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.GASTONIA, N. C, TUE8 DAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1907.
NO, 13
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OA8TONIA, N. C. "
Accounts of Merchants, Manufacturers, and
' ! k : Farmers Invited,
, ; ' : Liberal Dealing along Conservative Lines.
' '..iV We have added a Savings
4 Per cent., "compounded every three months. If you have
' not already opined an account in this department we invite
you to do so, z x r , . . r:
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oldest man
tbe train
service didn't
pretend, to say
bow long San
key had work'
ed for tbe com
pany.
Pat Francis
. wag 'a very o.u conductor, but old man
Saakey was a veteran, when Pat. Fran'
cla began braking.. Baukey ran a paa
aeuger train when Jimmie Brady was
running and Jimmie afterward enlist
ed and was killed in the Custer fight.
There was an odd tradition about
Sankey's name. He was a tall,
swarthy fellow and carried the blood
- of a Sioux chief In bis veins. It was
In the time of the Black Hills exclte-
meat when railroad menV struck . by
the gold fever, were abandoning their
trains, even at way stations, and strifc
lug across. tho divide for Clark's Cross
ing..; Men to run the trains were hard
to get, and Tom Porter, trainmaster,
was putting In every man be could
pick up without reference to age or
color. . v
Porter he died at Julesburg after-J
ward was a great jollier, and be was
.not afraid of anybody on earth.
One day a war party of Sioux clat
tered into town. They tore around
like a storm and threatened to scalp
everything, even to the local tickets.
. The bead braves dashed In on Tom
Porter, sitting In the dispatcher's of-
. flee upstairs. The dispatcher was hid
ing under a loose plank In the baggage
room Boor. Tom, being bald as a sdnd
bill, considered himself exempt from
scalping parties. He was working
. . i game of solitaire when they bore down
on him and Interested them at once.
i . That led to a parley, which ended in
. Porter's hiring the whole band to
- brake on freight trains. Old man San
. . key Is said to have been one of that
: "original war party. -
Now, this is merely a caboose story,
told on winter nights when trainmen
" get stalled In tbe snow drifting down
from the Sioux country. But what fol
lows is better attested.
Sankey, to start with, bad a peculiar
. - nni8-an unpronounceable, ' unsell
able, unmanageable name. I never
heard It, so I can't give It. It was as
hard to, catch' as an Indian cur, and
that name. made more trouble on the
payrolls than all tbe other names put
together. Nobody " at headquarters
. could handle It It was never turned
... in twice alike, and they were always
" t writing Tom Porter about the thing.
Tom. explained several times.' that it
was Sitting Bull's . ambassador who
' " was drawing that tnoney and that he
, usually signed the payroll with a torn a
'" hawk. ' But nobody; at Omaha' ever
kuew how to take a Joke.
- - Tbe first time .Tom went down be
was called In very solomnly to ex
. " plain again about the name, and, be
;vv. Ing In a ( hurry and very tired of the
whole business, Tom spluttered:
H - !TIang it, don't bother me any more
" about that name. If you can't read It,
make It Sankey and be done with It"
They took Tom at his word. They
actually did make It Sankey, and that's
.- how our oldest conductor came to bear
the name1 of the famous singer, and
i, - : more I may say good name as It was
and Is. the Sioux never disgraced it -'
Probably every old ' tra veier .on tue
system knew Bankejk - He was .not
oujy always ready to. answer 'questions,'
but. woat Is much more, always readj
". to answer the same question ttrK.!.'i It
t , Is that which makes conductor) gray
beaded and apoila their chances for
wv lie vea answering the same questions
- over Kud over again. Children were
, -tpt to Le a bit startled at first sight
of- Saukey. be was so dark, but 'he
r tuid a vury nilet smile that always
:.iuade them friends after" the second
trip ihr-ius'j - the sleepers and they
Boaetiuie Tau. about asking for hjin
: after be had left. the train.' -
Of late yors aud It is this that
horts these very same children, grown
ever so much bigger and riding again
to or from California or Japan or Au-"
tralta, will ask' when they reach the
: West End about the Indian conductor.
. But the conductors who now run the
overland trains pause at the question,
checking over tbe date limits on the:
nit!' i ct the coupon tickets, and.
Department, in which we Pay -
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at the children and say slowly, "He
ten t running any more.
