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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in relation to the forests, rivers, and mountains of the southern Appalachian region

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  • SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. 181 [Logansport (Ind.) Reporter.] The General Government ought to step in before it is too late. * * * If the timber is all stripped from these hills the streams will dry up and the ultimate loss will be serious and widespread. [Springfield (111.) Journal.] It is certainly true that there have been few park projects that have had more to recommend them. [Cleveland (Ohio) Leader.] It is claimed with reason that such a park would not onlyT be more accessible to the great majority of the American people than the Yellowstone Park ever can be, but it would also be available as a place of resort all through the year. * * * It is true, further, that the proposed Appalachian Park would contain far better specimens of typical American forest life than any which can be found in the Yellowstone Park. That is an important item to be taken into account. [Providence (R. I.) Journal.] There is but one such forest in America, and neglect of the opportunity now presented of saving it may work irretrievable loss. The forests once destroyed can not be replaced. [Now York Lumber Trade Journal.] The Journal is heartily in favor of such a park and hopes that Congress will give it favorable attention. [Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal.] I can not believe that the next Congress will fail to allow an appropriation to carry forward this great work. The Government has already set aside in Western reserves an area of more than 70,000 square miles, while there is not a single Government forest reserve in the East. [Forest and Stream.] The Appalachian Forest Reserve measure must go over to another Congress. We believe, however, that this is simply a postponement, not a defeat, of the scheme. The reserve, there is abundant confidence for believing, will ultimately be established. [Forester, Washington, D.C.] It is safe to say that only the great pressure of other business prevented the House from voting in its favor this year. Some ground will have to be gone over again, but it needs no prophet to see that, though its friends failed of success this year, this reserve will in time be established.
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