1908 HEARING ON THE APPALACHIAN BILL 



the leading business men. On January be in atteiukm. that the number 

 loth a notable conference was held by coming will reach into the hundr 

 representatives of the great textile 

 mills of New England for the purpose Help Frcm jj 

 of taking some effective action with Other 

 regard to the bill now in Congress. Sources 

 Ex-Governor Rollins, of New Hamp- 

 shire, presided, and the meeting was 

 attended by the ablest business men 

 among the textile manufacturers. The 

 result was the appointment of commit- 

 tees to work in the most effective way < u " T g '" ^^ '," V' 1 

 to secure a proper representation of ' ' A '" C nnectlon Ullh the . 

 business men at the conference on the Ia /f, e representation of 

 th the members of the Civic Association 



will be here. The magnificent and ef- 

 fective fight made by this organizat: 



Great Activ- Never before has such to save Niagara from total devastation 

 s yi th the profound and widespread b y water power companies will be re- 

 interest in this measure membered. This Association expects 

 existed in the South. From the or- during the coming year to make the 

 ganization of the Appalachian Nation- Appalachian-White Mountain Nation- 

 al Forest Association, early in the a ^ Forest Bill one of its main objects of 

 winter, not a day has passed but that attention. But other help is coming as 

 many Southern papers have given W ?U- The American Institute of Elec- 

 large attention to the need of preserv- trical Engineers will be represented, 

 ing the forests of the Southern Moun- The members of the Institute know 

 tains. No subject of general National wel l the damage resulting to water 

 interest is to-day receiving more intel- power from clearing away the for- 

 ligent consideration in the South than ests on the mountain slopes, 

 that of the proposed National Forest. Within the last year it has been 

 M any strong articles have appeared by found how terrible is the effect of 

 writers who speak with authority on clearing the forests from the high wa- 

 the various phases of the question, tershed of the Monongahela River. 

 Hundreds of editorials have been pub- The city of Pittsburg and other cit 

 lished in Southern papers during the on the river have suffered disastrous 

 past month. At this writing, January floods, sustaining losses of almost ten 

 ]6th, there is being held in Atlanta, million dollars. On the recommenda- 

 Ga., under the auspices of the above- tion of the Pittsburg Chamber of Coin- 

 named association, the American In- merce the Secretary of Agriculture 

 stitute of Electrical Engineers, and the has included in his recommendation of 

 Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, the area receiving attention, the M<>- 

 a great forestry mass meeting. This nongahela watershed. The Chamber 

 meeting is presided over by Governor of Commerce will be well represented 

 Smith, and has as one of it. c represent- at the hearing. In addition, it is like- 

 atives Governor Glenn, of North Car- ly that other cities, afflicted by \ 

 olina. All phases of the National For- river, will have at the hear- 

 est question are being discussed, and inL:. 



one result will be to secure the attend- The American n for the 



ance of the Governors of various Advancement of S . the orijani- 



Southern States and of the leading nation which v. with the Ameri- 



business men of the South at the hear- can Forestry ' r the bill 



ing in Washington on the 3Oth. As a providing for the first forest rese- 



result of this meeting it is expected in the West, will likewise be rci 



that the ablest men of the South will sented by a special committee, headed 



