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THE FORESTER. 



September, 



service list. Mr. Hagger is a graduate of 

 the Swiss Forest School and during the 

 past year has had charge of the experi- 

 mental forest of the Cornell School. 



Appalachian Interest in the proposed Ap- 

 Forest palachian Forest Reserve in- 



Reserve, creases as the time for con- 



vening Congress draws near. 

 The movement looking to the establish- 

 ment of a forest reserve in the southern 

 Appalachians began nearly two years ago 

 and the efforts put forth by the many 

 friends of the project have resulted in 

 action by both the national government 

 and the individual States concerned. Since 

 the organization of the Appalachian Na- 

 tional Park Association at Asheville, North 

 Carolina, November 22, 1899, the fol- 

 lowing- National and State legislation has 

 been enacted: January 2, 1900, Me- 

 morial of the Appalachian National Park 

 Association presented to Congress and re- 

 ferred to the Committee of Agriculture. 

 April 17, 1900, officers of the Appalachian 

 National Park Association appear before 

 the Committee of Agriculture presenting 

 the cause of the Appalachian National 

 Park Association. 



April 2i, 1900, Senator Pritchard in- 

 troduced a bill praying for an appropria- 

 tion of $^,000 for a preliminary investiga- 

 tion. April 26, 1900, Senator Pritchard's 

 bill asking for an appropriation for inves- 

 tigation passed, becomes a law July 1st. 



During the summer of 1900, Bureau of 

 Forestry, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, with the cooperation of the Geolog- 

 ical Survey, investigate the Southern 

 Appalachian Mountains. January 1, 

 1 901, Secretary Wilson, of the Committee 

 of Agriculture, sends report to Congi-ess 

 through the President regarding the pre- 

 liminary investigation made. January 19, 

 1901, President McKinley presents Secre- 

 tary Wilson's report to Congress recom- 

 mending this report to the favorable con- 

 sideration of Congress. 



On January 10, 1901, Senator Pritchard 

 introduced a bill praying for an appropri- 

 ation of $5,000,000 for the establishment 

 of a forest reserve in the Southern Appa- 



lachian Mountains, approximating two 

 million acres. The bill was referred to 

 the Committee on Agriculture. January 

 28, 1 90 1, Senator Pritchard's bill was re- 

 ported back favorably by the Committee 

 of Agriculture. 



On January iS, 1901, the Legislature 

 of North Carolina passed a bill ceding to 

 the National Government the authority to 

 acquire title for forest reserve purposes 

 with exemption from taxes. Within three 

 months the legislatures of Georgia, Ala- 

 bama, and Tennessee passed like measures. 



Early in July of the present year Hon. 

 James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, 

 accompanied by Gifford Pinchot, chief of 

 the Bureau of Forestry ; W J McGee, 

 United States Bureau of Ethnology; F. 

 H. Newell, United States Geological Sur- 

 vey; Prof. J. A. Holmes, State Geologist 

 of North Carolina, and Hon. Theo. F. 

 Klutz, member of Congress from Seventh 

 District, North Carolina, spent ten days in 

 the Southern Appalachian Mountains mak- 

 ing a personal investigation of the sites 

 where it is proposed to locate the Appa- 

 lachian Forest Reserve. 



Death of In the death of Captain 



Captain Cross. Judson Newell Cross, 

 president of the Minne- 

 sota State Forestry Board, at Minneapolis, 

 Saturday, August 31st, the cause of for- 

 estry lost an earnest champion and able 

 advocate. Death came very suddenly, 

 while Captain Cross was apparently in ex- 

 cellent health, from the bursting of a blood 

 vessel in the brain. 



For many years since his boyhood, in 

 fact Captain Cross was a lover of trees, 

 and was one of the first laymen to take an 

 interest in the preservation of the forests. 

 It may be said of him that his profession 

 was the law, and his hobby forestry. He 

 was a member of the Minnesota State 

 Forestry Association and president of that 

 body in 1S99-1900. He laid the founda- 

 tion of the Minnesota forestry system and 

 the two laws passed bv the legislature on 

 that subject were his handiwork and owed 

 their passage in large measure to his 

 efforts. He was an untiring: reader of all 



