The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-20
SECOND CONFERENCE OF
GOVERNORS I'm WASHINGTON

Warrington, Nov. 2O-rbe n,uc,
talkoi Of inventory OF the Nation,s
resources is now practically com
pleted' To consider the material IL
mas Drought together the National
conservation Commission has tus,
announced its first full meeting for
Iuesday, December /, in Washington
Al that meeting the first stems viii
De taken toward putting into tangi-
DIe shape the results of the six months
nard work on taking stock of the
country's waters, forests, lands, ana
minerals.
One week later, after the Com
mission has gone over the inven-
tory, 1t will hold joint meeting
In Washington with the GoyernorS
OF the States and Territories. or
their representative. At this meet
ing the inventory will be further
discussed and the report which the
PRESIDENT has requested the yCommIs.
sion to make to him by January /.
will be formulated,
With less than six months i'm
which to make the inventory, the
four branches into which the Com
mssion is divided, aided by the
cooperation Of the government de-
paGtments, have brought together
what h probably the most userm
collection OF facts about the ma
terial things on which national in
dustry and progress are based thai
has ever been assembled at one
time.
Reports presenting these facts and
pointing out their significance haye
been prepared. These reports, sum-
married and indexed, will be sub
mitted to the Commission at It's
coming meeting.
All through the summer lyu1erat
interest In the work and object o.
the Conservation Commission has
been growing. The public is now
well posted on a subject of which
only few specialists had knowledge |
at the time OF the Conference OF
Governors and exports at the White |
House. In May
line Governors carried the spiri,
OF the conference home with them !
to their own people, and have kept |
things moving ever since by APP
pointing State Commissions to study |
local problems, by writing and
speaking upon the subject OF con
servation, and by keeping in close
and helpful touch with the National
Commission. They are ready to
take part In the approaching JOIN.
The bare announcement
that 1t mad been set for December
Z resulted in number OF acceptances
before the formal invitation OF the
commission had even lgot into the
mails.
When the conservation movement
was started specific Information
about the actual state of our re-
sources was partly wanting, partly
Certain facts wTa
broadly known. 1t was at least un-
that cur rbources hai
been wastefully used, and tnat some
OF thdm, nctably the mines, were
sure in time TO be completely ex-
hausted, while others, for example,
the forests would still be kept per-
petually useful by right management
nhe first work was to get the fact
TO show exactly what the situation
was and how II could be improved
by measures that would work With-
out an inventory OF the resources
which should show the present con
1ition OF the resources and the way
TO develop them to the best adyan-
tage, conservation was in danger
81 staying up in the air.
But the work Is now practica--y /
done. Ihe facts are there, in dot
ars and cents, tons OF coal, boar
eet OF timber. acrc-feet and horse
power OF water, acres Of land. An