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Letters supporting Appalachian National Park movement

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  • April 50th, 1901, Mr, :'•. \, Tduli, danbary, Conn, My clear Sir!-* i tour favor «f the 2Gth last, if r#Gtiv*da %i to Senator Plutt, l iould state that ve have already come in contact -/ith hiin regarding this Par* matter, lid hat teate friends **io are in the lumber feueiness and she have bean trying to secure control of the timber on the Cherokee Indian Reservation for the past year, Tan Indians, wanted to sell for thirty thousand dollars, hut bafore the sale ooulA fee made i;: hud to r-^c?iw trie indorsement of the Commissioner of Ind.ias Affaire* I went to faah&ngton una explained the ?.,rb untter at that of fice and they readily agreed that the timber on ttiia .reservation should not he sold until after the Park question an I settled, and, as they believed the Park raatter was yoin^ through, they have thus far refuted, to ratify this sale, although the lumber oorporat Ion increased their offer tan thousand dealers, Kb 1 have above stated, Senator Piatt was a friend of the President of this oorporat ion and he (Sen. Piatt) approached the Commissioner of Indian Affairs fmd other officials of W&shington in the interest of his friend., m fa©tf his friend.I reported it currently here that n% he had Senator Piatt on hx& side, that the Park Association
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