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INDEX. 



Page. 



Saluda Kivor Basin (and First and Second Broad) topography, agriculture, 



etc 87 



forests, distribution, etc 88 



Sand and >rravel as water reservoirs 134 



Sand Hickory. (See ///V7>-o?7/. ) 



Sassafras, size, distribution, etc 100 



Savannah River 126 



gaging stations 136 



water power 141 



Sawmills, location, capacity, methods 40, 131, 132 



Scarlet Oak. (SeeOaA-.) 



Scenery 19,29,116,160 



Scrub Pine. (SeePme. ) 



Seasons of 1900 and 1901 137 



vary with altitude on Mount Mitchell 23 



Second Broad River Basin (see Saluda River Basin) 87 



Secretary of Agriculture, conclusions of, from report 38 



letter to Hon. A. J. Beveridge 171 



reports to President 13, 166 



Interior, cooperation in investigation 14 



letter of transmittal to Secretary of Agriculture 110 



Seed trees, selection of 68 



Selection system in lumbering 67 



Senate of United States, reserve bill reported to 158 



bill 5518, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session 168 



Committee on Forest Reservations and Protection of 



Game, report of 168 



Service tree 101 



Settlements not to be disturbed 38 



Shady Valley, forests of 48 



railway in 48 



Shagbark. [See Hickori/.) 



Shaler, Prof. N. S., extract from article in North American Review 158, 188 



Shellbark. (See Hickory/.) 

 Shingle Oak. (See 



Shooting Creek Mountain 55 



Shortleaf Pine. (See Pine.) 



Shrubs in Southern Appalachians, list of 107 



Silky Willow. (See Willow.) 



Silt, formation and movement of 26, 121,134 



Slates, distribution of 119 



Slippery Elm. (See Elm.) 



Slopes of mountains, agriculture on, short lived 26 



clearings on 57 



forest-covered 21 , 126 



grass-covered 27 



soil on the - 125 



steepness of the - 21, 25, 115, 126 



Smoky Mountains. (See Great Smoky Mountains.) 



Snow, earliest and latest 118 



stored in forests 118 



Soco Gap 53 



Soil, affected by forests 31, 121 



