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Show SIX MILLION ACRES ADDED TO PARK New York, N. Y., April 1. A plan to erctend by G.000,0000 acres the national park holdings of 1,100,000 acres In the southern Apalachlan and White mountains, purchased under the Weelgs law, was endorsed yesterday yester-day at a meeting of tho executive committee of the New York Merchants Mer-chants association In a resolution recommending rec-ommending that the needed additional addition-al legislation be launched. The proposed purchase Includes Mount Mitchell, the highest point cast of the Rocky mountains and the Pi8gah forest of 90,000 acres, which under the ownership of the late George W. Vanderbllt was reforested and cultivated under a scientific system. |