Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-11-17
SECOND MEETING
Of GOVERNORS
To Be Held inWash.
ington Next
Month
LIKE FIRST CONFERENCE
Report on Natural Resources
of Country Will Be
Made.

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE much
talked-of inventory of the Nations re.
sources is now practically completed
10 consider the material it has
brought together the National Con
servation Commission has Just an
nounced its first full meeting for Tues
day. December /, in Washington. At
that meeting the first steps will be
taken toward putting into tangible
shape the results of the six months
hard work on taking stock of the coun-
trys waters, forests, lands and min
erals.
One week later, after the Com
mission has gone over the inventory,
| it will hold a joint meeting in Wash
ln9ton with the governors of the states
and territories, or their representa-
tlves. At this meeting the inventory
will be further discussed and the re-
port which the President has request
January /, will be formulated.
Inventory Covers Everything.
With less than six months in which
to make the inventory, the four
branches into which the commission is
divided, aided by the cooperation of
the government departments. have
brought together what is probably the
most useful collection of facts about
the material things on which nation
al industry and progress are based
that has ever been assembled at one
time.
Reports presenting those facts and
pointing out their significance have
been prepared. These reports, sum-
married. and indexea, will be submit
ted TO The commission at it's coming
meeting.
All through the summer general in
terest in the work and object of the
Conservation Commission has been
growing. The public is now well post
ed 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.
Governors Did Good Work.
The governors carried the spirit of
the conference home with them to
their own people, and have kept
things moving ever since by appoint
| ing state commissions to study local
problems, by writing and speaking up
on the subject of conservation, and by
| keeping in close and helpful touch
| with the National Commission. They
are ready to take part in the approach
| ing joint meeting The bare announce
ment that it had been set for Decem-
| Der resulted in number of accept.
| ances before the formal invitation of
the Commission had even got into the
mails.
| When the conservation movement
was started specific information about
the actual state of our resources was
partly wanting, partly inaccessible.
Certain facts were broadly known. It
was at least unquestionable that our
resources had been wastefully used,
and that some of them, notably others,
for example the forests, could still be
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lagement. The first work was to get
the facts, to show exactly what the sit
uation was and how it could be i'm
Iproved by measures that would work
Without an inventory of the resources
which should show the present condi-
tion of the resources and the way to
ldevelop them to the best advantage,
conservation was in danger of staying
Iup in the air.
| Good Beginning Has Been Made.
But the work is now practically
done. The facts are there, in dollars
and cents, tons of coal, board feet of
timber, acre-feet and horsepower Of
water, acres Of land. And the possible
reform measures have been weighed.
The final report to the President will
be the necessary supplement to the
addresses at the White House confer
Ience. The note of these addresses was
a note of warning. The report is ex-
lpected to show that the warning must
be needed if the exhaustion of natur-
,al resources is not, one day, to i'm
Ipoverish the nation, and it will also
Undoubtedly bring out how the coun-
! try's resources can be developed SO as
to last the longest possible time and
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