8 FOREST LANDS FOE THE PROTECTION OF WATERSHEDS. 



the White Mountains, so it is a pretty big task. Now, then, if we can 

 accomplish the same purpose without purchasing, why should we not 

 do that? Have you given that subject any consideration? 



Governor GUILD. I most certainly have, but I think it will be 

 answered later by some of the various experts on whom I shall call. 

 But I might call your attention, sir, and no doubt it has already 

 occurred to you, that the National Government is already protecting 

 reserve tracts of public land, as, for example, in the Yellowstone 

 Park. 



Mr. POLLARD. That is different, Governor ; that is part of the pub- 

 lic domain. We are speaking of private land now. 



Governor GUILD. I understand that, sir, entirely; but it has also 

 found constitutional means to appropriate money for the irrigation 

 of the dry lands of the West, the furnishing of a water supply for 

 those dry lands, and as the President and the President elected and 

 the United States Senate have seemed to find no constitutional diffi- 

 culty with that, and as the President and President elected seem to 

 think it desirable even to issue bonds, if necessary, I can only say that 

 I cordially agree with their opinions, and we will have it demon- 

 strated in detail later. 



I shall now ask Mr. Finney to present various resolutions favoring 

 this project. 



(The following resolutions were presented by Mr. John H. Finney, 

 secretary of the Appalachian National Forest Association:) 



At the eighty-fifth meeting of this association, held at Saratoga Springs, 

 N. Y., September 30, 1908, the following resolution was unanimously adopted : 



" Resolved, That the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers again 

 recognizes the vital importance of conserving the national resources to diminish 

 the growing evils of drought and flood and recommends the passing of laws by 

 States and nation that will apply in correction of loss through fire, waste, and 

 unscientific lumbering, and encourage the planting of new trees necessary to 

 accomplish an increase in our wooded area. It has been fully established by 

 experiences in other countries that competent forest cultivation results in an 

 appreciable increase of timber products. 



" We heartily indorse the effective work of the National Commission for the 

 Conservation of National Resources, and recommend that our association cooper- 

 ate with this commission in furthering our mutual interests." 



A true copy from the records. 



Attest: C. J. H. WOODBUBY, 



Secretary. 



lUTIONS IN BE FOBEST BKSERVES IN THE WHITE AND APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN 

 BANQES. 



Whereas the preservation of forests is indispensable to the national welfare 

 in order that a permanent timber supply may be had and that the water supply 

 of rivers may be maintained and regulated; and 



Whereas the effect of denuding mountain ranges of timber is to subject them 

 to forrential action whereby the soil is washed away, the surface rendered bar- 

 ren, the future growth of forest trees prevented, and disastrous floods caused 

 at certain seasons in the lower courses of the streams, with great destruction 

 of property in cities and towns and damage to farming lands in the river bot- 

 toms, while at other seasons stream flow is almost suspended and great damage 

 inflicted upon manufacturing industries dependent upon water power and 

 navigation; and 



Whereas the unrestricted cutting of the forests upon the White and Appa- 

 lachian mountain ranges threatens those forests with complete destruction, 

 whereby one of the most important sources of timber supply will likewise be 

 destroyed, irreparable damage be inflicted upon vast manufacturing interests, 

 particularly in the New England States, and the towns and cities in the 



