The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-11-21
SECOND CONirRENCEOE
GOVERNORS IN WASH
lNGTON.

Washington. Nov. II Th,
much talked-of inventory o
the Nations resources is nov
practically Completed. 10 COZ
slider the material it hal
broug ut togeather the Nation
al Conservation Commission
las Just announced its first
fall meeting for Tuesday, De
cember L. III Washington AT
that meeting the first steps
will be taken toward putting
into tangible shape the re-
suits OF the six months hard
work Oh taking stock OF the
conDtry's waters. forests,
lands, aud minerals.
One week later, after the
Commission has gone over the
inventory, it will hold a joint
meeting in Washington with
the Governors of the States
and Territories. or their re-
representatives.. At this meeting
the inventory will be further
discussed and the report
which the President has re-
quested the Commission to
make to him by January l,
will be formulated.
With less than six months
in which to make the invan-
tory. the four branches into
which the Commission is di-
vided, aided by the conpera-
ton of the Government de
partments. have brought to-
gether what is probably the
most useful collection 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 thsir
c.~.--.-----li>>
pared. These reports, surnrTna=
rized and index,d, will be
submitted TO the Commission
at its coming meeting.
ALI through the summer
general interest in the work
and object of the Conserva-
ton Commission has beel
growing. The public is now
we'll posted on a subject Of
which only a few specialists
had knowledge at the time Of
the Conference of Governors
and experts at the White
House, in May.
The Governors carried the
spirit IF the conference home
with them to til .ir own peo-
pie, and have kept things
moving ever since by appoint
lug State Commissions to
study local problems, by writ
ing and speaking upon the
subject Of conservation, and |
by keeping in close ana help
full touch with the National
Commission. They are ready
to take part in the approach
ing joint meeting. The bare
announcement that it had
been set for December 5 re-
suited in a number Of accep-
tances before the formal i'll
1itation Of the Com Mission |
lad ever got iuto the mails
When the conservation
movement was started, speoi- c
ic information about the ac- T
ual state of our resources !,
vas pertly wanting, partly in :
.ccessible. Certain facts were g
BROADLY known 1t was at /
east unquestionahle that our
esources had been wastefnl!y =
Ised, and that some of them, T
notably the mines, were sure
n time to be completely ex-
while others, for ex- I
mple. the forests, would still y
y hopt perpetually useful by :,
ight management. The. first :
-ork was to get the facts, to Y
low exactly what the situa- +,
:ou was and how it could be
approved by measures that 7
-ould work. Without an in
entory of the resources which
mould show the present con
tion of the resources and
!. way 20 develop them to b
i.p -,efn ~ Jhe best ad- n
ntAr5. conservation was il vi
- vi sfa ing ~ ia the /.
t'-y IT. work is now prac- ].
.*5.t ,t,e tatts are -
@ p do!la,a ami ce4ts. III,
: u coal. board feet O. tin i.
:, aera-It'-t ana horse power
aoros OF land. And II