The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-11-17
SEEKING CONFERENCE OF
GOVERNORS IN CAPITAL
First Full Meeting VIII Be Held on
Tuesday, December /, When Steps
Win Be Taken to Secure
Results.

Washington, d. c., Nov. 1.-THE much
talked OF inventory of the nations re.
sources is now practically completed.
To consider the material IL has brought
together the National Conservation Com.
mission has Just announced its first full
meeting for Tuesday, December /, in
Washington. At that meeting the first
steps will be taken toward putting into
tangible shape the results OF the six
months hard work on taking stock of
the country's water, forests, lands and
minerals
With less than six moAths in which
to make the inventory, the four branches
into which the Commission is divided,
aided by the cooperation Of the govern
ment departments, have brought together
what is probably the most useful collee.
tion Of facts about the material things
on which national industry and progress
are based that has ever been assembled
at one time. Reports presenting these
facts and pointing out their Significance
have been prepared. Those reports, sum
married and indexed, will be submitted
to the Commission at its coming meet.
ing
All though the summer general inter.
est in the work and object of the Con.
servation Commission has been growing
The public is now we'll posted on a sub
iect OF which only few specialists had
knowledge at the time Of the conference
of governors and experts at the White
House, in Nay.
The governors carried the spirit OF the
conference home with them to their own
people, and have kept things moving ever
since by appointing state commissions to
study local problems, by writing and
speaking upon the subject Of conserva.
ton, and by keeping in close and helpful
touch with the National Commission.
They are ready to take part in the ap.
preaching Joint meeting. The bare an.
nouncemert that ii had been set for De-
cembsr resulted in a number of ac-
esptances before the formal invitation Of
the commission had even got into the
mails.
When the conservation movement was
started, specific information about the
actual state Of our resources was partly
wanting, partly inaccessible. Certain
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least unquestionsble that our resources
had been wastsfully used, and that some
of them, notably the mines, were sure
in time to be completely exhausted,
while others, for example the forests,
could still be kept perpetually useful
by right management. The first work
was to get the facts, to show exactly
what the situation was and how it could
be improved by measures that would
work. Without an inventory OF the re-
sources which should show the present
condition Of the resources and the way
to develop them to the best advantage.
conservation was in danger of staying
up in the air.
But the work Is now practically done,
The facts are there, in dollars and cents,
tons Of coal, board feet Of timber. acre
feet and horsepower of water, acres of
land. And the possible reform measures
have been weighed The final report to
the president viii be the necessary sup.
plement to the addresses at the White
House conference. The note OF these ad
dresses was note OF warning. The
report is expected to show that the
warning must he heedes IF the exhaus
ton OF natural resources is not, one
day, to impoverish the nation, and it will
also undoubtedly bring out how the
resources can be developed SO
as to last the longest possible time and
serve the greatest good Of the people,