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Minutes of initial meeting of the Appalachian National Park Association

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  • 10 ment could not make a better, owing to the increase in value of the timber land. This park would be a paying investment to the government , because it wou-d preserve the timber, becoming so valuable at this time, and because it would thus save the streams which water many a fertile farm in these mountain valleys. The government, indeed, could not make a better investment of the cost of this park. Now, ray friends, there is no necessity for me to say more about the advantages of this country; you know all about-that. You have been making converts of thousands who have come here for health, recreation or pleasure. Ail that is necessary for me to 3ay is that I am glad you are moving in this direction. But do not let us call this park a southern^ Let us not ask for a park for the South. We don't have to. If there were some other place better for a national park, and we could only get one here as a concession, we might ask for a southern park. But let us ask for it as a great national park belonging to ail the country, for all the people — —7^ not for the South alone, but oecause there is no place in all the A country equal to it. I am glad to see you moving in this direction;, / and I am sure the energy with which you have started makes it certain that it will go through. I shall do all I can to aid and as- sist you in making it go through. I want to teilj in fact, that we are going to hokksx succeed and^ei^have a park, (Great applause).
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