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  • F % % — it, Af regards the Government working a hard ship upon the mountain people it it almost ton absurd to discuss, Mr, Vanderbilt hat already located i forest* v&a^wv* of I60,ooo acres and has dene so be buying -out the people owning the land nd I m m re we have never ■ . ■ port in this country of any hard ship teeing wrought by him. If Mr. Yaniierbilt cm secure 160,000 acres without hardship fro any one, it certainly is possible for this Government to do the same kind of business on. ten times dm scale. Que Government, 'moreover, is certainly m- . td.f. to pay the full value for lands received than any private individual may fee* ■ mo\.tntain people are now being shown wherein if this forest reserve is sstablithed it will re salt in conservative liasfeer operations i-r-: tarried out in h• same under Government supervision and will mean par., nent positl* Air^a^ if men in the lumber carp;,,, as patrols and forest nxnt-veK) roar!-builders and so on. If tur movement is successful one of the most important things of all Wiil be -to protects tee £re$erve from fire <<ja trie in itself would offer employment yo pi any men* Tt is not the purpose at all to stop lumber* ing operations, "mmi a tree is .nature it should be out, but it should only be cut in such e manner as not to dastroy the youry and growing trees amy moreover, the brush should, be removed or dettroyed and not
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