THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



province, and largely for the following 

 reasons : 



1. They pay dividends in cash. The 

 coming of tourists, campers and vacation- 

 ists is a large source of revenue. The little 

 state of New Hjunpshire collects about 

 $10,000,000 annually from this source, and 

 is yet so short-sighted and niggardly as not 

 to invest a dollar in a state reservation in 

 the White Mountains. 



2. It pays more in dividends of health. 

 All the people of the state need to go camp- 

 ing, to take vacations in the open, to go 

 periodically back to nature. This oppor- 

 tunity they can have only in national or 

 state parks. 



3. They may preserve places of his- 

 toric interest. 



4. They serve many of the same pur- 

 poses as forest reservations, preserving the 

 woods, regulating stream flow, etc. 



5. Most of all the state park offers the 

 best means of preserving types of native 

 landscape, of natural scenery. Have we 



a beautiful mountain? Let us keep it! 

 Have we a noble river? We would like to 

 visit its banks. Have we a quiet lake? It 

 is ours: let us use it. All these resources 



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