Arizona republican., 1908-05-14
THE NATIONS
 RESOURCES The Planning for Their
 Conservation
The First Session of the Governors White House Conference.

Washington, May 13-Two ideas, destined to mark a material progress in Americas future, resulted from the first of the three days conference at the White House today. in which President Roosevelt, the governors of forty-four states, the cabinet officers, the supreme court judges, senators, representatives and experts are par ticpating in their efforts to reach conclusions as to the best methods of conserving the natural resources of the United States.
 The first is that permanent organi- Zation by the states and nation is a necessary and likely result from the present conference, to accomplish the end sought. The second-sugested by Secretary Root-is that there is no limitation by the constitution to agreemnts which may be made be- tween the states, subject to approval by congress.
 The idea that the conference is to be perpetuated was developed from resolutions offered for later consider ation by Governor Glenn of North
 
 souri.
 Five hundred persons taxed the ca pacity of the room, where the confer ence is held.
 With a flourish of trumpets the president and the vice president en- tered at II o'clock and the conference began. The presidents speech ended the morning session. Governors and delegates were photographed with the president on the portico of the White House. The picture shows William J. Bryan, Andrew Carnegie. J. J. Hill, Gustave SchWab and specially invited participants.
 At the afternoon session the real work began. It developed first, that the president finds it impossible to devote his entire time to the confer ence meetings. He will, as he said today. call to order, each session and then designate a governor to preside. This honor fell today on Governor Noel of Mississippi with an intima- ton from the president that tomorrow he should call upon Governor John son of Minnesota. Then after this an nouncement the president suddenly called upon MT. Bryan. Mir Bryan ac- knowledged the enthusiasm his name brought by lifting his hands and then he indicated his desire to speak Fri day.
 It was from the utterances of MT. Carnegie and those who followed him that the gravity of the problems to be considered were given weight. These facts he bore home with detail but good naturedly hinted that he was disputed by my friend J. J. Hill"
 Dr. l. c. White, of West Virginia, added his expert knowledge and pre- diction to the subjects of coal and iron, in which he predicted the ex- haustion of the Pittsburg coal supply in ninety-three years and the West Virginia fields in practically the same time.
 John Mitchell. former head of the United Mine Workers, estimated that fully 25 per cent of the coal mines al- ready developed, had been wasted in mining a much greater percentage that was in use. Without such waste, which he believed might be overcome, the supply of coal would last 2,000 instead of 200 years as pre- dicted.
 Governor Johnson of Minnesota made a lively talk in which he took issue with MT. Carnegie's statement that wasteful methods prevailed in iron mining in the Lake Superior re- zion and cheerfully assured that gen. tleman that he'll be glad to take issue with him on sonnet hingS."
 John Hays Hammond who has the reputation of being the highest paid mining engineer in the country, read a paper on engineering methods in which he drew the conclusion that