If you Tiave ever gone over our line
to tbe mountains or to tbe coast you
may remember at McCloud, where they
change engines and set the diner In or
out, the' pretty tittle green park to the
east of tbe depot with a row of catalpa"
trees along the platform line. It looks
like a glass of spring water.
If it happened to be Sankey's run
and a pegular West End day, sunny and
delightful, you would be sure to see
standing under the catalpa a shy,
dark skinned girl of fourteen or fifteen
years silently watching the prepara
tions for the departure of tbe over
land. - -A.
And after the new engine had been
backed, champing, down and harnessed
to Its long string of vestlbuled sleep
ers; after the air hose had been con
nected and the air valves examined;
after , the engineer had twang out of
his; cab, filled his cups and swung In
again; after the fireman and his helper
had disposed of their slice bar and
shovel and. given the tender a final
sprinkle and the conductor had walk
ed leisurely forward, compared time
with the engineer and cried, "All
abo-o-o-ard!" then as your coach mov
ed slowly ahead you might notice un
der tho receding catalpas the little girl
waving a parasol or a handkerchief at
the outgoing train that Is, at Con
ductor Sankey, for she was his da ugh
ter. Neeta Sankey. Her mother was
Spanish and died when Neeta was a
wee bit. Neeta and tbe limited were
Sankey's whole world.
When Georgle Sinclair began pulling
the limited, running west opposite Fo
ley, . he. struck up a great friendship
with Sankey. Sankey, 'though he was
hard to start was full of early day
stories. Georgle, It seemed, had "the
faculty of getting hlqj to talk, perhaps
because When he was pulling Sankey's
train he made extraordinary efforts to
keep on time time was a hobby with
Sankey. ' Foley said be was so careful
of It that when he was off duty be let
his watch stop just to save time.
Sankey loved to breast the winds
and tbe floods and the snows, and If
he- could get home pretty near on
schedule, with everybody else late, be
was happy, and In respect of that as
Sankey used to aay.' Georgle Sinclair
could come nearer gratifying Sankey's
ambition than any runner we had.
Even the firemen used to observe
that the young engineer, always neat
looked still neater the days that lie
took out Sankey's train. By and by
there was an Introduction under the
catalpas. After that It was noticed
that Georgle began wearing gloves on
tho engine not kid gloves, but yellow
dogskin and black silk - shirts. He
bought them In Denver,
Then an odd way engineers have of
paying: compliments when Georgle
pulled Into town on No. 2, If it was
Sankey's .train, tbe big skyscraper
would give a short, hoarse scream, a
most peculiar note, just as they drew
past Sankey's house, which stood on
the brow of the hill west of tbe yards,
Then Neeta would know that No. 2
and her father and naturally Mr. Sin
clair were In again and all safe and
sound. n'-C 2 :-: :' ) ,
When the railway trainmen held
their division fair at McCloud, there
was a lantern to be voted to the most
popular conductor a gold plated lan-
tv?n, with a green curtain In the globe, I
.Cai Stewart and Ben Doton. who were
very swell conductors and great rivals,
were the favorites and had tbe town
divided over their chances for win
ning t ' . - ... . . ' .
But during the last moments Georgle
Sinclair stepped up to the booth and
cast a storm of votes for old man
Sankey. Doton's friends and Stewart's
laughed at first but Sankey's - rotes
kept ponring in amaslngly. The fa
vorites grew frightened. They "noted
heir Issues by throwing Stewart's voft
to. pdton, but It wouldn't do. Georgle
Sinclair, with a crowd of engineers-
Cameron, Moore, Foley. Bat Mullen
and Burns came back at them- with
such a swing that la . the final round
op they fairly swamped Doton. Ban-
key took the lantern by a thousand
rotes, but I understood It cost Georgle
and his 'friends a pot of money, "
Sankey. said ail the time he didn't
want tbe lantern bnt Jnrt tbe same.
TO MEET IN 0ATS0WA-
Next Session ot Episcopal Con
vocation ot Morf anion lo be
': Held In St Mark's Church
" Here In May or Jane.
v Rev. W. H. Hardin, rector of
St. , Mark's Episcopal cburcb,
returned Sundays from. Morgan
ton where he attended tbe
quarterly meeting- of the Convo
cation ot Morganton wnicn was
held in Grace church . Tuesday.
