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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



the plants or buildings necessary for 

 their use. 



(i) Other similar privileges which 

 do not amount to a disposal of the 

 land. 



RESUME OE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN 

 RESERVE CAMPAIGN. 



Nov. 22, 1899 Appalachian National 

 Park Association organized at 

 Asheville, North Carolina. 



Jan. 2, 1900 Memorial of the Appa- 

 lachian National Park Associa- 

 tion presented to Congress and re- 

 ferred to the Committee of Agri- 

 culture. 



April 17, 1900 Officers of the Park 

 Association appear before the 

 Committee on Agriculture pre- 

 senting the cause of the Appala- 

 chian National Park Association. 



April 21, 1900 Senator Pritchard in- 

 troduced a bill praying for an ap- 

 propriation of five thousand dol- 

 lars for a preliminary investiga- 

 tion. 



April 26, 1900 Senator Pritchard's 

 bill asking for appropriation for 

 investigation passed, became a 

 law on July 1st. 



Summer of 1900 The Bureau of For- 

 estry, with the co-operation of the 

 Geological Survey, investigate the 

 Southern Appalachian Moun- 

 tains. 



Jan. i, 1901 Secretary Wilson, of 

 the Department of Agriculture, 

 sends report to Congress through 

 the President regarding the pre- 

 liminary investigation made. 



Jan. 19, 1901 President McKinley 

 presents Secretary Wilson's re- 

 port with a special message to 

 Congress recommending this re- 

 port to the favorable considera- 

 tion of the Congress. 



Jan. 10, 1901 Senator Pritchard in- 

 troduces a bill praying for an ap- 

 propriation of five million dollars 



for the establishment of a forest 

 reserve in the Southern Appala- 

 chian Mountains, approximating 

 two million acres. Bill referred 

 to the Committee on Agriculture. 



Jan. 28, 1901 Senator Pritchard's bill 

 asking for an appropriation of 

 five million dollars was reported 

 back favorably by the Committee 

 on Agriculture. 



Jan. 18, 1901 North Carolina passed 

 a bill ceding to the National gov- 

 ernment the authority to acquire 

 title for forest reserve purposes, 

 with exemption from taxes. 



Jan. 29, 1901 South Carolina and 

 Georgia passed similar bills. 



March 22, 1901 Alabama did like- 

 wise. 



March 28, 1901 Tennessee and Vir- 

 ginia passed like bills. 



July 3-10, 1901 Secretary Wilson, 

 accompanied by Gifford Pinchot, 

 chief of the Bureau of Forestry; 

 J. A. Wilson, private secretary to 

 Secretary Wilson; W. J. McGee, 

 U. S. Bureau of Ethnology ; F. H. 

 Newell, U. S. Geological Survey; 

 J. A. Holmes, State Geologist; 

 Hon. Theo. F. Klutz, member of 

 Congress of Seventh District of 

 North Carolina, spent ten days in 

 the Southern Appalachian Moun- 

 tains making a personal investiga- 

 tion of the sites wherein it is pro- 

 posed to establish the Appalachian 

 Forest Reserve. 



Dec. 10, 1901 President Roosevelt I 

 transmits report of the Secretary) 

 of Agriculture on the forests, j 

 rivers, and mountains of the' 

 Southern Appalachian region, to< 

 Congress, with recommendation 

 that Congress consider it favor- 

 ably. 

 In addition to the foregoing a bill in 



1904 passed the United States Senate! i 



but the House took no action on it. 





