Hon. Swagar Sherley, 



Chairman, Committee on Appropriations of the House, 

 Washington, District of Columbia. 



Sir: 



The State of Maine is warmly interested in the development 

 of the National Park upon its coast, entitled the Sieur de Monts 

 National Monument. 



This park, which has been the gift of citizens to the National 

 Government, occupies the most beautiful tract of land on the 

 Atlantic coast, and has exceptional historic interest. Readily 

 accessible from every eastern section of the Country, unique in 

 landscape character and bordering on the sea, the resort to it 

 and its value to the public as a recreative area could readily be 

 doubled in a few years' time by right development. I sincerely 

 hope that such development may be given it and that the ap- 

 propriation for the purpose now asked by the Secretary of the 

 Interior after personal investigation may be granted. This is the 

 one eastern representative of the National Park System, a sys- 

 tem maintained at the general expense for all the people. It 

 stands already third among the National Park areas of the Coun- 

 try in the number of its visitors and has yet received no Federal 

 aid. 



Trusting that your Committee will take favorable action ac- 

 cordingly on Secretary Lane's request, I remain 



Yours very truly 



(Signed) Carl E. Milliken 



Governor 



