DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
WASHINGTON

January 25, 1915.

Hon. Locke Craig,
Governor of North Carolina,
Raleigh, N.C.

Dear Governor Craig:

Referring to the proposed bill for the protection of game and fish on federal lands in the western part of North Carolina, Mr. Wm. L. Hall of the Forest Service recently conferred with the representatives of the Appalachian Park Association at Asheville in regard to the form of bill which had been sent you. At that conference the point came up that it would probably be well to leave with the Federal Government the decision as to whether or not any land made a federal game preserve should be completely closed to the taking of fish and game at all times. In this view the Solicitor of this Department and the Forester also agreed. I therefore enclose a redraft of the bill sent you some days ago and desire to ask that you consider it as the recommendation of the Department in place of the bill sent you on January 11.

Very sincerely yours,

D. F. Houston,
Secretary.

Enc.