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Memorandum to association president and members

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  • GEO. S. POWELL, DR. C. P. AMBLER, President. Sec. and Treas. I Appalachian National |£atk Association $. jflD. Bw 384. asDeiJille, 13, C, -~2-- News paper clippings are now on file to the number of 960. At the last annual meeting we reported that North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama had passed a bill ceding to the flational Govern -ment the right to acquire title and exempting the same from taxation^ and that South Carolina and Tennessee were still to be heard from, ^e now have to report that on March 28th Tennessee passed a similar bill and South Carolina on February 21st also passed this bill,and resolu- On July 3rd - 10th Secretary of Agriculture, Jas. Wilson, visited western North Carolina in the inter4et of the Appalachian National Forest Reserve movement accompanied by the following gentlemen: J. A. Wilson, private secretary to Sec. Wilson; Prof. G if ford Pinchot, Chief of the Government Forestry Deptj W, J, McGee, U. S, Bureau of Ethnology; F. H, Newell, U. G. Geological Survey; Prof. J. A, Holmes, State Geologist and Hon. Thfeo.F. Klutz, Member of Congress. The party visited the Smokies and the Blacks, spending one night on the top of Mt. Mitchell emd" were enthusiastic over the region and gave it as their opinion that the Appalachian National forest reserve was not only a necessity to the Southeastern States, but that it would probably be passed at the coming session of Congress. -J/ 'QCC. WjiijX. ~^fr,-».» Imi]^ frtn mam n ■ r . ar>u^c^ ^/A The press throughout the country have <wsfca^B*aU,uiiiqfl arti cles upon aur movement, while the best papers have had favorable
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