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    "title": "Poems and Letters relating to Peary's 1909 North Pole Expedition",
    "description": "This file contains poems and letters dedicated to Robert Peary and the 1909 expedition to the North Pole. Also included are poems relating to Frederick Cook and his claim of reaching the North Pole first.",
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    "ocrText": "one\nlion acres of trees. All over the\nthrough the rest, burning hundreds\nstate are-or were-isolated com-\nof thousands of acres of primeval\npanies of the old stalwarts, ten\ngrowth.\nacre and forty acre groups of pines\nUnder its unbroken forest Wis-\nor of cut-over ground belonging to\nconsin lay, a land of treasure.\nthe state. Two hundred thousand\nMost of its soil is rich; its rivers\nacres of this was turned over to\nrun swiftly and are full of power;\nthe Forester and he has been sell-\nand their lower reaches offered fine\ning it off for agricultural land, and\nwater for navigation. Along the\nTHE \"WHIIE COAL\" OF THE FUTURE\nfor every acre buying and planting\neast shore extends Lake Michigan,\ntwo or three of the cheap cut-over\nalong the west the Mississippi and\nsand in his new fortress. So he is\nLake Superior is on the north. From a little area of high\nassembling\nhis\nforce.\nAlready there are nearly four hundred\nground in the north central part of the State flow all the\nthousand acres in it.\nstreams which reach these several great waterways. Though\nIt was not long before this reassembling of the army and the\nthere is no mineral fuel in the state its water powers seemed\neffect of it upon the rivers attracted the attention of the mill-\ninexhaustible, drawing their summer water from thousands of\nsite owners at Stevens Point and Grand Rapids and all the other\nponds in the source region. It seemed a State destined to be-\ntowns along the Wisconsin River on the head of which were\ncome among the wealthiest in manufactures of all those mani-\nmost of the new reserves. They came up to Madison and, taki-\nfold things which are made from the forest.\ning advantage of the popularity of conservation, tried to grab\nAt first only the lumber men used the waterfalls, and the logs\nall the ponds in the state reserve for storage. But Griffith\nthat drifted to them were sawed and sent in rafts to market.\nshowed them a better and fairer plan. He drafted a bill of\nSteamboats ascended the rivers and brought in and carried out\nhis own and when it had been submitted and adopted by them\nfreight. Railways crossed the State and charged low rates to\nit went through the legislature and was adopted.\ncompete with the waters. But as the\nStudy this bill well, for it is the best river development bill\nforest burned away and was destroyed\nyet adopted in America.\nthe friable soil of the upper regions\nThe State of Wisconsin is prohibited by its constitution from\nwashed into the ponds and the streams\nundertaking public works. And the reason is that years amo\nbecame less regular. Sand filled the riv-\nthese mill owners, sawmill owners, following the general\ners and destroyed the channels. The en-\ncedure of the day, used their influence to make the State pay\nriched lumber men, caring nothing for\nfor their water-power improvements. So the new law created\nthe future, but satisfied with the present\na corporation-a corporation-not-for-profit, something almost\ngain, abandoned the burned-over land to\nunheard of in America. It is called the Wisconsin Valley\nthe State and deserted their fallen dams.\nImprovement Company, and has a paid-up capital of one hun-\nThe Federal Government spent four\ndred thousand dollars on which it is allowed to earn six per\nmillion dollars in an endeavor to keep\ncent. The stock of this company must be offered to every power\nthe Wisconsin River navigable, and then\nowner on the river, in the proportion which his own power bears\ngave up; and until the railway commis-\nto the whole power of the stream. If he does not care to buy,\nsion came into being the railroads, freed\nthe rest divide it among themselves, but at any annual meeting\nE. M. GRIFFITH\nfrom this competition, charged what they\nhe can come and demand his share at par.\nwould for carrying in the coal that was\nThe corporation, subject to the control of the forester, has\nnecessary to replace the wasted water power.\nthe right of eminent domain over ponds and lands-lands suit-\nWisconsin should be rich. Her furniture factories, standing\nable for water farms-in the source region, and the right to use\nbeside the rivers which bring the lumber to them, should be the\nponds in the forest reserve. The forester sets two monuments.\nlargest in the world. Her paper mills, with an unfailing sup-\nThey cannot raise the water above the one nor draw it below the\nply, should contribute an unlimited supply to the immense de-\nother. This insures the beauty of the forest, which is to be a\nmand. Her toy factories and her boat works should be known\ngreat state park. The corporation builds dams out of its capital\nthroughout the world. But instead. Wisconsin found her forest\nand establishes men to work the sluice gates."
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