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more careful public attention. This even has extended to 

 opinions that individual owners have no right to allow 

 injury to their own property to exist which brings injury to 

 others. Hideous signs should be fought by crusades of 

 instruction, and by advancing the idea of love of the beau- 

 tiful and increased appreciation of the value of landscape 

 purity. 



I desire to refer to a great forestry work which is going 

 on in this State, to the benefit of many people, indeed, 

 for many generations into the future. While this great 

 work is known in fact, it is too little realized in its vast 

 details. It will become a great object lesson to all visitors. 

 I can only lead up to and barely touch upon details at this 

 time ; nor is the forestry work there yet so formulated in 

 report for me to have the knowledge that will enable me to 

 do more than refer to what it must become ; nor can it be 

 said how far the public can be permitted to enter upon the 

 great reservations of land, with their forest and other cover- 

 ings, which are to protect the superb and extensive water 

 basin that will exist at no very distant day in the Nashua 

 River valley above Clinton. 



The Nashua River water-shed is given as 118.23 square 

 miles (75,667.20 acres). The area of the reservoir when 

 full is 6.56 square miles (4,199 acres) ; its storage capacity 

 is given as 63,068,000,000 gallons ; depth of water near the 

 great dam above level of existing mill pond is 107 feet, with 

 an average depth of 46 feet ; its high- water mark is 385 feet 

 above the level of high tide. The natural hills, dikes and the 

 great dam keep the water enclosed. "The top of the dam 

 is 10 feet above the level of the full reservoir. At the water 

 level it has a thickness of 19 feet, and 145 feet below this 

 level a thickness of 119% feet. The total distance across 

 the valley on the line of the main portion of the dam, at 

 high- water level, is 1,250 feet. The maximum depth of 

 high water to the rock at the down-stream edge of the dam is 

 158 feet." The size of the dam is given, and its figures tell 

 additionally of the extensiveness of the protection of, and 

 receptacle for, this vast body of pure water for more than 

 half the people of our State. 



