Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-04
(BY JAMES DOUGLAS PRESIDENT pnEIpS DODGE cOMpANY)

Aug 1, '0S, to Sept. 30, '0S. 97,5l0 tons ore mined; 1.091, ,831, feet of tim Der used; 11.30 feet per ton.
 While 1t would be presumptuous to pretend that, as a people. we are eco nomical, and to deny that, under mod ern corporate control of large national resources, the temptation, under nee essity of making large profits, is not betimes stronger than the appeals which conscience makes to subordi- rate personal gain to the national vel fare, I am sure that neither our largest mining and metallurgical com. lanies nor ourselves, as their working agents. are recklessly indifferent to the preservation of those materials upon which the wealth of the corpora. tions and our own salaries depend. No large corporation would today use an old boiler and slidevalve engine with consumption of 10. of fuel per h. D. hr. in preference to a triple-expansion, cutoff engine which will do the same work with 1.5 ID. per h. p.-hr., and so on drought the whole gamut of oper- ations which these large corporations conduct and which se, as their man agers, advise them to adopt, because
 
 most economical methods.
 Corporations unjustiy Blamed.
 While public policy may not be the prime motive for saving, every think ing man in a large institution, from the manager downward, takes 6 pride in knowing that he is saving. and feels a sense of shame when he is conscious of wasting. And in economic life I I1 of ;a life-the rules against waste are be coming more and more rigid and are better enforced. The public outcry therefore, against the large corpora tons for wasting the natural resources of the nation is unjust in so far as il fails to recognize what they have done and are doing in the direction of con servation, and inasmuch as. 1t gives the working staff of these great cor porations SO little credit for the mar velous progress the world has made
 through their instrumentality. The, have saved where formerly. through ignorance and inexperience, their pred ecessors were wasting. With more profound knowledge, and better instru ments for observation and investiga tion, they are patiently unraveling na lures secrets and learning how to turr her forces to human uses 1 cited S case of the unavoidable waste of cop per ore, of fuel and of human labor 1T the treatment of the oxidized coppe, ores of Arizona 20 years ago. Int men who were wasting acted upor their knowledge and skill. So now i; often happens that in response to the urgent call which modern society makes by fits and starts for enormous ly increased productiveness of various commodities, the demand can be me Cnly at expense of waste of nature: resources, of human energy, and ever of human life. If a more stable bal ance could be maintained between sup ply and demand; if the current of do mestic and economic life would rui more smoothly; if wealth were not ac cumulated so easily and spent so lav ishly; # those marvellous improve nents to which we have referred were not periodically made, which givt the irresistible impulses to worldwide human energy, thereby bringing abou these oscillations between hard time! and good times, between labor deartf and labor surplus: if all these dis turbing elements were obliterated, cer tajnly there would be less waste, ana possibly there would be more happi ness. But it is not our part nor within our power, as mining and metallurgi cal engineers, to reconstruct society o, renovate the world. Yet it is cur duty to continue using our best efforts whether the world recognizes our mer it's or not-to get the utmost energy out of human life as well as out of the inert material we handle-with the least possible exhaustion of human tissue and the smallest possible waste of mineral or vegetable material