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honor and credit to this gifted young man, and every 

 one of us is sorry tliat we are not as young as Mr. 

 Pinchot, to go with him into tlie great future of this 

 work. It is going to have a great future, and I am 

 glad to say as a representative of the Pennsylvania 

 Association, that Pennsylvania is ready to go hand in 

 hand and cooperate with you in every good measure 

 of legislation, national or state, that may be desirable, 

 and one of the important purposes here should be to 

 find a base of unity and harmony of action on all 

 national questions. If we can interest earnestly and 

 sincerely the interests that are represented here to-day, 

 and representing the many states that they do, I under- 

 take to predict, and I say it without any qualification, 

 that I believe there is no legislation that we will not 

 be able to secure, because the people who represent the 

 forestry movement to-day will not ask anything that will 

 not be desirable or beneficient or wise and good for the 

 interest and welfare of the country. 



As a member of this Congress from the State 

 of Pennsylvania, that is indirectly interested in 

 the Appalachian Forest Reserve, I want to raise 

 my voice here in advocacy of using our influence with 

 the Congress of the United States to make it possible 

 that we have a forest reservation in the Eastern States. 

 We have learned in the figures that have been given 

 us that the United States owns 63,000,000 of acres of 

 reservations, every one of which is in the West. The 

 Appalachian Reservation, the pitrchase of which has 

 been endorsed and advised by commercial bodies 

 throughout New England and the East, by various 

 forest associations and by the National Board of Trade 

 for several years, at their meetings in January, in 

 Washington, embraces 3,840,000 acres of land, cover- 

 ing an area two hundred miles long and twenty to forty 



