Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
CONSERVATION BOARD
WORKS TO PREVENT
ALL WASTE
Commission Gives out First
Schedule on Which lnven-
tory is Being Con-
Quoted.
GOVERNMENT AIDS
THROUGH BUREAUS
They Are Furnishing the Commits
sion With Reports SO That De-
tails Can be Laid Before
Governors When
They Meet.

Washington, Sept. 10.-The nation
al conservation commission has Just
made public the first of its schedules
on which the inventory OF the coun-
trys natural resources is being con-
Quoted. Only a few of the schedules
have, as yet, been given out, but be-
tween the lines of these it is plainly
evident the national conservation
commission intends to hunt down
waste in all its varied forms and TO
devise some means to prevent 1t. This
is apparent in the general schedules
as to each of the four sections of the
comm mlssion-waters. forests, lands
and minerals.
For instance, the schedule relating
to lands inquiries into waste of soil by
erosion, which is the washing away
of the land. That schedule also sug-
gests waste through bad agricultural
methods" The lands schedule like
wise goes into waste in the carrying
capacity of the public range in the
west. The section of waters is in
quiring into how much land capab!s
of irr CATION is wasted by not being
irrigated. More important still Is its
suggestive inquiries tendino to show
that we are wasting our waterways
to an alarming extent by not using
them as we should. Perhaps the
greatest form of waste brought out
in the entire schedule Is that relating
to water power. Two of the official
inquiries are as follows:
Are existing developed water pow
ers put to their full user"
ITO what extent can coal be save l
by the substitution OF water power?"
Under the head of flood waters the
commission inquiries, "To what extent
are flood waters wasted?"
The minerals section of the COM
mission is seeking to find out the
nature and extent of waste in the min
ing, extraction and use of mineral
products" and methods OF preventing
or lessening this waste"
That forest conservation must
largely take the form of saving wastes
in manufacture seems to be the con-
Viction of the conservation commits
sion. The commission is busy con-
Quoting census by correspondence to
find the common wastes in wood US
ing industries. Queries have been
sent to eight hundred manufacturers
of cooperage stock for the purpose OF
getting line on the waste of wood In
the making of barrels and casks.
Similar wastes occur in turning the
logs into headings and in the manu-
facture of barrel hoops. The forest
service is trying to find just how inn
portant such wastes are, with the OBJ
ject of suggesting, If possible, some
way of cutting down the drains upon
the forests which mean no gain to
anyone, but loss to all. The returns
from the inquiries will form part of
the report of the conservation COM
mission, when the work of taking the
preliminary inventory of our natural
resources is completed.
The national conservation commits
sion is to take up reports OF the vari-
Gus government bureaus which are
now at work on this inventory for
general discussion at its meeting, n
this city, Tuesday, December l. One
week later, Tuesday, December 8, the
commissioners will discuss the same
subject with the governors of the
states and territories, or their repre-
sentatives.