Wednesday v and Thursday of
last week ' He held 1 services
at High Shoals Sunday morning
and reached uastonia in time for
services here Sunday evening.
Rev. Mr. Hardin reports a
very successful and interesting
meeting. Onexf tbe features of
tbe session was an address by
Rev. Dr. R. R.-Swope, rector of
All Souls church, Baltimore,
who presented the cause of the
men's manic onenne. i nis is
aa offering being made by tbe
men of the Episcopal Church
iq cdmmemoration of the three'
hundredth anniversary of the
establishment of tbe Church in
the United States and will be
presented at the next Genera!
Convention to be held in Rich'
mond, Va.. next fall. Rev Dr.
Swope is diocesan secretary of
the Convocation of Waynesville
and is a speaker of unusual
ability.
The next quarterly meeting of
tbe Convocation of Morganton
will be herd in St.
church here tbe latter part of
May or the first of June. There
are in tnis Convocation about
twenty churches, the terntorv
j covered including
Burke, Cald
well, Catawba, Gaston, Lincoln,
and Cleveland. These consti
tute a missionary district, not
having yet been made a diocese.
Gastonia . will welcome this
religious gathering and tbe dele
gates will receive a warm wel
come at the hands of our citi
zeus. Kev. Ut Jonn b. Moody.
rector of tbe church of the
Ascension at Hickory and of St.
of the Convocation of Morgan-
ton.
While at Morganton, in re
sponse to requests from several
of the oewer churches m terri
tory contiguous thereto, Rev.
Mr. Hardin preached at several
points, driving through the
country in a buggy. In some
places the roads were so bad
that he had to walk several
miles at a time. Atone of these
churches he baptized seventeen
new members.
"WHISKY" COLD CURES.
Danger of Using Alcoholic Mixture
or Coal Tar Tablets.
The most dangerous thing
that one, can do when affected
with a cough or cojd is to use
a medicine that contains whisky
or a tablet that is made of some
coal tar product. Patting aside
all moral objections to filling
up with, whisky or drugs be
cause one has a cold, the in
jurious physical effect should be
sumcient to keep one from using
these strong medicines.
The most sensible as well as
the only scientific way to treat a
cough or cold is by inhaling
medication that will kill the
germs and give reiiet to tbe ir
ritated mucous membrane in the
nose, throat and lungs
Among the few remedies that
are used in this .way, Hyomei
stands pre-emtnent. it is
breathtrd tbronghia neat pocket
inhaler that comes with every
outfit, and the first breath' of its
healing air"" "relieves the irrita
tion, and its continued use soon
effects a thorough cure.
The best people in Gastocu al
ways have Hyomei at hand in the
winter months, and at the first
symptoms of a cold or bronchial
trouble, use the temedy and pre
vent serious and lasting illness.
If you have any doubts as to the
enects ot nyomei in curing
coughs, colds and all bronchial
troubles, the guarantee J. H.
Kennedy & Co., give with every
outfit should convince you of its
curative powers. A Hyomei
outfit costs $1, and if it does not
give satisfaction. J. H. Ken
nedy & Co., will return. your
moneys ' "
,xtra Doilies or nyomei, n
needed, can be obtained for 50c.
but the complete outfit is usual
ly enough to - cure several
colds. . F12-26
A dispatch sent out from Nor
folk, Va. Friday .says; Richard
Matthew confessed at Jackson,
N. C, to having murdered his
.nephew, P a u l Rainey. He
implicates James, Henry and
Sonify Banner, who ' have been
arrested.- Matthew says Rainey
was butchered with an axe 'for
the purpose of robbery. Intense
excitement ' reigns in the Jack
son section... Lynching is pos
sible, i- '..; :
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
-. Mr. W. A. Crane and family
are moving to-day from Besse
raer City to the Avon Mill.
The professional man frho
buys of an -order house and
merchant who has bis printing
done out of town belong to the
same lodge same degree.
j It pays to read the adver
tisements of enterprising home
merchants. They are the peo
pie who make it possible to have
conveniences right at your door,
so to speak.
unite a number ot young
people from Gastonia will go to
the production of Rip Van
Winkle by the St. Mary's
Dramatic Club.
