The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1908-02-20
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
Governor Urges That 1t be Main
tained by the State.

work of the Mississippi geological
survey, department recently ere
ated. It's aims are excellent. Tht
necessity of organization, mapping
out lines of work and selection o.
most effective agencies that could be
provided by limited means, have
prevented adequate test of its capa.
bility for good. The United States
government will not only cooperate
by duplicating, or even more, our
6ancial support. but by giving us
the assistance of experts in such line
of work. equipped with the most re-
cent and improved instruments for
making surveys and other investi-
cations.
Accurate knowledge of our un-
derground, and surface water re-
sources is exceedingly important,
for promotion of health, conven-
ience. and for the development of
our industries. Changes ON scien-
tific lines in the courses of streams,
will make much overflpwed land.
now almost worthless. exceedingly
valuable; and in some instances, will
afford needed and inexpensive water
power. The aid of the federal gov
ernment will be literally extended
to those states which will help them
selves and accept its cooperation.
The Typographical work is closely
related and of great usefulness.
knowledge, and intelligently di-
rected efforts of preservation of our
forestry resources is imperativeIy
required. At the present rate of de-
struction and consumption our state
will be divested of all of Its timber
in about twenty years. Care of for
ests and skill in cutting timber, so
as to avoid needless destruction, and
to provide for the future, should be
made a subject of through study |
and of intelligently directed action.
The federal government is will
ing to cooperate with the state in
this work and to lend its help, skill,
men and money, if we will show our
of our own needs by ac-
its cooperation. This work
should not be delayed nor hamper.
ed by insufficient financial support.
and scientific agricul-
ture is one of our states greatest
needs and its most promising aven-
ues to prosperity. As con-
dition precedent to material
in that direc-
tion, our people must have /
accurate information of the charac
ter of their soil and what is needed
to make it and their labor most pro-
ductive. Men and animals can
travel in search of food and other
necessities of life, but plants, Of all
kinds, must have their food, in a
vailable form, within reach of their
roots. knowledge of what each
type of soil is best adapted to. and
what if provided would add most to
it's productive power, can only be
generally known by the gathering
of such-data as proper geological
will provide. Such surveys
are necessary to utilize the benefits
of scientific agriculture practiced on
the states experimental farms and
by enterprising citizens. Change
Of conditions will change results un-
less artificial aid be provided for
to counteract what would otherwise
have been a material change.
There can be no effective and di-
versi6ed and scientific farming.
such accurate knowledge
of the soils as can only be acquired
by geological survey. The sooner
Lhisis done and its benefits appreci-
ated and. realized the better it will
be for the state of Mississippi.
Skill is necessary to develop and
utilize power. The greatest power
in our state is the mental, mortal
and spiritual capacity of our child
rem. Upon its proper-development
rests the prosperity or adversely of
our future. Development of the
mind and heart has been made the
study and life work of many of the
ablest minds ofthe past century.
The benefit of available knowl-
edge and past experience can only
be acquired by a special training,
f,.f1., .,voy;ded for hv orr