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INDEX. 



Page. 



Phiiu, wild 102 



Chickasaw 102 



Ponds, lack of 129 



Pond M(jiintaiiis, heiglit ol' 47 



Poplar, Yellow, size, distrihntion, etc 1(10 



Post Oak. {See Oak.) 

 Power. (See Water jmwer. ) 



Precipitation, affected by altitude and season 118 



average and dis(;us.sion 128 



effects on streams 117 



heaviest, except on Pacific Coast 31, 33, 38, 128, 149 



in 1900, 1901 137 



mean monthly and annual (Table 4) 153 



on Mount Mitchell in summer of 1873 149 



torrential 150 



Preliminary report of Secretary of Agriculture 166 



Preservation of forests by National Government 34 



beyond field of individual 34 



poM'er of States 35 



President, the. [Hee McKinley ; Roosevelt.) 



Press, extracts from the 180 



Pressey, H. A., report on hydrography of region 123 



Price, Overton W., report on lumbering in the region 61 



Primeval forests, area of 45 



Pritchard, Senator J. C, bill in Congress presented by 158 



Private protection of forests impracticable 34 



Profit from forest reserve 37, 162 



conservative lumbering 62 



Protection of forests a national problem ■ 35 



Purchase of forests by Government, how effected 35, 36 



Q. 



Quartzite group, location, thickness, etc 119 



Quartzites, distribution of 119 



R. 



Railways in Balsam Mountains 53 



in Shady Valley 48 



Marietta and North Georgia 55 



via Cranberry to .lohnson City 46 



( See also Transportation. ) 



Rainfall (see Precipitation). 



necessitates forest cover 31, 33, 129, 149 



Raleigh (N. C), humidity at 153 



Rapidity of stream flow 117 



Rapids, number and use 138, 139 



Redbud 102 



Red Cedar. {%ee Cedar.) 



Red heart Hickory. (See Hickory.) 



Red Oak. (See Oak.) 



Red Spruce. (See Spruce. ) 



Reforestation of abandoned fields 59 



Region, the Appalachian 16 



