Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-12-05
CARNEGIE AND. HILL TO
ATTEND CONFEREu't
At WASHINGTON
Hard Headed Business Men
VIII Take Active Part
With Govern
OrS.
WILL MAKE REPORT
TO THE PRESIDENT
Conservation VIII be the Topic OF
Session TO be Held at Ma
tlonal Capital During
Latter Part Of
Next Week.

Washington, Dec 5.--Andrew Car
negie and James j. Hill win both
take part in the joint conservation
conference which opens here Dec, s..
when the national conservation COM
mission with the assistance of the
governors of the states and its other
co-operators will get under way the
most important part of its work so
far, the report to the president, due
the first of this year. These two lead
ers in the Industrial world were
prominent figures in the conference
of governors at the White House last
May, which was the immediate cause
of the creation of the national con-
servation commission. The iron mas
ter's speech at that time on the min.
eral resources of the country was
the first on the three days program
after President Roosevelt's openine
speech, and the railroad organizer
began the second days session with
q discussion of the land resources of
the United States, which has been
more quoted than perhaps any other
single address at that conference.
When the national conservation com
mission was formed both were made
members.
The participation of these two
hard-headed and practical men in
tho con. " CcisttStae. Tln Dc o. even
greatcr value than it was at the
White House session because the time
has come now for the preparation of
a definite and workable program OF
action to meet the situation that wa
partially disclosed at the White
House meeting and has been made
more clear by the researches of the
national conservation commission
since then.
The attendance of the joint con-
servation conference will be compos-
ed of men who have been active par
ticipants in the work for conserva-
tion since the White House confer
ence. About half the governors have
definitely said that they will be pres
ent and the others will send repre-
sentatives OF their states. These gov
ernors or their representatives. will
be accom- panied by the members ol
the state conservation commissions
which have been named during the
summer and fall In addition /,
these there will be present the spe-
cial conservation committees which
have been formed by twenty-five OF
more national organizations.
The session on the morning of the
eighth win be more or less inform
al gathering in the red room Of tn,
Willard hotel for the purpose of or
ganizng. At AIS o'clock that after
noon comes the big general meetins
at the Belasco theater at whict
President Roosevelt and President
elect Taft will be among the speak
ers who will address the members o
the joint conservation conference. tn
rivers and harbOrs congress th'
southern commercial congress an,
other organizations with allied 90
jects whose sessions in Washington
at that time will help to make al
what has been called conservation
week" After that the joint confer
ence will take up it's business il
earnest at the Hubbard memoria
hall. The plan is To take up on
after another the main subjects whicl
the national conservation commission
has been studying-waters, lands
forests, minerals.
The much talked Of inventory O
natural FtSouIttS - cum plttHu NV
as far as present knowledge can gC
The national conservation commissio
has not made any of its findings pub
lie so far, but the members Of tn
commission declare and the countr
as q whole is convinced that tn
state OF affairs is one that require
immediate and effective action. Tn
problem that the joint conferenc
must help to solve is what form thi
action must take and in what dire,
tion il must be pushed to be mos
effective. This Is a task which dc
mands the shrewdest judgment whic
the national conservation cOmmissio
can call 10 its aid and IS one "a
which both Carnegie and Hin al
eminently fitted. The commissio
realizes that It has reached the cri
ical point in its work. All the il
formation it has gathered in I
months Of study will result I'm nOtl
ing Of permanent value unless IL ca
be made the basis of "A practical pr,
gram of constructive activity. II
advice Of such men as Hin and Ca
negie viii be of the utmost value
selecting the points whore imm
diate reform is most urgently necde
and those which can he placed lat,
on the program.