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Minutes of initial meeting of the Appalachian National Park Association

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  • 14 M% in these western mountains of your State much remains of the great virgin forests. But what has happened in the other parts of the State will happen in the rest of North Carolina, unless the government interferes and stops it by the establishment of a KXRkx tacieax national park here. Do not hesitate; let us invoke the aid of the government because here private energy will be wasted effort. Mr Chairman, the City of Svannah, as Senator Butler has remarked of the United States, has gone into the park business itself. It is a City of, I believe, 32 miniature parks. Every year we spend the a _ar-;e .amount of, money we raise from taxation on the paries, and of course the City of Savannah desires to enlist itself in this noble work in North Carolina. I have in my pocket a petition signed by the president of the Georgia Central Railroad, the mayor of Savannah, our members of Congress, and other prominent people in our section, &xxxa:4*ici%jt our park rnrnrai'Trm Tr~rrnjinrn%n Wjjj.*M«—Mam%i -ffWptaMt- the government of the united States to *#e* this park. As I attempted to say a few weeks ago when I was here in your uric midst, the government has spent thousands of dollars already in the national park business. Besides the Great Yellow Stone and other parks of that kind, it has ressurrected the old battle fields of this country, and it has erected costly monuments to the memory of the dead, and ha3 marked out the places where contending armies have met and bled and aied. Ai- this to me is glorious and n oble,
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