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of water in our streams, there must be 

 a large decrease, if not an entire ex- 

 tinction, of the fish which now swarm 

 every water course flowing through this 

 valley. It would be a severe blow, in- 

 deed, if our people were suddenly deprived 

 of the food furnished by the trout which 

 fill our streams and which have become 

 such an important factor in our lives. 



"If the broad and inviting prairies, 

 which lie between the North Platte River 

 and the mountains on either side, are to be 

 brought under cultivation and made to 

 furnish homes to the coming thousands; 

 if these now barren acres are to perform 

 their part in the great economy of life, it 

 will be necessary that our forests be pre- 



it depends upon the construction of reser- 

 voirs and the promotion in every way of 

 the irrigation question and Congress can- 

 not too soon begin the active work of con- 

 serving our forests, appropriating money 

 for the construction of reservoirs and in 

 every way fostering the life of the arid 

 West." 



Tennessee and A bill has been passed 

 the Appalachian by the Legislature of 

 Forest Reserve. Tennessee ceding to the 

 United States government 

 as a part of the proposed Appalachian 

 Forest Reserve, a strip of territory twenty 

 miles wide along the North Carolina 

 boundary excepting the mineral lands. 



A VIEW OF THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER IN WYOMING. THIS RIVER 



FURNISHES WATER FOR A NUMBER OF IRRIGATION CANALS 



IN COLORADO, WYOMING AND NEBRASKA. 



served and kept intact as natural reservoirs This action on the part of the state of 



of water in the future, just as they have Tennessee gives additional we ght to .the 



been in the past question of creating an Appalachian 



"The great and glowing future of this Forest Reserve Similar action was token 



country depends largely on the protection by the states of \ irginia and Noit 



of our forests from fire and depredations; lma earlier in the year. 



