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should receive the serious consideration not only of land-owners, 

 but of the General Aseembly. Such reforesting would not only 

 provide woods for the younger and coming generations, but 

 would serve to limit floods, revive springs, renew soils, and thus 

 enhance the values of the lands. The other suggestion, whicli 

 raises a question as to the existence of "valuable ore deposits"' 

 in Central Kentucky, and limits the conditions permitting vein 

 formation to the Kentucky river region, is not so well consider- 

 ed, unless, as seems probable, Professor Nickles had in mind only 

 the Cineinnatian areas. It is true that no veins have been found 

 in the latter, and that probably none will be found; but, as is 

 shown in other reports, it is a well-determined fact that there 

 are many vein deposits in the interior counties, in the Mohawk- 

 ian series, away from the Kentucky river, which will doubtless 

 prove of value. 



Very respectfully, 



CHARLES J. NORWOOD, 



State Geologist. 

 LEXINGTON, KY., November 1, 1905. 



