The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-02-03

been approved by the national forest
reservation commission, a body created
by congress to purchase land on the
headwaters Of navigable streams for
the protection of their watersheds The
action o. the commission means that
usefulness Of the new national forests
in the East, the inception of which
dates from the beginning Of purchase
work in 1911, will'be greatly increased.
The commission also decided to re-
quest, for the fiscal year beginning
1921. an appropriation of $1O,OOO,OOO
in five annual installments of $1,000
600 for extending purchases. The pro-
gram contemplated is contingent on
the assurance of definite sums being
available for making purchases
through period of years. Without
such assurance the policy will be to
restrict purchases to tracts contigu.
GUS to lands already approved for
purchase. This policy is dictated in
part by considerations relating to the
administration of the lands and fire
protection measures. The lands just
approved for purchase bring the total
area acquired or being acquired under
the act of March 1, 1911, to 1,S35,3Os
acres.
In the White Mountains.
OF the above total 362, oss acres are
in the White mountains. constituting
about One-half Of the mountain lands
which it is desirable to acquire in the
White mountains Of New Hampshire
and adjoining portions of Maine for
the protection of the headwaters of
streams. The purchase
which has been authorized in the
White mountains consists Of 1850
acres Of timbered land in Oxford coun-
ty. Maine, at an average price of 50 an
acre.
In the Monongahela area, Tucker
county, West Virginia, 23,900 acres of
cut-sver land were approved for pur-
chase at an average price Of $2.34 an
acre; also the purchase of 489 acres
in Hardy county, West Virginia, on the
Potomac area, at an average price Of
$4.34 an acre.
In Virginia total Of IA tracts, com
prising 1O,630 acres, were approved for
purchase, the average price being $3.87
an acre. OF this land, sos acres are
In ROckbridge county, 1850 acres In
Amherst county, PA acres in Highland
county and 521 acres in Augusta coun-
ty.
In North Carolina, 4.418 acres in II |
tracts were approved. for purchase.
These are In Buncombe, Burke, Macon,
Mcdowell and Caldwell counties, at |
The average price Of $873 per acre.
The largest tract, that in Burke c0un-
y, comprises 1900 acres.
In Georgia, 52.S2S acres were ap-
proved for purchase at an average
,rice of $500 an acre. This land lies in
Fannin, Union and Rabun
the largest tract being 1888
lcres in Union county. All of the au-
horized purchases are so situated as
o fit in with other tracts already &C
Iuired or being acquired, the purpose
icing to make the publicly owned areas
continuous tracts with as few private
Y owned intervening tracts as pos
ible.
Plan soIidifieation.
In Tennessee, in the Cherokee area,
$50 acres were approved for pur-
base in Monroe county, at price Of
8 an acre.
In the Alabama area there were zap
rcved for purchase in Lawrence and
Winston counties $3.50 acres, the av-
rage price an acre being $500.
The approvals for purchase Of land
! Arkansas were made with view
D further qualification" in the
.rkansas and Ozark forests-that is,
he acquiring of scattered alienated
lnds in the midst Of tracts previously
cquired. The total amounts to 1928
cres at an average price of 1898 an
ere. The tracts are located in Stone,
'ewton, Pope, Montgomery, Scott,
ell, Perry, Polk and Logan counties,
Re largest tracts consisting of 920
cres in Perry county and 800 acres in
tone county of cut-over land.