-Many ot our exchanges are
publishing etiquette rules for
'phone use. We would like to
add one. If yon happen to hear
something over the 'phone that
is. not meant for you, it is not
best to repeat it.
The Gastonia Insurance &
Realty Co. last week sold a four
room bouse and a lot on Third
street to Mr. Ed. F. Wilson.
Tbe company also sold a house
acd lot of tbe same description
on tbe same street to Mrs.
Elvira A. Rankin.
Mr Sam Pressly, of Due
West, S. C, a brother of Rev. J.
H. Pressly, was in town this
week on a business tiip. Mr
Pressl is now a traveling sales
man, several yeats ago he lived
in Statesville for a short time and
was a compositor on Tbe Land-
mar k. Statesville Landmark,
8th.
Mr. T. N. Kendrick yester
day sold a block of real estate
on Franklin avenue, between
the residence of Mr. Perry
Dover and the property of Mr.
Dorie Smith, to Mr. Ed F. Wil
son. The consideration is not
given Dut it is tnougnt to be in
the neighborhood of $3,000
Plans and specifications for
a new modern nine room resi
dence for Mr Henry F. Gleun
have been completed and ac
cepted. The residence will be
erected on the corner of Oak
land and Franklin avenues
Materials for tbe building have
already been purchased and
work will begin April 1st.
Mr. J. A. Spencer is taking
stock to day prepaiatory to
turning over his business to the
new corporation, the Gaston
Metal & Roofing Co. Mr. S. S
Morns, secretary and treasurer
of the new company, will move
bis office into the quarters oc
cupied by Mr. Spencer this
week and will take charge of
affairs in a few days.
Farms in our county con
tinue to sell at very good prices
Real estate men report plenty of
buyers, but the list of farms on
the market for sale grows smaller
and it is more difficult now than
formerly to find suitable farm
property that can be bought
cheap. Our land has not yet
reached tbe top price is the opin
ion of well posted men.
E,isewnere in to-day's issue
will be found the professional
card of Mr. John G. Carpenter,
attorney at law, who has located
at Dallas for the practice of his
profession. Mr. Carpenter wfS
one of the successful applicants
before the Supreme Court a few
days ago for license to practice.
some newspaper men are
.terrible liars. In writing of a
cyclone out west one of them
said it turned a well inside out,
a cellar upside down, moved a
township line, blew the staves
out of a whiskey barrel and left
nothing but a bung hole,
changed the day of the week,
blew a mortgage off ' a farm,
blew all the cracks out of a
fence and knocked the wind
out of a politician.
A Cream of Tartar Powder, '
- free from alum or phoar '
i prtatio acid
,Tf' c .'5 . vm-iv
Gaston's Old Soldiers
A iKfri ' f tkt ttitrlMlM Till but?
Ic la lei ti Ike Cast tl The Cafes-
cracy, CmiIM frw MutSmrm Pint
Astbeitlc list Ever Prtitet-li Nearly
Ctailete it Tine User Cn. like It.
Br L. M HorfsMa
Abbreviations
For tbe sake of convenience
and saving space tbe following
abbreviations are made in the
list below:
cm commissioned
Co company
e enlisted
d died
dg discharged -
dt detailed
k killed
w wounded
m missing
p promoted
pr prisoner
r resigned
tr transferred.
Parker. G H.. Co. K. 45th
Reet. e Oct. 24. 64; p Corp
Parker. Jackson. Co. K 49th
Regt. e March 15, '62; d May 15
'62.
Parker. John. Co. H. 52nd
Regt. e March 25, '62; lost Jeg
Pasour. C, Co. A. 11th Regt
e Marcn l, w; w July o, oj, at
Gettysburg. "
Pasour, Caleb, Lo.
D. 37th
A. 11th
Regt. e Aug 15, '62.
Pasour, S. P., Co.
Regt. e Nov 7, '64; dt
Pasour. Levi, Co.
E. 34th
Rfgt. e March 1, '63;
k Mav 3
'63, at Chancellorsville.
Pasour, Felix, (Sr Res.)
Pasour, D. R., Co. B. 28th
Regt. e July 30, '61; w at Cedar
Run lost arm; dg Feb. 12, '63
Pasour. Eli F , Co. H. 37th
Regt. e Oct. 6, '61.
