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  • 14 now to be protected cross the territory of other States. The Kanawha, which rises in northwestern North Carolina, crosses portions of Virginia, West Virginia, and, in joining the Ohio, borders the territory of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. Its floods are doing damage and its water powers are of value mainly not in North Carolina, but in these other States. The AhVbaraa River has its headwaters in Tennessee, but its flood damage and water powers lie mainly in the States of Georgia and Alabama. Similar statements apply with equal force to the other important streams rising within this region. The revenues of the States within which the forest reserves should be located are not such as to encourage the belief that they could easily afford to make the investment, even should their respective legislatures express a willingness to do so. The only case in which States have purchased lands for the establishment of a forest reserve are those of New York and Pennsylvania, two of the wealthiest States, and the streams to be protected in these States lie wholly or largely within the limits of the individual States. Forests under the control and management of the government in European countries have proved highly profitable investments, yielding under different conditions net proceeds from $1 to nearly $5 per acre. Owing to existing conditions in this country, the proposed Government forest reserve would not yield so large a profit as that of European forests, but it is fair to assume that the sales of timber and other forest products from the proposed forest reserve would soon be sufficient to make it self-sustaining, and even yield a net return to the Government, the profit increasing in the future. In view of the recent storms and freshets throughout the region in question, it is highly important that the Government should take prompt action with respect to this question, to say nothing about the fact that the price of the forest-covered lands is rapidly increasing, and they are being purchased and entered upon by large lumber companies, which will make it all the more difficult for the Government to secure them at a later date at a reasonable price. In the meantime their value for the purpose of a national forest reserve will have diminished because of the reckless manner in which the timber will be cut. There still remain in this region mountain tracts which have, never been invaded by the lumbermen, where are to be found remnants of the splendid hard-wood forests in their virgin state. It is a matter of great interest and importance, not only to men of science, but to the American public, that examples of such forests should remain on the slopes of our greatest mountains in the eastern half of the continent and in a territory in which is to be found the greatest variety of hard-wood trees and associated vegetation to be found anywhere on the continent. The necessity for prompt action on the part of Congress is urgent, and I trust that the bill now under consideration may become a law during the present session. In the consideration of this question, among other things the question of the cost of the proposed forest reserve naturally arises, and I desire to briefly call attention to this phase of the question. The cost of mountain lands, such as are desirable for the proposed forest reserve, will, under the provisions of this 5241
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