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harmful deposition on the flats below. Furthermore, within and below the 

 plateau, the streams increasingly are characterized by short periods of 

 flood, and long intervals of low stage. Also, the supply of drinking water 

 and water power is becoming less constant. 



Most of the timber is owned by outside capital. The United States gov- 

 ernment is seeking to buy wooded land for forestry having completed the 

 first step last September, when it purchased the 60,000-acre Biltmore 

 estate, near Asheville, N. C. 



A passing forest industry is the digging of ginseng and other roots. 

 The normal market price for the first is five dollars to seven dollars per 



4. Snaking logs in the Southern Appalachian Highlands. 



pound, but now, owing to the war, the price has fallen. One old man and 

 his wife, digging "sang" in the woods, wanted to know why it is that the 

 Chinese cannot live without the root, and what would happen to that 

 people when the supply shortly would give out in America, but then con- 

 soled themselves with the thought that probably the Chinese hive enor- 

 mous amounts of it stored away in anticipation. 



Animal Resources. 

 Wild game is becoming surprisingly scarce, due to overhunting. and lax 

 observation of hunting laws. In general the supply of fish is low, some 

 causes being: Dynamiting and seining, lack of restocking, and inconstant 



