INDEX. 



201 



Page. 



Letter, President McKinley to Congress 166 



President Roosevelt to Congress 3 



Secretary of Agriculture to President McKinley 166 



Secretary of Agriculture to President Roosevelt 13 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Forester, to Secretary of Agriculture 43 



Secretary of Interior to Secretary of Agriculture 110 



Mr. Charles D. Walcott, Director of Geological Survey, to Secretary of 



Interior 110 



Mr. Willis L. INIoore, Chief of Weather Bureau, to Secretary of Agri- 

 culture 145 



Limestone, distribution of 119 



group, shales, sandstones, etc 119 



Linn, size, distribution, etc . . 105 



Blue Ridge (see also i^rtssjwod) 105 



Linville Gap 127 



Mountains 126 



River, falls of 126 



gaging stations 136 



List of shrubs of Southern Appalachians 107 



Little Pigeon River, water power on 142 



Little Rock Creek 50 



Little Tennessee River, drainage of 116 



floods in 1901 130 



water power on 142 



Basin, topography and soil 80, 81 



agriculture and erosion 81 



forest, distribution, etc 82 



Loblolly Pine. {See Pine.) 



Locust, species, size, distribution, etc 103 



Logging. {See Luynbering.) 



Lower Cambrian formation 119 



Lumbering, culling 57,67 



damages in, by felling, rolling, etc 24, 57, 64, 65, 131, 132 



extent and increase 24, 57 



fires caused l)y 57 



Government control of 61, 68 



improvement in, necessary 66 



in Southern Appalachians generally 52, 53, 61 



methods, early and present 24, 61, 63, 64 



selection of trees in 67 



M. 



McDaniel Bald 53 



McGee, Prof. W. J., article by, on forest reserve 158 



extract 189 



McKinley, President, message to Congress 158, 166 



Management of foi-ests by Government. (See Government management.) 



Manufp.cturing affected by stream flow 134 



importance of 139 



increasing tendency toward 139 



on lower streams .- 139 



Maple, size, distribution, species, etc 104 



on Cowee and Ivantahala Mountains 52 



