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Letters supporting Appalachian National Park movement

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  • J. A. HOLMES, State Geologist. NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Chapel Hill, P. C., August 6, 1900. Mr.C . P, Ambler, Asheville , IT. C, M. dear Pr. Ambler: I was in Asheville fo" onl, a couple of hours and was then on a constant rush or I should have certainly done myself the aleasure of calling to see you. . I sent you on yesterday a copy of an article recently published in the Porester in which you will see the sort of map I had in mind when I wrote you about the preparation of this map some t ime ago.. I am sorry to hear from you and some other sources as to the energetic way in it ich bind grabbers are trying to get hold of the forest lands in western "Torth Carolina, doubtless in a rensure stimulated by the Park agitation. Of course this is hard luck so far as the Park idea is concerned, at the same time the bes^ we can do is to go ahead aLong the present lines. I hope you will continue to collect all data which you can with regard to matters of that sort. I had hoped that the rdiittier people would delay all consideration of the sale o their lands until the Park proposition could he submitted to them f©r conl deration, but natiiral- ly they must look at the thing from a business point of view and probably will be inclined to accept the first proposition which is made to them. I hoped furthermore from what you told me at our interview on the train that tie sale of the timber off the Indian lands has been blocked for the present. As to the newspape r article concerning the Park for the Asheville papers, I have two or three times recently been cautioned by the Washington authorities against printing too much. They seem rather anxious tha " we should print very little about the Park until the investigations are completed and the Government report is printed. Of course the
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