OPERATIONS UNDER THE WEEKS LAW IN 



THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS AND 



WHITE MOUNTAINS. 



The Weeks Law, approved March i, 191 1, provides for the 

 purchase of land for the protection of the navigabiUty of navig- 

 able streams. The Act provided for a total appropriation of 

 eleven million dollars for the purchase of land. Of this, one mil- 

 lion dollars available for the fiscal year 1910, had lapsed before 

 the passage of the Act. Owing to the shortness of time between 

 the approval of the Act (]\Iarch i) and the close of the fiscal year 

 191 1 (June 30) no purchases of land were made from the two 

 million dollars appropriated for that fiscal year. However, a 

 considerable amount of land was examined and there is every 

 reason to suppose that the remaining eight million dollars of the 

 appropriation can be expended advantageously in connection with 

 the examination and purchase of land as provided by the law. 



Up to January i, 1912, a total of approximately 515,000 acres 

 of land have been examined by the Forest Service, for the determi- 

 nation of land and timber values. Of this area 134,000 acres are 

 located in the White Mountains and 381,000 acres in the Southern 

 Appalachians. The examinations made by the Geological Survey, 

 as provided by law, to determine the influence upon stream flow, 

 cover approximately 980,000 acres of land, of which approximately 

 650,000 acres have been offered for sale to the Government under 

 the Weeks Law. 



The National Forest Reservation Commission, consisting of the 

 Secretaries of War, Interior, and Agriculture, Senators Gallinger, 

 of New Hampshire and Smith of Maryland, and Representatives 

 Hawley of Oregon and Lee of Georgia, has approved for pur- 

 chase a total of 161,583 acres located as follows: 



30,000 acres in Fannin and Union counties, Georgia, on the 

 watershed of Toccoa River, a tributary of the Tennessee River; 



18,751 acres in McDowell county, North Carolina, on the water- 

 shed of the Catawba River, a tributary of the Santee ; 



33,619 acres in Sullivan and Johnson counties, Tennessee, 

 Washington county, Virginia, on the watershed of the Holston 

 and Watauga rivers, tributaries of the Tennessee ; 

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