The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-08
CLIFFORD P|NCHOT
 SPEAKS IN ATLANT 4 He Says South Is Vitally Con- cerned in Conservation BIG WATER RESOURCES
  Louisiana Delegate to the Conservation Meeting Makes n Bitter Attack Upon New Nationalism of
 Colonel Roosevelt
BIG WATER RESOURCES

Atlanta, October 7.-Gifford Pinchot, at the initial meeting of the southern conservation congress, declared that the south is as vitally concerned with the movement for the conservation of the nations natural resources as is any section of the country and he warned the south erners that the big corpor- ations already were actively working to secure a monopoly of the resources of this section.
 Your water power resources here hands of the Duke interests and of the General Electric interests" he said, that it will be almost impossible for | independents to break into the water power market"
 MT. Pinchot was the principal speaker at today's session and was given an ovation by the 400 delegates. | A bitter attack on new national ism" by Amos L. Ponder of Louisiana was feature of the afternoon meet | ing He said this new theory of gov ernment would reduce sovereign states to mere prefectures" and that It's operation would mean the supplant- ing of a well organized government with unstable government such as we see in South and Central America. He said the apostles of this propaganda | stand for one set of principles in the east and another in the west. In New York 1t Is high tariff, in Iowa 1t is lower tariff In truth it means only | a struggle to sidestep the indignant wrath of an outraged people," 1 Dr. c. Willard Hayes, chief geologist of the United States government told of the great mineral wealth of the southeastern states. He laid special stress upon utilization because he re- | garded it as. nessential feature of any | form of practicable conservation. l TO conserve resources for future gen. erations at serious sacrifice of the Interests of the present generation" he said, ''is not only unwse, but it is wholly impracticabe and visionary. Another point which must be emphasized, which Is wholly ignored by many advocates of conservation is that conservation of our natural resources means immediate high cost of raw materials and consequently of finished products to the consumer" In impressing the delegates with the value of the south's mineral resources Mir Hayes pointed out the value and waste of beauXite, phosphate and coal of Georgia, Alabama and other states. He said that 70O,00O tons of beauxite had
 
 Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas since 1889 for manufacture. He pointed out that if this raw material could be manufac- tured at the point of mining the low grade ore could be utilized and the cost of mining greatly cheapened.
 By passing it through the first pro- cess said he, "a ton of beauxte ore having a value at the mine of $4 could be converted into products, metallic alum mum, alum and alundum, weighing only a fraction of ton, but having a value of from $50 to $175.'
 He gave other striking illustrations of the waste in valuable exhaustible min erals. due wholly to the distance be- tween point of production and point of utilization.
 Mir Pinchof said in part: Conservation ought to appeal more vigorously to the south than to any other part of the country. Some places in the west have larger field for conservation, but altogether there is no place where questions of conser- vation are more pressing than in the south. You have natural resources in the south in superabundance. You have a body of south ern men determined to carry conservation principles into prac- tical effect and their numbers. char acter and determination makes the out look for results most hopeful.
 Practical problems facing conser- vation." Pinchot enumerated, "is wa ter power forestry and erosim of soils" Of water power he remarked: Your water power resources here in the south are so completely in the hands of the Duke interests and of the General Electric interests that it will be almost impossible for independents to break into the water power mar ket."
 MT. Pinchot predicted, however, that ultimately water power rights will be distributed for the benefit of the en- tire population.