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Senator Pritchard's questions regarding the park movement

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  • December 14th, 1901. List of questions referred to the Appalachian Rational Park Association by Senator J. o. Pritchard, December 7th, 1901. Answers furnisher; by the Appalach inn National Park Association and returned December 16th, 1901, 1, "hat amount of contiguous territory can be purchased by the Government for the use of the forest reserve west of the Blue Ridge"? a. . Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge and the cross chains formed by ftftlsstt and Nantohula Mountains, leaving an agricultural area in the centre, as about Pronklin, Smoky , ,17?,8 sq. miles. Highlands, 432 ■ ■ ' Ksntshal* ::ts. 4214 ■ ■ Pal earn x ftid<fr 4^t. ■ ■ Tot. ,1, ... SO % 4 Sq . 11 ti < s. deducting farm lands, 500 * • 2524 sq. miles, or 1,615,360 acres fff forest lands. 2, How many acres could be. secured in the Smoky range of mountains* A. 1728 square miles, or 1,105,920 acres, deduct ing fan* lands, 105,9go " total, ,.1,000,000 acres forest lands, 3, How many settlers residing in that region ©wr lands in tracts loss than 300 acres0 A. The 1litt4*r boundary of land .tying in twain bounty, North Carolina, consists if one hundred thousand acres of virgin forests, seventy-five thousand ssref of which is under one ownership, Inside of this boundary there are about sixty small tracts of land of less than S00 acres which belong to different parties. Only fourteen of these tracts, however, are occupied, by their owners, the large majority being owned and held in order to secure graslng over the fchole range. These small ownerships exist probably to a greater
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