Senate Doc. No. 84 



Plate I. 



(4) LAND EROSION ON THE CLEARED SLOPES OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS, (bff pp. 2G-2S. J 



These steep lauds have been cleared, cultivated, abandoned, and mined, all in a few year.s. Their reforestalinn will 



soon be impossible. 



FLOOD DESTRUCTION OF AN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN VALLEY. (See pp. 32, 130. ) 



The floods have washed away the farm and the home, leaving' only the hillside barn. The aggregate damages 

 from floods along these Southern Appalachian streams from April, 1901, to April, 1902, reached the large sum of 

 $18,000,000. 



