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12 tain sides, with si mes ranging from 20 to 40 degrees, often so steep that cultivation was limited to the hoe, there were farm clearings. Everywhere on these slopes and in the mountain covea was the debris of the lumberman or of the bark hunter—for the bark hunter in that section has been about as destructive to the timber interests as the lumberman himself. Some of these mountain-side farms were in cultivation, but many of them had been abandoned as worthless, and stood there barren and bleak, furnishing a water slope filled with gulleys and gorges, too poor for further cultivation, too poor and being washed away too rapidly to permit of its reproducing forest growth. The agricultural life of one of these clearings is, under varying conditions, from three to ten years. In that time the fertility of the soil has all been leached away, and it has become worthless and been abandoned. On this trip I stood upon Whiteside Mountain, one of the finest summits in the Southern Appalachian region. It rises nearly 2,000 feet from the valley below. From the summit of this mountain I saw on the slopes of the nearest mountains about 25 of these mountain-side farms. Only about half a dozen of them, however, were in cultivation. Most of the balance had been worn out and abandoned and stood there desolate and bare, as they will probably stand until the end of time. The valleys through which I traveled were fertile, but the floods of that year had washed away the surface soil of many of those farms, rendering them almost valueless; and in other instances these rich bottoms were covered with a white sand, as dry and lifeless as the sands of the desert, the deposit of the floods. At one place I passed, while on this trip, for nearly a mile down the valley of the Catawba, and on either side of this stream at this point the valley was covered with a sand bank from 3 to 7 feet deep. I was told before the flood which left this deposit these valley lands were worth $100 an acre. After the flood they were not worth 100 cents. In one of the near-by counties to the section J visited the very freshet which had deposited this sandbank in the rich valley of the Catawba had left hundreds of people desolate, had swept away their stock, their fences, their houses, and destroyed their crops. In another county a later flood came near sweeping away the whole town of Marshall, in which my colleague lives. It did actually sweep away his office and destroyed his valuable law library. The damage done to agricultural lands and other property along the streams rising in the Southern Appalachian region by floods in the summer of 1901 is estimated by the Secretary of Agriculture to have been not less than $10,000,000. "Along one river in North Carolina, the Catawba, to which I have before referred, bridges, mills, crops, and farm lands for 200 miles, valued at $1 500,000 were swept away by the storms of May and August. 1901." "In one valley in Mitchell County, to which I have before referred in general terms, a valley largely cleared of forests, the storm of last May wrought damages estimated at more than $500,000." The damage to the property of the Southern Railway, which penetrates these mountains in various directions, by these storms during the last twelve months is estimated at more than $1,000,000, while its loss in traffic was also large. The storms of December, January, and February just passed have rivaled those 5313
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Early on, the Appalachian National Park Association met with legislative success. In 1900, a bill passed authorizing funds to investigate the possibility of a national park in the eastern U.S. and, in December 1901, Congress introduced a bill to purchase land. While the Appalachian National Park Association initially argued for a national park, it used the terms “national park” and “forest reserve” somewhat interchangeably. As the bill made its way through Congress, funds were earmarked for a “forest reserve” rather than a “national park.” Unfortunately, when a separate bill was re-introduced in 1902, Congress was not able to reconcile the two bills and they failed.
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