Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 318, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1920 — Additions to National Forests [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Additions to National Forests

Prepared by the U. S. Department of Agriculture

Purchase totaling 66,881 acres in the White mountains, the southern Appalachians and Arkansas at. an raverage price of $3.91 per aere.have been approved by forest reservation commission, a body created by congresa to'purchase land on thw headwaters of navigable streams for the protection of their watersheds. The action of 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 1811, will be greatly increased. The commission also decided to request, for the fiscal year beginning 1921, an appropriation of $10,000,000 in five annual installments of $2.000 000 for

extending purchases. The program contemplated is contingent on the assurance of definite sums being available for making purchases through a period of years! Without such assurance the policy will be to' restrict purchases to tracts contiguous to lands already approved for purchase. This policy is dictated ip part by considerations relating to the administration of the lands and fire-protection measures. The lands recently approved for purchase bring the total area acquired or being acquired under the act of March 1, 1911, to 1,835,308 acres.

Lost River Issuing From Underground. A Scene In White Mountain National Forest, to Which Has Been Added a Large Tract by Recent Action of the National Forest Reservation Commission.