The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-02

agriculture than worrying their heads
IaboUt the purely local affairs OF the
far western states and chasing native
born white men OFF the grass.
The shallow inconsistency of the
conservation faddists and the one
that defeats and exposes their SINGER
iity, is their inclination to deprive the
public land states, not only of the con-
troll of their natural sovereign consti-
tutional rights to their own resources,
but to turn the governments trustee
ownership of our lands Into a perma-
nent ownership ind a source of rev.
enue to the older states at the ex-
pense of the progress of the pioneer
commemorative of the far west. Many
Of these treasures of nature were EVIL
IDENTIFY provided to supply the temper
airy demands of a crude human I'M
Iderstanding In his splendid but
somewhat biased review of the nat
ural resources of the United States,
Mr.. Charles r. Van Hise, acknowl-
edged in a closing chapter that 1.-THE
most daring speculation that / might
make as to human achievement,
would be poor and futile as compared
with future realizations." AS a mat
ter of fact the average mature human
mind is yet in an infantle stage of
development in regard to the possibil-
tiles Of physical and chemical science.
| read a press dispatch the other
day that recited as fact that a citi-
zen of New York maintained a plain
ly audible telephone conversation with
another citizen at the opposite side of
the North American continent in San
Francisco with no other connecting
sound medium but the eternal ether
While visiting Chicago year ago
/ enjoyed the courtesy of luncheon
at the Sherman house with a promin-
ent, high salaried practical chemist
who told me story of watching the
laboratory experiments of fellow
chemist, who, with a few grains of a
certain mineral substance that cost
two cents to produce, transformed
gallon of distilled water into a gallon
Of liquid fuel, equal If not superior, to |
the best gallon of gasoline ever pro-
luced from crude hydro carbon oil.
You, of course, will believe the first |
Of these little miracle stories, and can |
1ot prove that the second does not |
contain the element of possibility as
he atmosphere you breathe contains
he potention element of the most ex-
Dlosive gas known.
1t isn't over a dozen years since or
sanized common sense taught the far
ner that it wasn't necessary to import
soda nitrate from Chile at 20 cents a
pound with which to fertilize his soil,
rs he could produce the nitrogen in
he soil from the air with handful
Of clover seed and a little intelligent
cultivation for a cent pound, with |
The assistance of an invisible bacter-
al bug, and it is possible that with
The necessary encouragement this lit
lie microbe might be induced, with
culture medium of cheap cost, to put
the nitrates in sack and save all the
worry over a water power source of |
supply.
The many advances in the produc-
ton of light and heat that have been
made in the last few decades from
other things than coal and crude oil,
a big field for further scien-
life research and study, and will I'M
overcome and supply
rom crude primary elements of air,
water and earth, when necessity de-
Ielops many of the things of nature