LETTERS URGING THE ESTABLISH- 

 MENT OF THE WHITE MOUNTAIN 

 FOREST RESERVE. 



United States Senate. 



Washington. D. C. 



January 13, 1906. 



H. M. Suter, Esq., 



Secretary American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, Washington, D. C. 



My dear Sir : 



It is a matter of much regret to me 

 that I find myself unable to respond to 

 your kind invitation to attend the 

 meeting of the American Forestry 

 Association on the 17th hist, and to 

 make a brief address in behalf of the 

 proposed White Mountain Forest Re- 

 serve. The press of public duties is 

 such that I find myself just now una- 

 ble to give much attention to matters 

 outside of my legislative work. The 

 reasons for an appropriation of public 

 funds designed to save the forests of 

 the White Mountain region from dev- 

 astation are so clearly and forcibly set 

 forth in a report from the Senate Com- 

 mittee on Forest Reservations and the 

 Preservation of Game made during the 

 Fifty-eighth Congress that it is impos- 

 sible to add anything to the presenta- 

 tion there made. The White Moun- 

 tains of New Hampshire are in the 

 broad sense the property of the people 

 of the entire country, and I am grati- 

 fied to know that the destruction of 

 those forests is being protested against 

 by leading citizens of many of the states 

 of the Union. While New Hampshire 

 will sustain a loss if the forests of the 

 White Mountain region are destroyed, 

 it is equally true that a positive loss 

 will accrue to the American people as 

 a whole. The objection that has been 

 made in certain quarters that it is a 

 new departure to appropriate public 

 money for the purchase of land for a 

 forest reserve, while technically true, 

 loses its force in view of the fact that 

 millions of acres of the public domain 



have been set aside for forest reserves, 

 thus indirectly taking from the Treas- 

 ury the proceeds from the sale of such 

 lands. In one case the money was 

 halted before it reached the Treasury, 

 and in the other it is proposed to take 

 it from the Treasury after it has been 

 paid in, which, after all, is but a differ- 

 ence in methods. I hope that the re- 

 quisite appropriations may be made in 

 the near future for the acquisition of 

 lands necessary to establish both the 

 White Mountain and Appalachian for- 

 est reserves, as is proposed by bills 

 now before Congress. 



Very respectfully yours, 



J. H. Galunger, 



u. s. s. 



From Hon. T. Jefferson Coolidge. 



Boston, Mass. 

 Hon. F. W. Rollins. 



Dear Sir: I have read with great 

 interest the bill of Senator Gallinger, 

 of New Hampshire, proposing that 

 Congress should make a forest reser- 

 vation of one half a million or more 

 of acres in the region of the White 

 Mountains. 



It is unnecessary for me to say to 

 you that for some years the manufac- 

 turing establishments on the Merri- 

 mac River in New Hampshire have 

 suffered seriously from the cutting 

 down of the forests. One freshet, a 

 few years ago, cost the Amoskeag 

 Company more than one hundred 

 thousand dollars. 



Besides the injury done by the ex- 

 cessive flow of water in freshets, we 

 suffer also in the same way from ab- 

 sence of water during dry seasons, as 

 the woods no longer retain the water. 

 It is emptied at once, and not held 

 back to trickle slowly into the streams. 



But New Hampshire is not the only 

 state to which this reservation would 



