The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-12-07


stock N storing can he reached without
good 4.a- To fan to stop these prac-
tlces l' .r-. Station means TO force
honesi t".n INTO them. because other
wise 49, dishonest who surely viii
take 7e,arf1Ec of them Will have
every '- their own way. II the states
VIII t-IE"i these evils. well aud good.
but IL l-;tua must stand ready to aid
them.
tsiahd Waterway systems
should lie pe.,Iopcd.
''Th" .1nscrvatton of our national re-
sources N"! their proper use constitute
the fh01auontal problem which under
lies a!ErH-t every other problem of our
natehTi Hfe. We must maintain for
our oiFi.zttiOn the adequate material
basis without which that civilization
cannot exist We must show foresight.
We n 1-t look ahead. AS a nation we
not ouIT enjoy a wonderful measure of
present rr"Sperity but II this prosper
ity is used Alright 1t is an earnest of
future success such no other nation
will h. The reward of forest ght fot
this nation is great and easily forctold.
But there must he the look ahead,
there must be a realization OF the fact
that u waste. to destroy. our natural
resour.'~ to skin and exhaust the land
instead nf using IL so as to increase its
useful.--. Will result in undermining
in th" a.ys OF our children the very
prosP f-fy which we ought by right to
hand Nn To them amplihed and devel-
oped For the last few years, through
severat agencies, the government has
been eNlrNNoring to get our people to
look ahead and to substitute a planned
and or.,rly development of our re-
source IN place OF n haphazard striv-
ing for immediate profit. our great
river systems should be developed as
nation water highways. the Missis-
y,y,i -. liN,, arv
in inn nr1uce. and the Columbia sec
ond. a although there are many others OF
import" on the Pacific and Atlantic
and Il SUI slopes. The national gov
ernmsHt should undertake this work
and ! nope beginning will be made
in the present congress; and the great
est of rl our rivers the Mississippi
should r.Heive especial attention. From
the Grt1t Lakes to the mouth of the
Mississlppi there should be deep wa
terwaF with deep waterways leading
from ID fu the east and the west. Such
a watHfSay would practically mean
the eN',uslun of our coast line into the
very / mt Of our country. 1t would be
Of inc. glahle beneft to our people. If
begun 7t once it can he carried through
in tim aupreciably to relieve the con-
gestiou of our great freight carrying
lines a. railroads. The work should be
system tJeally and continuously carried
forwarJ IN accordance with some we'll
conceiHed plan. The main streams
Should h" improved to the highest
point uf efficiency before the improve
ment oi the branches is attempted. and
the work should be kept free from
every tafnt Of recklessness or johhery.''
Att U'spn is called to the work Of ir-
rigation and reclamation of govern
ment binds In the same connection he
asks for It revision of the public land
laws along the lines proposed by the
nrriS 81 Re
govern MT should increase its efforts
to con rv" our forests and should in
crease ny purchase the existing forest
preser -s on the subject of the natural
resourt OF the nation he says:
I'm the eastern United States the
miner fuels have already passed into
the hanls of large private owners. and
those D' the west are rapidly following
1t is onEious that these fuels should be
conser ID and not wasted, and it would
be wei. to protect the people against
unjust and extortionate prices. so far
as hat can still be done. What has
been accomplished in the great oil
tic'ls of the Indian Territory by the
a"f m of the administration offers a
ST. ling example of the good results
of sIch a policy. In my judgment the
gut crnment should have the right to
Keep the fee of the coal. oil and gas
fields in its own possession and to lease
the rights to develop them under
proper regulations; or else, If the con
gross will not adopt this method. the
rupl deposits should be sold under lin
itations. to conserve them as public
utilities. the right to mine coal being
separated from the title to the soil.
The regulations should permit coal
lands to be worked in sufficient guam
tity by the several corporations. The
present limitations have been absurd.
sxeossive and serve no useful purpose.
a nd
there should be either fraud or else
Abandonment Of the work of getting
out the coal"
Progreas Of the Work
On the Panama Canal.
work on the Panama canal is pro-
cecding in a highly satisfactory man
ner. In March the total exca avation in