Pasour, Ephnam. Co. H 37th
Regt. e Oct 6, '61; k May 3, '63,
at Chancellorsville.
Pasour, Philip H., Co. H 37th
Regt. e Oct. 6. '61; w at Freder
icksburg and Chancellorsville;
dt in '64.
Pasour, C, Co. H. 37th Regt
Pasour, Samuel, Co. H. 37th
Regt e Aug. 12. '62; k May 3,
'63, at Chancellorsville
Pasour, A. M., Co.
Regt. e March 22. '62.
Pasour, M. E , Co.
Regt. -e-March 22, '62.
Pasour, J. A., Co.
Regt. e March 22, '62.
Pasour, F M., Co.
H. 49ib
H. 49th
H. 49th
H.
49th
Regt. e March 22, '62; d
July 15, '62, at Richmond.
Pasour, John, Co. H.
of W
49th
Reet. e after March 22. '62; d of
disease at Petersburg Nov. 23,
'62.
Pasour, Andrew, Co. H. 49th
Reet. e after March 22, '62; d of
disease at Petersburg Nov. 23,
'62.
Pasour, J. M., Co. C.
Regt. (Jr. Res )
Patterson, E. A., Co. E
71st
57th
Regt.
Patton, J. E., Co,
Regt. e Feb. 2, '64.
Payne, J. A., Co.
Regt. e June 12, '61;
vern Hill; p Sgt.
Payne, T. L.. Co.
Regt. e March 22, '62;
B. 60th
H. 23rd
w at Mai-
H. 49th
w in arm
at Drewry's Bluff May 16,
Payne, J. D., Co. H,
'64.
49th
Regt e after March 22, '62.
Pearson, S. F.,' Co. H. 23rd
Regt. e June 12, '61; d April 6,
62.
Pearson, J. J., Co. H. 49th
Regt. e March 2?, '62; d of w
Aug. 23, '62, at Richmond.
Pearson ,-W. A., Co. H. 49th
Regt. e after March 22, '64; w
w e v 1
in Knee at weiaon Kanroaa
Aug. 24, '64.
Peeler. David. Co. C. 71st
Regt. (Jr. Res.)
Pegram, E. L-, 2nd Lieut. Co
B. 28th Regt. cm July 30, '61.
Pegram, Edward L., Co. B
28tb Regt. e April 30, '62; w at
Gettysburg Aug 25, '64.
Pendergrast, John, Co. K,
Bethel Reet. e Aoril 25. '61.
Pendergrast, John, Co. H. 52d
Regt. e March 25, '62.
Perkins, Alberry, Co. E. 59th
Regt. e July 7, '62. -
Perkins, John. Co. B. 28th
Regt. e July 30, '61; tr.
Perkins, M. C, Co. B. 28th
Regt. e July 30, '61
A Boston dispatch says that
Richard Olney, secretary of
state under President Cleveland,
and a recognized authority on
international law,, declares in an
interview that Japan has a per
fect right to declare war with
the United States if it chooses
a a result of the California
school trouble; although on
the Other band California1 is just
ified in tbe stand she has . taken
on the issue, and the federal
government has no right to in
terfere with California's sov
ereign rights. -
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GASTONIA, N. C.
With sixteen years successful banking experience,
capital, 'surplus and profits of over one hundred aud
twenty-five thousand dollars and deposits of
Over Half a Million
we are in a better position to serve our customers
than ever before in our history. : : : ;
We Invite vou to oDen an account with us.
DIRECTORS
L. L. Jenkins
A. A. McLean
J. Lee Robinson
J. K. Dixon
R. R.
H. M.
St l J f. A..af..t..ta..L,, . w. Jt j, jq.
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Tarred Paper,
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LONG
GASTONIA,
DR. J. M. HUNTER ""specialist
ROCK HILL, S. C.
Makes a Specialty of Cancers, Tumors, Chronic Ulcers, Scrofula and
Rheumatism; Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs and Rectum.
Treats without the knife, loss of blood and little pain to patient.
