Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-01-01
MADE IN
N. c. CONSERVATION
Real Advancement in Every
Department Reported
for Past Year
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Ky Il e. RASF[ EgRVITI

Raleigh, Jan. 1.-The year 1896,
which came to a close at midnight,
was a year of real accomplishment
and progress in the conservation or
the States natural resources, Paul
Kelly, assistant director of the De
partment of Conservation and Deve-
iopment, pointed out today. Real ad-
vancement was made in almost every
activity of the conservation depart
ment, such as better forest fire con-
troll facilities, more acreage added to
game preserves and refugees, more
tourists and visitors brought to the
State by the departments efforts and
more facilities provided for the pro-
pagation of game BIRDS and game fish
Kelly pointed out.
Some of the more outstanding and
tangible accomplishments of the con-
servation department during the year
1896 were enumerated by Assistant
Director Kelly as follows:
The establishment of some rs miles
of natural fish hatcheries' along
some of the states best game fish
streams by closing certain areas to
all types of fishing in order to per-
NIT the development of the young
fish
Expansion of forest fire control &C
Invites so that now some 15OO0 900
acres of forest land in SO of the 100
counties are now under the Supervi-
sion and protection of the state for
eStry division, as compared with only
100000 acres under it's protection
two years ago. The facilities for the
detection, reporting and suppression
of forest fires have also been great
ly expanded with the result that II
additional fire lookout towers, $40
miles of new telephone lines for the
forest service and 600 miles of fire
lines have been built within the past
years.
Arrangements have been made for
the rearing of wild turkeys and the re
stocking of suitable areas with these
birds, principally in the vicinity of
Mount Mitchell, in Yancey county.
Further. development of the system
of state parks and improvement of
these parks for recreational purposes.
The larger number of tourists
brought into North Carolina as a re-
suit of the efforts of the conservation
department, which issued many thou
SdIlUS OF copies Oh an illustrated DOCK
let 'Come to North Carolina" which
V as sent to travel bureaus and agen-
c,cs in every part of the United States.
The special and detailed survey of
the natural resources and industries
of the state made it the request OF
Governor J. C. b. Ehringhaus, but
which has not yet been made public
Expansion of the State Forestry
Division tree nursery near Clayton
from 9.28 acres to 1O9.78 acres and
the distribution of 100000 seedlings
from this nursery this past year-an
increase of 200 per cent over anv pre-
vious year.
The increased interest in the mine
raj resources of the state, especially
IN gold mining and the investment IF
more than $1,250,000 in prospecting
improving and opening gold mininp
properties, also in the DEVELOPMENT If
clay deposits. Indications now arc
mat the ceramic industry is GOING IN
aevelop very rapidly in the north
western part of the state, where tho
I1hest emma and ceramic clays in the
on..eo states are said to exist.
Inc erection of scores of historioa,
markers, in cooperation with the
state historical Commission and The
oldte highway and Public Works