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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 





and others- and by the National Gov- 

 ernment in setting aside 80.000,000 

 acres of forest reservation in the \Y- 



other Xe\v England S mxious to 

 secure a national forest tion of 



sufficient size to guarat'-c ti 



a territory larger than all Xe\v Eng- tinued navigation of 



land, that for non-agricultural lands, their uninterrupted us manufac- 



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government ownership alone ensures turing power, and the- - airitv for do- 



a profitable return. mestic pur p Oses in th tties 'to which 



flow of nearly all of the im- they supply drinking -ater. Such a 



portant rivers of Mew England from reservation would KI steady the 



the W hite Mountain region makes the wood-working industry of all New 