REFERENCES TO A FEW CASES TREATED .V
R A Clark. Cancer of nose. Rock Hill S C:
C- Mrs. S. R. Nelson, cancer of face, Ogden,
Creek S C- W. W. Stroup, cancer of face, uweli. N. C; Mrs. Barborv McCraw. cancer of
forehead, Gaffney, S Ci&b. Hanna. cancer of neck, Gastpnia, N. C; D. F. GrijrK canctr of
nose. Lattimore. N. C: Vrank Lattimore. cancer of face. Clevland Mills. N.C:J.B. Flowers
cancer of lip, Lowell. N. C: Mrs.M. K. Harrell. cancer of face, Ellenboro, N. C: Mrs. D. P.
Glasco. cancer of forehead, Shelby N. C: D. H. Cobb, cancer of lip. Smyrna. S. C: J. K.
Hambrieht. veiocose ulcer of lea, Blacksburi S. C: K. C. Green, cancer of f ace. Mooresboro
N C J. N. Clonta, cancer of the tonitue. Tirzah. a. C : Mrs. N. a. Adams, cancer of shoulder
Lowell. N. C: G. W. Green, cancer of neck. Mooresboro. N. C: Miss Carrie Hopper,
scrofula. Gaffney, S. C: W, N. Tracy.cancer of neck, Gaffney, S. C: J. B. Hamnck, chronic
ulcer of leg, Mooresboro, N. C; Mrs. H. T. McCraw. cancer of face. Chffside. N.CrJ. H.
McMahon. rheumatism, Henrietta, N. C: L. A. Holland, cancer neck Henrietta, ti, C; G,,.
W. Bridges, rheumatism, Mooresboro,-N. C
ARMY OF THE MISSING.
Hundreds Who Disappear From
New York Never Again Heard
of.
Longacre in Raleigh Times,
New York, Feb. 2 "En
rolled in the city's army of lost
and missing:," that was the fate of
425 oersons in New York, tbe
city of mysteries, last year,
One and all they vanished never
to be heard of again, and van
ished in the most commonplace
manner, simply stepping out of
their homes, offices or hotelSMn
the most commonplace way in
the majority of cases, and fail
ine either to return or to leave
any clue whatever behind them.
In the last decade this list
which is increasing: each year
totalled enough to populate a
fair sized western town. To
the question "Where do they
e, there is only; the grim re
ply of the police "Oh, some
kill themselves, some start life
all over somewhere else, some
sneak back after a few years
and live in secrecy, and some-
why . nobody knows what be
comes of them. They just dis
appear. ' According to these
figures on person - out of every
10,000 in NewYork vanishes
never to return a rather, start
ling percentage. - Coupled with
these figures are -others hardly
less interesing. which show out
of a total of 2.213 children found
by the police during the year,
446 or about 20 per cent were
ft. N. nnvrp r..M.. !
National Bank
T. L. Craig
Andrew E. Moore
J. O. White
G. A. Gray
Ray
McAden
STOCK.
Good and
. .
BROS.
NORTH CAROLINA
Consultation FREE
Mrs. J J. Williams, cancer of (ace. Tirzah, S.
S. C: W. A. Mullinaz, cancer of face. King's
never claimed. Of the 372 .
bodies found during 1906, only
118 were identified, the remain-'
ing "unknown." So from the "
ranks of the youngs the old, and
the dead, the past year in New -York
furnished nearly 1.000' :
mysteries in which the" chief -character
either disappeared or
was never known by identifies--tion.
Less than.one-fiftb of the : -disappearances
can be laid to
the doors of mental' unsound
ness. No one knows the rea
son ; no one never knows the ex -planation.
But every year new
hundreds are added to this city's -army
of "lost, missing and oni-.. .
dentified."
Forestry Reserve' MIL : , v
The Washington correspond r .
ent of The Asheville ; Gazette- -
News says that the forest reserve- v
bill is stiir alive and kicking, -The
Senate comraittee.on -agri
culture has tfhanimonsly .report
ed Senator Simmons' -amend- v
ment appropriatiog J25.000 for
survey" of the area . which : it is -supposed
to reserve ta inspect
the watershed, tic , Before the -committee
took action Mr- Sim v
mons read . his amendment to
Gifford Pinchot,? chiefs of the
forestry department, and a
friend of tbe Presidentrwho ap- -
proves the idea. :Mr. Sirnncm
expresses tbe belief that !:t
amendment will. stand in cc
ference, and that this will r
mit the gwernnect ta t' :
project. . "
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CONTINUED OS 4TH PASS.