SOUTHEKN APPALACHIAN REGION. 



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[Logansport (Ind.) Reporter.] 



The General Government ought to step in before it is too late. 

 * * * If the timber is all stripped from these hills the streams will 

 dry up and the ultimate loss will be serious and widespread. 



[Springfield (111.) Journal.] 



It is certainly true that there have been few park projects that have 

 had more to recommend them. ^ 



[Cleveland (Ohio) Leader.] 



It is claimed with reason that such a park would not only be more 

 accessible to the great majority of the American people than the 

 Yellowstone Park ever can be, but it would also be available as a 

 place of resort all through the year. * * * It is true, further, 

 that the proposed Appalachian Park would contain far better speci- 

 mens of typical American forest life than any which can be found in 

 the Yellowstone Park. That is an important item to be taken into 

 account. 



[Providence (R. I.) Journal.] 



There is but one such forest in America, and neglect of the opportu- 

 nity now presented of saving it may work irretrievable loss. The 

 forests once destroyed can not be replaced. 



[New York Lumber Trade Journal.] 



The Journal is heartily in favor of such a park and hopes that Con- 

 gress will give it favorable attention. 



[Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal.] 



I can not believe that the next Congress will fail to allow an appro- 

 priation to carry forward this great work. The Government has 

 already set aside in Western reserves an area of moi'e than 70,000 

 square miles, while there is not a single Government forest reserve in 

 the East. 



[Forest and Stream.] 



The Appalachian Forest Reserve measure must go over to another 

 Congress. We believe, however, that this is simply a postponement, 

 not a defeat, of the scheme. The reserve, there is abundant confi- 

 dence for believing, will ultimately be established. 



[Forester, Washington, D. C] 



It is safe to say that only the great pressure of other business pre- 

 vented the House from voting in its favor this year. Some ground 

 will have to be gone over again, but it needs no prophet to see that, 

 though its friends failed of success this year, this reserve will in time 

 be established. 



