Show GOVERNMENT BUYS BYS LAND FOR FORESTS Th That t the government has expended nearly in the past five years for the purchase of lands for national forests forests in in the Eastern mo mountains was stated by William L. L Hall at the I conference of district foresters in the federal building All of this money has been expended in the Southern A Appalachians in the states of ot Virginia West Virginia Nor North h Carolina Tennessee Tennes- Tennes see and Georgia and In the White l I Mountains of New Hampshire Originally these lands belonged to the states but many years ago they passed into private hands Unregulated Unregulated Unregulated timber cutting clearing and forest forest for fOt est fires brought about the deterioration tion of the forests to such an extent i that destructive erosion resulted By j I 1911 the situation became so serious i I that congress passed the t so called Weeks law which appropriated 2000 I I a year for four years to buy up the most strategic are areas s of these I mountain lands and turn them into national national national na na- na- na I forests With the made available acres have I been acquired by the government I The lands will be managed and used I Ii i on the same plan as the forests of the government in the West Vest but owing t to their to densely settled communities com con and the large cities it is expected expected ex ox- that the volume of use b by the I public will be very great I All the newly purchased lands hands to together together to- to gether with the national forests in Oklahoma Florida and amI Porto Rico have been put Into a new administrative tive district of the forest service The headquarters arters of the new district are at Washington |