE TO THE LAND CAN" BE EASILY ACQUIRED. ' A site for the Park can easily be chosen where the land is held in large areas and..* where the settlers are few. The land now sells for about two dollars an acre, so that a comparatively large Park could be secured at what would be greatly less than its value to the nation. SUGGESTIONS REGARDING LOCATION OF PARK. That the foregoing are the considerations which your petitioner deems of the most imperative nature and which it respectfully suggests should have the early attention of the Congress. That your petitioner does not consider that it would be proper for it to suggest in anything more than a general way what should be the area or the boundary lines of a Park in the Southern Appalachian region. In the opinion of your petitioner this is a matter which could well be left to the decision of the Forester of the Government. 4 Your petitioner is, however, of the opinion that it would be proper to express its conviction that whatever may be the decision respecting the area or exact location of such a National Park, it should contain the highest mountains and the finest scenery in the whole Appalachian system, and this is found in the heart of the Great Smoky and Black Mountains ; and that the Park should also embrace the largest area of virgin forest and the finest example of mixed forest in America, and this is found in the heart of the Balsam Mountains, and all of these are embraced within the limits hereinaftar described. This tract of land will be found to comprise two areas of land, each lying partly in Tennessee and partly in North Carolina, connected by a narrow strip extending along the line dividing those States, and embracing land in each of them. In the eastern end of this tract will be found, with others, the following named mountains : Mt. Mitchell, altitude 6,711 feet. Balsam Cone, altjitude 6,671 feet. Deer Mountain, altitude 6,233 feet. Roan Mountain, altitude 6,313 feet. Big Craggy, altitude 6,068 feet. Potato Top, .... . . altitude 6,393 feet. Black Brother, altitude 6,619 feet. Cat Tail Peak, ...... altitude 6,611 feet. Black Dome altitude 6,502 feet. Mt. Gibbs, altitude 6,591 feet. Mt. Hallback, . altitude 6,403 feet. Hairy Bear, altitude 6,691 feet. Long Ridge, altitude 6,259 feet. In the western part of said tract will be found Mt. Guyot (altitude 6,636 feet), Cling- man's Dome (altitude 6,650 feet), Bald Mountain (altitude 6,220 feet), and many other high mountains, as well as the untouched virgin forest hereinbefore referred to. Your petitioner therefore states that, in its opinion, by far the best land for the Appalachian National Park lies between parallels 35 and 37 of North Latitude, and between the lines 82 and 85 of West Longitude, and within the tract described as follows : Beginning at Joanna Bald Mountain, in the State of North Carolina, on the line dividing the county of Graham from Cherokee and Macon counties, and running thence easterly along said line and the line between eastern Graham county and Swain county to a point on the Tuckaseigee river near Bushlnel ; thence up the Tuckaseigee river to a point two
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