The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-04
FOR hLTl8aiL fDafsl RlSERV
Fine Sh0Wine in Support of the
CuHier Bill
Special Forestry Delegation Appears
Before House Committee ON Agri-
cuiture0Careful Consideration of
the Case Is Promised.

washington. January 80 Cover
nors and their representatives.. other
state officials. federal experts. presi-
dents Of commercial and civic asso-
Citations. and officers and members OF
a dozen forestry bodies, numbering
In all nearly 200. and representing
/ all Of the states east OF the Mississiu-
pl river except FioIiGa. Illinois, In
mana and Mississippi. appeared as a
special forestry delegation before the
mouse an agriculture to-
day, and under the leadership OF
! Governor Hoke SmiSh OF Georgia,
made an exceptionally forceful show
ing OF Facts and figures in support
of the Currier bill. appropriating S5.-
100000 for the purchase Of about
seven million acres of mountain lands
In theAppalachian and White noun
tains Ia be held AZ a national forest
reserve for the conservation and con-
troll Of the navigable power pro-
ducing streams Of the states affected.
Sessions were held both morning
and afternoon in the new house Of
bodybuilding. At each session Chair
man Scott of the committee relin-
pushed control o.. the hearing 70
Governor Smith, IS chairman of the
delegation Though each state speaker
AA"N AN 81 a. ~" NAAS
peculiar needs Of the section he rep
resented. the major CHORD played
upon by all the, vital necessity of fed
eral reclamation Of the head Wafer
lands throughout tie WkIte noun
tains n Appalachian chains, and.
ny preservation and restoration, con
serving and controlling annually the
stream flows SO hat their vast power
producing capacity shall lie retained
- f1fn fGaf 80
and t%luctuation of this capacity
throughout nearly 81 score Of states
were presented by members or the
delegation ami in a mastery sum
ming up Governor Smith pleaded ft'
a favorable report on the bill by the
committee. We did not come here
to seek the aid of the next congress
we want his congress TO appropriate
the money" he said.
Chairman Scott, of the committee
assured the delegation that the case
AS presented would receive the most
careful: and earnest consideration.
A. III. Schoen. Of georgia, repre-
senting the American institute OF
electrical engineers. gave a practical
illuSEratiC%n of the industrial value OF
Appalachian streams and OF the COM
mercial Importance OF conserving and
regulating their annual flows. He
said that the total estimated horse
power caracity of those streams in
the southern states should be equa!
TO the operation OF 14,00n,OOo spin
dies, hut h the constant and in
Icreasfng diminution and yearly huc-
ltuations Of the flows has necessitated
resort 70 auxiliary steam power
plants at many Of the Southern mills.
w. s. Lee, Of Charlotte, represent
ing the state of North Carolina,
chief engineer for the Southern
Power discussed the me
cha2lical detail of the power problem
In the south IS related to he ques-
ttion in hand. He described The
~tsanding up Of gravity pools as caused
directly by reforestation and told OF
the resultant loss Of electrical force
by d%inlinution Of water powre at the
mills. lie mentioned n Instance
within his own charge, where "
1000 900 is about to be spent In the
construction of an auxiliary steam
plant.