The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-12-05
CARNEGIE AND HILL TO
ATTEND MEETING OF GOVERNORS

at Wllldlu I1oAel cu NcAt 4utSudy
Neutrality-suspicious. Roosevelt and
President Elect 1aft to Deliver
Addresses at Afternoon
Nee ing
WASHINGTON, Dee. o.--Anulew
Carnegie aud James j. Hill will both
take part in the joint conservation con
ference which opens here on the Sth,
when the national commission, with the
assistance of the governors of the
states and its other co-operators, Will
get under way the most important pars
of its work SO far, the report TO tue
president, due the first Of the yea.
These two leaders in the industrial
world were prominent figures in the
conference of governors at the White
House last May, which was the imme
date cause OF the creation of the Ma
tional Conservation commission. The
ironmaster's speech at that time on
the mineral resources OF the country
was the first on the three-days' pro-
gram after President Roosevelt S
opening speech, and the railroad organ
izer began the second days session
with 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 the coming
conference will be OF even greater val-
ue than il was at the Mhite House ses
sion because the time has come nov
for the preparation OF definite aud
workable program Of action to meet
the situation that was partially dis
closed at tue White HOUSE meeting an,
has been made more clear by the re-
searches of the National Conservation
commission since then.
The attendance OF the joint con
servation conference viii be compose
Of men who have been active partiei-
pants in the work for conservation
since the White House conference.
About half the governors have deh-
nitely said that they will be present
and the others will send representatives
of their states. These governors or
their representatives will be accom-
panied by the members of the state
conservation commissions which have
been named during the summer and
fall. In addition to these there will
be present the special conservation
committees which have been formed
by 25 or more national organizations.
The session on the morning of the
Sth viii be more or less informal
gathering in the red room of the Viii
lard hotel for the purpose Of organi
ing. At AIS O'Clock that afternoon
comes the big general meeting at the
Belasco theater at which Presiderc
Roosevelt and President elect Taft viii
be among the speakers who will adj
dress the members of the joint con
servation conference, the Rivers ami
Harbor congress, the Southern Com
mereial congress and other organiza-
tions with allied objects whose ses
sions in Washington at that time will
help to make up what has been called
conservation week. After thar
the joint conference will take up its
business in earnest at the Hubbard
Memorial hall. The plan is to take up
one after another the main subjects
which the National Conservation com
mission has been studying
lands, forests, minerals.
The much -talked.of "inventory Of
natural resources is completed now
as far rs present knowledge can & !,
The National Conservation commission
has not made any Of its findings public
so far, but the members of the com
mission declare and the country as a
whole is convinced that the state
affairs is one that requires immediate
and effective action. The problem that
the joint conference must help TO solve
is what form this action must take
and in what direction it must be pushed
to be most effective. This is u task
which demands the shrewdest judgment
which the National Conservation com
mission can call to it's aid, and is one
Tor which both Carnegie and Hill are
eminently fitted. The commission real
ICES that it has reached the critical
point in its work. All the information
70 has gathered in its months of study
VIII result in nothing of permanent
value unless 1t can be made the basis
OF practical program of constructive