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Speech in support of an Appalachian National Park

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  • 12 in floods occurred. En the winter of L901, I stood asp upon a bridge over the Tennessee river and ia« a tana in a boat looking down the chia- ney of his house, which had stood above the reach of the river for SO years. Three souths later the water rose again to'the oaves of his house. The Watauga la a hasty and often an angry atresia, but for half a century the bridge of the Southern Hallway had been beyond its reach Until the first flood of 1^01 swept it away. The new bridge a i lifted higher, cut the aeoond flood was not less dis&sjterous than %'. first. The scientists tell us that in the streams rising In this region theirs arc i era than l,O^O0©no "horse power" yet undeveloped, and I venture to say that their aatiaaate ia fey far too low. Heretofore I forests, the beda of leaves and the porous soil have gathered the water hold it in reserve and thus insured the equable flow or the streas a. With the forests, the leaf beds, and the soil aae, the entire rsil)\_ fall rushes at once into the Lowlands, constant floods result, and m the iry season comes, the reduced springs cannot supply t ■ streams* On the Tennessee river we have little steamboats that a; navigate a -..cist sandbar, Out in recent su&anarci those have oe&n stranded many times high and helpless along the now .incnnstRr.it shores. In suaaer the aster power fails the saauufacturer, while in the winter and spring the power is not content to turn hies sbaala, but washes his Kill away* Tt is indisputable that the deforestation of the
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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