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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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and others, and by the National Gov- other New England States anxious to 



ernment in setting aside 80,000,000 secure a national forest reservation of 



acres of forest reservation in the West, sufficient size to guarantee the con- 



a territory larger than all New Eng- tinued navigation of those streams, 



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



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government ownership alone ensures turing power, and their purity for do- 



a profitable return. mestic purposes in the cities 'to which 



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



portant rivers of New England from reservation would also steady the 

 the White Mountain region makes the 



wood-working industries of all New 



