Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-14
Captains Of Industry and Ex-
pertS Address Second
Days Session of
Conference.
JAMES J. HILL GIVEN
A GREAT OVATION
Great Railroad nMdgndte LikenS
Conference to Meeting Of Di-
reCtorS of Great Corporation
of Which Eighty-Seven Mil
lion People Hold Stock.

Washington, May 1.-THE second
DAYS conference at the White House
between the president and governors
of the various states and territories
for the consideration or the conserya-
tion of natural resources Of the coun-
try. met at 10 o'clock this morning.
The president called the meeting to
order and invited Governor Johnson
OF Minnesota to preside.
Perhaps the most distinguished
speaker was James ]. Hill of the
Great Northern on Natural Wealth
of Land and Its Conservation" Then
followed Prof. Chamberlain. presi-
dent OF the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, on soil
Wastage," and II. A. Long of Kansas
City on Forest Conservation"
At the afternoon session Land Re-
sources" will be the theme for dis
Cussion. Addresses are to be made
by former Governor Pardee of Cali
forina on Resources Related to Irri-
cation" and by President Jastro of
the American National Livestock as
sociation on Grazing and Stock Rails
ing General discussion of these
subjects Will be opened by former
United states senator JOS. NJ. Carey
of Cheyenne, Wyo.
J j. Hill wa given an ovation
when nc spoke. He talked for nearly
an hour and al the conclusion was
warmly congratulated by members
of the convention. including Mr.. Bry-
an, who shook hands with him. Hill
likened the assemblage to directors
meeting Of the great political and
economic corporation known as the
United States of America. The stock
holders, he said were the eighty
seven million people or the country.
He said the mineral wealth could be
used but once and it was rapidly be-
ing exhausted. Exhaustion of the coal
supply is not in the indefinite future.
The forests are rapidly disappearing
and the stock of unappropriated land
is rapidly decreasing. He then took
up the subject of soil waste and
showed that the fertility of the soil
is being decreased oy the methods of
farming.
The address of |. &. White, state
geologist of West Virginia, before the
conference yesterday was highly in
structiVo. Mr. White said in part:
A simple glance at a geological map
of the United States. will convince
any one that nature has been most
lavish to us in fuel resources, for We
find d series of great coal deposits
extending in well scattered fields al
most from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the lakes To the gulf, while
even over much of New England and
the coastal plains. vast areas Of peat
the primal stage of coal, have been
distributed. But coal of every variety
from peat to anthracite is not all of
natures fuel gifts to fortunate Amer
iCa Great deposits of both petroleum
and natural gas occur in nearly every
state where coal exists. and in some
that have no coal. What greater
Of fuels could we ask when we find
them stored for Us within the bosom
Of our mother earth in all three Of
the great types, coal, petroleum and
natural gas, only awaiting the tap of
the pick and drill to bring them forth
in prodigai abundance?
What account can we as a nation
give of our stewardship of such vast
fuel trrasureS2 Have We carefully
conserved them, using only what was
necessary in our domestic and indus
'rIa, life. and transmitted the re-
mainder, Ike prudent husbandmen'
uuimpalred to succeeding genera
tions2 or have we greatly depleted
this priceless heritage of power. and
comfort. and source OF worldwide in
flutnCr, by criminal waste and wan
ton destruction The answer should
bring a blush Of shame to every pa
tr'uti. American, for not content with
destroying our magnificent forests.
the only fuel ana supply Of carbon
known to our forefathers we are
with ruthless hands and regardless OF
thu future applying both torch and
dynamite 10 the vastly greater re-
sources of this precious carbon which
provident nature had stored for our
us, I'm the buried forests OF the distant
past The widest anarchists deter
mined 10 destroy ANA overturn the
foundations of government could not
act in a more irrational and thought
less manner than have our people in
permitting such fearful destruction OF
the very sources Of our power and
greatness Let me enumerate some
of the details Of this awful waste OF
our fuel resources that has been going
on with ever increasing speed for the
last forty years.
First let us consider how we have
wasted natural gas, the purest form