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Welsh. It contains much line tiniljcr 

 and will be preserved as a demonstra- 

 tion forest. 



The Appalachian Mountain Club has 

 eleven small reservations comprising 

 750 acres, acquired to preserve spots of 

 especial beauty to the mountain climber. 



belonging to the State are three small 

 reservations: Alonadnock, on ^lonad- 

 nock Mountain, comprising GOO acres; 

 Harriman Reservation in the town of 

 Warner, comprising 200 acres ; and 

 Haven Reservatic^ii in the town of Jaf- 

 fery, comprising lOO acres — all acquired 

 by gift to the State. These tracts should 

 be the nucleus of planted State lands, 

 if sufficient appropriation can be had 

 for this purpose. The State is also 

 engaged in taking over by Legislative 

 Act between five and six thousand acres 

 of the upper end of Harts Location, 

 which we shall have the pleasm-e of 

 showing you from Bretton Woods, ex- 

 tending as far south as Bemis Brook 

 just below the Frankenstein Cliff, arid 

 comprising the most picturesque part of 

 Crawford Notch. A committee of 

 three, appointed by the Supreme Court, 

 is now sitting to hear testimony as to 

 values and areas, to determine the ])ric:^ 

 which will be paid the owners under 

 condemnation proceedings. After the 

 State has acquired this land the For- 

 estry Commission proposes to make a 

 working plan of the age and condition 

 of the various species of trees found 

 thereon, and report to the Governor and 

 Council with recommendations as to the 

 thinnings desirable in the different sec- 

 tions. To assist tliem in this it is pro- 

 posed to secure the services of a land- 

 scape architect to determine if short 

 vistas, giving a view of the lofty side 

 cliff"s, cannot be opened up on both sides 

 of the carriage road at advantageous 

 j)laces without doing injury to the now 

 almost complete shade. It is also pro- 

 posed that a suitable tablet, showing 

 it to be a State Reservation, might be 

 properly placed upon the cliff' face at 

 the Northern entrance, and a gateway 

 at the South end. Paths to exception- 

 ally fine view points ought to be con- 

 structed, and such other suggestions as 

 would make it an attractive place to 

 visit should be carried out by means of 



a liberal api)ropriatioii at the next legis- 

 lature. 



The Federal Government has already 

 purchased three distinct areas; the first 

 of about 7,000 acres, comprising ilse 

 westerly slopes of Mt. J.afayelte 'uid 

 Mt. Garfield^ through which the Siate 

 road dedicated to Mr. Anderson runs 

 between the Profile House and Twin 

 Mountain. This, although largely cut 

 over for soft wood, is still coming up 

 to a fine growth, and offers much fu- 

 ture for the practice of forestry. The 

 second, a 30,000-acre tract, starts from 

 a point within a short distance of the 

 Mt. Washington Hotel and takes in 

 the whole of Cherry Mountain, the 

 Dartmouth Range, and the Northern 

 slopes of the Presidential Range as far 

 as Gorham, and contains considerable 

 areas of old growth timber, second 

 growth cuttings and waste lands, and 

 much of the finest scenery in the State. 

 The third has an area of about 35.000 

 acres in the valley of Wild River, sonie- 

 vvhat off from the tourist route, but par- 

 ticularly desirable for its ])rotection of 

 the stream flow and the coming up of 

 much young growth. 



While the Federal, State and Private 

 forces are engaged in securing them- 

 selves in the possession of land, the 

 towns and municipalities who possess 

 the best opportunity for doing this, have 

 not as yet recognized the great advan- 

 tage which w^ould return to them and to 

 the State from the ])urchase of their 

 waste lands. Alany lands are thrown 

 upon the towns for taxes and could be 

 picked up at a small figure, and if this 

 was done no one step would go farther 

 towards solving the future tiniber sup- 

 ply of the State as a whole. The For- 

 estry Commission cannot too strongly 

 recommend the town and municipal 

 ownership of a certain portion of the 

 State and call this to the attention of all 

 selectmen and mayors of all cities, both 

 because they are in a splendid position 

 to bond for this purpose, which, if 

 rightly handled, should yield a net in- 

 come over and above the interest on 

 such bonds, and because the town in 

 the course of time would thereby in- 

 crease its value for taxation purposes, 

 and meanwhile furnish a labor market 

 close at hand for its citizens. A few 



