Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-31
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be conserved for domestic, industrial,
| transportation and power purposes.
A committee will be named late in
the day to draft bills to be submitted
to the next Legislature.
| Noted MeH Present
Among those present were Col.
Edgar Jadwin, United States engineer
in charge of the Pittsburgh district;
a number of State officials, water
a delegation of Pittsburghers inclue-
ing Morris Knowles, e. X. Morse,
John Il. Eichenaur and w. M. Jacoby,
of the Pittsburgh Flood Commission
Public Service Commissioner Magee,
former chairman of the Ohio and
Lake Erie Ship Canal board and w. H.
Stevenson, president of the Pitts
burgh Chamber of Commerce and its
present chairman; DR.. j. p. Kerr, of
Pittsburgh city council, and County
Commissioner A. c. Gumbert.
| Philadelphia and Scranton city
officials were also represented and the
discussion was along broad lines. DR..
Dixon, who was complimented by the
| Governor for his work in behalf OF
conservation of life and for his far
seeing departmental policy, was
chosen chairman by unanimous vote
and declared that the subject was one
which must be considered from the
/ SldnupOlnt Oh generations TO come.
The Governors Ideas
Governor Brumbaugh in his address
said that the Commonwealth will live
after those who are now active are
gone and that there must be an
economic basis reached upon which
to build for the future. The waters
of the State must be saved for the
life of the future, the agriculture and
the industries and provision must be
made now.
The Governor mentioned the work
of the Pittsburgh Flood Commission
saying that the floods which checked
industry in aggravated form in that
district affected Harrisburg and other
cities. He said it was the duty of the
hour to overcome the floods and make
the water work for mankind. Among
the suggestions given by the Cover
nor were:
Impounding of waters in reservoirs
at headwaters of streams as is pro-
posed by the Pittsburgh Flood Com
mission on the Allegheny and Monon-
! gahela.e
Increase of State forestry activity
which now has 100000 acres of
State forest.
| Increase of use of streams as
source of food supply.
Convert the menace of floods to
service by generation of power at the
natural resources are diminished.
For promotion of irrigation, notably
in mining regions.
Increase of transportation facilities
by means of waterways as adjuncts to
| the railroads so that raw materials
may be handled more cheaply and
productive capacity be enhanced.
| I'VE must plan now. We must see
things forty or fifty years ahead and
make provision for them. We must
think of the Pennsylvania of the fu-
ture," said the Governor.
The Importance of the States prob
lem, which affects the Susquehanna
materially as the great central water
way, was discussed by several men
who have given time and thought to
It.. r. A. Zentmyer,- chairman of the
State Water Supply Commission, out
lined what the State had done since
1905 when Samuel w. Pennypacker
brought about the commission. DR..
Dixon mentioned steps which had been
taken to keep the waters clean and
Forestry Commissioner Conklin pre-
sented the forestry end.
Morris Knowles, of the Pittsburgh
Flood Commission, went into detail
regarding the plans made for the
Ohio watershed so as to save the great
manufacturing district its annual
visitation and loss from floods. This
J project Is already familiar to Har-