The Daily Missoulian., 1909-01-23

tion of our natural resources, and to
cooperate with other bodies created
for similar purposes by the states.
The executive committee designated
in your letter creating the commission
| organized on June 19 and outlined a
plan for making inventory Of the nat
ural resources of the United States.
On July 1 work was undertaken, ac-
cordingly with the cooperation of
the bureaus of the federal depart
ments, authorities of the different
states, and representative bodies of
the national industries. The results
Of this cooperative work are here
with submitted as appendices of the
commissions report.
The mass of material which consti-
tutes the inventory has been summar-
lied under the direction of the secre-
taries of the respective sections of the
commission so as to assemble the
most salient points of the inventory.
At the first general meeting of the
commission, on December /, 1908, the
summaries Of the four sections of the
commission were presented and were
supplemented by personal statements
VI lilC eSpcftS III lne several DuTSd
in the executive departments who had
immediate charge of the inventory
along their special lines of work
After the discussion of the summaries
and statements the commission united
in the report which is herewith SUBJ
mitted
In view of the peculiar valuable con-
tributions and services rendered by
the experts of the several departments
the commission at its. closing session,
unanimously adopted the following
resolutions:
Whereas, the commission, in charge
of the duties committed to it, has been
greatly aided by the patient labors
and the ability and zeal of it's secre-
tary and the secretary of each of it's
four sections, and of the experts in
the government service who lent their
assistance in the collection of statis-
tical and other data necessary to the
elucldation and proper understanding
of the subjects dealt with, and to the
preparation of its report; therefore
Resolved, That the commission here
by makes cordial acknowledgment of
its obligation to the gentlemen re-
ferred to and tender them it's thanks.
Resolved, further, That the secre-
tary of the commission be directed to
transmit to each of those who pre-
pared papers and who appeared be-
fore the commission a copy of these
resolutions.
In addition, | desire to call your
special attention to the spirit and de-
Yotion of the gentlemen without
whose services the making of the ma
tlonal inventory would have been i'm
possible. Through their great interest
in the task intrusted by you to the
commission and to them a great part
of their work in connection with the
inventory was performed outside of
the usual hours. Furthermore, the
material which they have prepared
presents valuable information in con-
nection with the work of the several
executive departments which other
wise would not have been collected at
this time. The assembling of this
vast amount of material is largely
due to Henry Gannett, whom you des-
ignated for this work, and to whose
expert knowledge and power of gen.
eralization the commission owes more
than it can repay.
In it's cooperation with other
bodies created for similar purposes by
the states" the national conservation
commission has had most valuable as