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harmful deposition on the flats below. Furthermore, within and below the 
plateau, the streams increasingly are characterized by short periods of 
flood, and long intervals of low stage. Also, the supply of drinking water 
and water power is becoming less constant. 
Most of the timber is owned by outside capital. The United States goy- 
ernment is seeking to buy wooded land for forestry having completed the 
first step last September, when it purchased the 60,000-acre Biltmore 
estate, near Asheville, N. C. 
A passing forest industry is the digging of ginseng and other roots. 
The normal market price for the first is five dollars to seven dollars per 
4. Snaking logs in the Southern Appalachian Highlands. 
pound, but now, owing to the war, the price has fallen. One old man and 
his wife, digging “sang” in the woods, wanted to know why it is that the 
Chinese cannot live without the root, and what would happen to that 
people when the supply shortly would give out in America, but then con- 
soled themselves with the thought that probably the Chinese hive enor- 
mous amounts of it stored away in anticipation. 
Animal Resources. 
Wild game is becoming surprisingly scarce, due to overhunting, and lax 
observation of hunting laws. In general the supply of fish is low, some 
causes being: Dynamiting and seining, lack of restocking, and inconstant 
