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  • ifW- n 56th Congress, \ SENATE. j Document 1st Session. j ( No. 58. MEMORIAL OF THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION. January 4, 1900.—Referred to the Committee on Forest Reservations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pritchard presented the following MEMORIAL OF THE APPALACHIAN NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION, URGING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL PARK AT SOME POINT IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. To the Congress of the United States: The petition of the Appalachian National "Park Association respectfully shows— That your petitioner is an organization composed of citizens from many States in the Union, and was formed for the purpose of bringing to the attention of the Congress of the United States the desirability of establishing a national park at some place in the southern Appalachian region. That the facts which led to the organization of your petitioner, and which are presented as reasons for the establishment of such a national park, are as follows : THE RARE NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. In western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee (or, more definitely, in the heart of the, Great Smoky Mountains, the Balsam Mountains, and the Black and Craggy mountains) is found not only the culmination of the Appalachian system, but the most beautiful, as well as the highest, mountains east of the lofty Western ranges. Forty-three mountains of 6,000 feet and upward in altitude, as well as a great number of inferior height, all clothed with virgin forests and intersected by deep valleys abounding in brooks, rivers, and waterfalls, combine to make this a region of unsurpassed attractiveness. Standing upon the summit of one of these sublime heights the eye often seeks in vain for the bare mountain side—the evidence of the devastating axe—and before one stretches out a view magnificently beautiful. If the1 national parks already established have been chosen for their unusual natural beauty, here is a national park, conspicuously fine, awaiting official recognition as an addition to the number.
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