El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-07

house, which has no waste. 1t is not
the fault Of conservation that there
are extremes in combinations, result
ing in trusts and mOnopolies. They
are practicing conservation in the ex-
treme in saving of raw material oy
greater utilization, and by the dfscov-
cry Of new uses for by products The
Standard Oil company is another ex-
ample of the very fineness Of division
and subdivision of by products. which
find a place in therapeutics. in the arts,
and in seveline, paints, dyes and
hundred other valuable chemical pro-
ducts. This is conservation
Misunderstanding. :
"The expression, Conservation OF ma
tional resources is not everywhere IN
derstood in its broadcast sense; think
that to some minds it conveys only the
narrow idea of the withdrawal from
sources" said ". ". Finley, presidents
of the Southern Railway.
In some cases it may involve
measure of present self-denia1, as when.
In the case of an owner of forest lands,
It impels him to cut only the matured
timber and leave standing immature
trees that have no present market
value but, in that case, it leaves him
with an asset which increases in value
with each years growth Of the stand
ing timber.
Notwithstanding the wonderful in
dustrial development of the south since
1880, it is still prominently an agri-
cultural section. It is a section, there
fore, in which the conservation of the
soil is of the highest Importance.
Under continuous use, with proper
rotation and intelligent use of fertili-
GERS soil productivity can be largely
, ular interest to the south, because with
have an ideal region for soil conserva-
tion through crop rotation and inten-
sive farming
Conserving Raw Material.
Other things being equal, the con-
sentative use of raw material, what
ever 1t may be, consists in its manu-
facture, in the locality Of production.
through all the stages of preparation
for the final consumer. Manufacture
ing in the south has reached its pres
ent growth and is being still further
developed on the basis of this kind of
! conservation of raw material. But q
large proportion of the southern cot
! ton mill products, lumber, pig iron and
| other commodities. advanced through
I the first stages of manufacture, are
still shipped out of the south to serve
! as the raw materials or industries IN
| other localities. This is a waste OF
! energy, which, under ideal conditions
| of conservation, could be avoided
One OF the most valuable of the nat
| nral resources of the south is its tim
Der. 1t is obvious that if southern
| wood working industries are to survive
| and are to be handed down to future
! generations, immediate and effective
steps should be taken for the conser-
walton of southern forests.
] Tax on Waste.
| Il would suggest their consideration
| of whether it might not be possible tC
| devise a system of taxation that would
differentiate between timber lands SO
| managed as to insure the perpetuatiOn
| of a great national resource and those
| so managed as to hasten its exhaustion
l would also suggest the enactment
of proper fire laws and the establish
| ment of an efficient patrol 1 would
also suggest consideration of the prac-
ticability of encouraging the planting
! of trees on lands Of little or no agricul-
tural use.
The railroads are interested in con
servation of soil, forests. etc, because
it means among other things prosper