Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-05-14
Addresses Made By Andrew Car
negie, and John Mitchell
Interesting Figures.
LIMIT OF 1000 YEARS
Declares Our Supply Of Fuel Will
Be Gone in That Time
Stop Present Waste.
gpeoia, bv United Press wire;

Washington, May 14:-James j.
Hill, the railroad wizard, addressed
the conference Of governors today on
Natural Wealth of the Land and
It's Conservation" He was introduc-
ed by President Roosevelt who an
nounced that Governor Deneen Of
Illinois would preside at the after
noon session.
Other speakers on the days pro-
gram were Professor Chamberlain, of
the University of Chicago on Forest
Conservation; G r. A. Long, president
of the Long-Bell Lumber Company,
of Kansas City; j.. A. Jastro, presi-
dent Of the American Live Stock AS
sociation on Grazing and Stock
Raising"
The banquet at the Willard last
night was feature of the entertain
ment of the visitors.
Mr.. Carneeie's Predictions.
1t was from the utterances of Mr..
Carnegie and those who followed him
that the gravity Of the problems to be
considered were given weight. Two
hundred years of coal supply and half
that OF iron was the prediction of the
famous ironmaster. These facts he
bore home with detail, but good ma
turedly hinted that he would be dis
puted "by my friend, j. J. HILL"
Mr.. Carnegie spoke in part as fol-
lows on the coal question:
"At the present rate of increase the
production in 1887 win be over 3,500,-
O00, 900 tons, or an amount In that year
alone nearly equal to the production
of the seventy-iive years ending in
1895, and with continuation Of the
wasteful methods of mining the con-
! sumption and destruction together dur
ing that one year would equal our to-
tai useful production up to the pres
ent date. Unless there be careful hus-
banding or revolutionizing inventions
or some industrial revolution comes
which cannot now be foreseen the
greater part Of the estimated 2,500,-
O0O, ,0O0,O 600 tons of coal forming our
original heritage win be gone before
the end of the next century, say 200
years hence"
Water Power to Save. Coal.
He expressed the hope that some in
ventor will yet solve the problem of
the fearful waste of potential energy
in coal In present power production.
He also regarded as most promising
| in this direction the substitution Of
other power-such as water.
In concluding his long address Mr..
Carnegie said:
"It seems to me our duty Is:
Conservation of forests, for
no forests, no long navigable rivers
no rivers, no cheap transportation.
"Second.-To systematic our water
transportation, putting the whole work
in the hands of the reclamation serv-
ice, which has already proved itself
highly capable by its admirable work.
Cheap water transportation for heavy
freight brings many advantages and
means great savings of our ore sup
plies Railroads require much steel,
water does not.
"Third. Conservation Of soil. More
than thousand millions of tons of
our richest soil are swept into the sea
every year, clogging the rivers on its
way and filing our harbors. Less soil,
less crops; less crops, less commerce,
less wealth."
John Mitchell, former head of the
United Mine Workers association, re-
ceived cordial reception for the ideas
he advanced He estimated that fully
25 per cent Of the coal in the mines al
ready developed had been wasted In
mining and a much greater percentage
In use. Without such waste, which he
believed might be overcome, the supply
of coal would last 1900. instead of 200
years, as predicted. He concluded with
a plea for more attention to mine oper-
atives, one of whom, he said, is killed
and several injured with the mining Of
every 100000 tons of coal.
Talk by John Hays Hammond.
John Hays Hammond, who has the
reputation Of being the highest paid
mining engineer in the country, read a
paper ON engineering methods, in
which he drew the conclusion that,
while there was no way to revolution
ize mining methods, they might be Inn
proved greatly.
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