FEDERAL AND STATE RESERVATIONS 251 
Appalachian Mountains, and to hand down to poster- 
ity a part of the country in its primeval condition. 
A National park has been much talked of in Min- 
nesota at the headwaters of the Mississippi River. 
These National and State parks and reservations are 
all in the proper line tending toward the proper end, 
which is complete reservation and care of all the 
forest land of the public domain which is unfit 
for profitable agriculture. In the East each State 
should own and properly care for such territory, as 
the Adirondacks, Catskills, White Mountains, ete., 
which is of more value for the health, pleasure, and 
protection to water which it furnishes than for tim- 
ber, although all interests may be simultaneously 
subserved under judicious management. 
