Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-12
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as the playground of nation. It is said that $s.000.00O a year is spent by those seeking pleasure and health in the White mountains. That there is some danger m this revenue being lost to the state is evident from the fact that some frequenters of the re zion are turning elsewhere because of the denudation and consequent loss of one of the sources of the attractive. ness of the mountains.
 It is not as garniture that the for ests of the northern summit of the Appalachians are most valuable. They have a greater importance as con. servator of energy. Standing on hill sides where the rainfall is copious. forests serve to equalize the flow of water after it has fallen. Their net works of roots knit the soil together and prevent the rainfall from rushing off in torrents, carrying the soil with it and carving unsightly gorges in the hillsides. After the removal of the forests not only are the hillsides scored, but the rivers which have their rise in the mountains change their character. Streams once slow to anger and plenteous in mercy are alternately either roaring torrents or impotent rills. The debris from the gullies is swept down to become bars and add to the list of the uncertain. ties of the rivers.
 A bill is now before congress for the establishment of a forest reserve in the White mountains. This bill has been passed by the senate and reported favorably in the house. It is proposed in the bill to spend $1.000,. 900 in the White mountains. Promi. nent state officials, manufacturers and others in all the New England states have signed petitions asking their representatives in congress to press the matter before their interests are further damaged. s..
 The section which 1t is hoped eventually to include in the govern. ment reserve will cover the three Notches, Pinkham, Crawford and Franconia, taking in Spruce noun. tain, Mount Wildcat, Carter Dome and Mount Moriah on the east: Mounts Madison, Adams and Jefferson, of the Presidential Range. and Mount Hale, North Twin mountain, the Haystacl and Mount Lafayette. of the Fran. conia mountains, on the north: Pro. file mountain (noted for the giant hu. man profile in rock projecting from it's brow). Mount Kinsman and Mount Pemigewasset on the west. and Mount | Hancock on the south. The border line suggested would pass through Jackson south of Gorham. cross the railroad near the Lower Ammonoosuc falls, include Bald mountain, but not Franconia village; cross the Fran conia Notch just north of Lincoln and run due east to the valley of the Saco
 That the forests of the White noun. tains can be preserved and at the same time be made a source of in. come has been demonstrated by the Appalachian club. which is endeavor ing by purchase and otherwise to create a reserve in the White noun tains, and by the Breton Woods com pany, which for three years in the winter time has carried on lumber ing right under the windows of the Hotel Mount Washington without leaving a scar on the face of the for. est. A paying crop of timber has been cut, but the young growth has been carefully saved and all fire risk averted by burning the brush and trash. fresh or old. and in ten years using the same carefully laid out log roads. it is expected that the same ground will yield another paying crop