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in electrical transportation our water powers should 

 be greater factors for furnishing power in the future 

 than they have in the past; and whereas, the sources 

 of the streams where the injury is done are often in 

 other States than those in which power is used, hence 

 this vital question becomes one which the National 

 Government alone can properly deal with." 



There is another important point, and that is the fact 

 that the southern Appalachian Mountains embrace the 

 last remnant of the hardwood forests of the eastern 

 United States. Owing to there being no swamps or 

 lakes in this entire region, almost the entire rainfall 

 will be lost at once if the forest cover is removed. Upon 

 the continuance of this forest cover depends almost en- 

 tirely the water power, navigation and agriculture of 

 the regions south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers and 

 east of the Mississippi. This proposed forest reserve 

 extends through several State, and it is not practicable 

 to depend upon State action. I, therefore, Mr. Chair- 

 man, in view of these important facts that should 

 impress us with great earnestness and determination to 

 take action at this time, recommend that this question 

 be referred to the Committee on Resolutions, and I 

 sincerely trust that the Committee on Resolutions will 

 take definite action and bring before this Congress a 

 resolution for their adoption. 



Address by Mr. Aubrey White 



Commissioner of Crown Lands, Ontario, Canada 



T ASSURE you I am taken completely by surprise in 



being asked to address you at the present moment. 



I had naturally expected that at some time during this 



Congress I might be asked to say something in connec- 



