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Reasons in Favor of the Establishment of a National Park

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  • lars I put into it is now useless. If this happens now it is easy to perceive the result in the future ii the mountain slopes are cleared of the timber.—Letter from the Highlands. JUL " There is but one objection that could be raised and that is the question of money. What will be the cost? Suppose the government should buy 400,- 000 or 500,000 acres of land ; suppose a committee is sent down to look over the ground, and suppose you find that you have to pay five or six dollars an acre for the land, what would it cost then ? Why a beggarly two million dollars for a great government like this ; less money than we put in a little cruiser, which may be wrecked in a few minutes, like the Charleston.—Hon. Marion Butler. JUL An increase of $10,000,000 over and above enormous appropriations under the continuing contract system it is estimated will be needed for river and harbor improvements. By the destruction of the watersheds of the great rivers of the South we are defeating our object. Let us protect our water supply and then improve our harbors and rivers. JUL RESOLUTIONS. Adopted by the Appalachian National Park Association on the Report of the Committee on Resolutions in Convention Assembled, Nov. 22, 1899. The Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, Mr. Josephus Daniels, made the following report: JUL First. The North has in the Yellowstone National Park the greatest National Park in the world ; and
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