The Washington times., 1925-08-20
VIE WE'D
AS MONSTER
FACTORY
Interior Busy Ever Turning
Out New Resources to
Supply Population
BY ROBERT s., THORNBURGH

Dy AeUDLnA Cs3 AAAOANANA1@ ANNAA
Never until Old Mother Earth is
dead and cold, like the moon, will
the natural resources upon which
civilization is built become ex-
hausfed, according to William
Bowie, of the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey.
Down in the heart of the earth
there lies a gigantic laboratory year
in and year out manufacturing
coal, oil, gas. gold. iron and the
countless other resources that FUR.
nisls the power which makes the
world 90 round,
Government scientists do not
know whether regeneration Of min
erals Is as fast ais its removal from
the earth, however. Only the count
less generations to come will prove
this point, but it is the opinion Of
the scientists that newer and more
scientific processes of employment
of the natural resources will ex-
tend their use in sufficient guam
titles during the few more billion
years that they will be needed.
Sources TO Change
Sources of raw materials will not
be found in the same geographical
ANf~NAA-OAA5
Bowie pointed out. Coal, for lii.
stance, instead Of being mined in
West Virginia, may appear on a
new continent that is expected to
arise out of either the Atlantic or
the Pacific Ocean,
Asphalt may be found in the
Canadian Northwest instead Of in
the Andes of South America. The
mineral resources Of the Ruhr ex-
hausted, these iron deposits may re-
appear in the heart of China.
Bowie said that new mineral de-
posits are constantly forming, part
~ as the result of compression on
certain parts of the earth. Noun
tain ranges are continually wearing
away by the action of vast guam.
titles Of falling rain, the sediment
being carried to the mouths of the
big rivers.
Wears Away Slowly
The area covered by the United
States is wearing away about a foot
every 10000 years, the Geodetic
Survey estimates. The Appalachian
mountains, among the old ranges
OF the world. worn smooth by the
ages of weather action, finally will
disappear, as did their predecessors,
the Devonian mountains, now far
below sea-level in the Atlantic.
IT Is expected that in ages to
come the territory where now lies
the Emitted States may be a vast
ocean, and that other areas will be
replaced by water. the population
gradually moving on to new conti-
nents now in the process of forma-
ton where the seas are washing
The Atlantic coast line, 1t was
pointed out, is gradually wearing
away from the force of the sea.
Other oceans throughout the world
are, eating at the land areas in the
natural process of shifting of earth
to water and sea to land.
Once the Mississippi valley was
a vast mountani range, surrounded
by fertile. animal-inhabited plains
and forests, where now exist the
Rockies and the Appalachian
ranges. A billion years or more,
perhaps, has been required to bring.
this typographical change
billion will pass before the earth
goes back to the beginning and
starts all over again.
QuaI1es Give Proof
Earthquakes were described as
an incident, a proof of these monu-
mental changes IN the conTlguraI1on
of Mother Earth-the shocks, the
birth agonies of the creation of new
of new continents and
new deposits of minerals of vast
value.
THE earth is a solid globe, 5000
miles in diameter" Bowie said, up
setting the oldtime theory of the
internal fires.
ut has no liquid interior, with
volcanoes as chimneys. 1t is sub
jected to great strains as result
of the erosion of materials from the
land and their piling up at the
mouths of rivers.
Earthquakes occur daily, though
most of them can only be detected
by the seismograph."