496 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



November 



the kindred interests in the western 

 half. And these are injuries which af- 

 fect the whole nation. The farthest 

 state on the Pacific is injured if the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad between Phila- 

 delphia and Pittsburg is injured, the 

 man who wears a flannel shirt in Mon- 

 tana is injured when the woolen man- 



to say that the preservation of that 

 water power should be left to the legis- 

 lation of the State of New Hampshire, 

 to which the town of Holyoke does not 

 belong? The water which drives the 

 mills at Holyoke comes from the for- 

 ests of New Hampshire, of Massachu- 

 setts, and of Vermont. The paper and 



\ 2 



A Primeval Spruce Forest in the White Mountains 



ufacture of Lawrence or Holyoke is 

 injured. Take that special instance: 

 the water power at the city of Holyoke 

 is said to be the second water power in 

 the United States. The water power 

 NHagara comes first, and the next 

 power among those developed is the 

 power at Holyoke. Is it not absurd 



other fabrics which are made at Holy- 

 oke go over the world. As I said, the 

 ranchman in Montana feels an injury 

 in Holyoke, and the nation to which 

 that ranchman belongs, one might say, 

 owes a debt to Holyoke. Speaking 

 simply, the whole matter of water-flow 

 is a national and not a local affair. 



