Salt Lake Herald | 1908-05-24 | Page 10 | Conserving Our Resources

CONSERVING OUR RESOURCES The necessity for tor conserving Ameri meri merian i in an resources rt Is strikingly ly ed out In bs b Emerson Hough in a recent number f E K B Magazine Mr Ir irys Hough Houghs s vs ys 1 Ii It 1 fifty fy years we shan shall have whole wholes I I sas s a s as bro bare bre as a China China The Appa i li IL hlaus wl will ill be H stripped to t bedrock berock T Th f wilt will send sed down do n vast vat floods wt t h ft annot be controlled The Cana an forests north of the thE Great Lakis Laks Iak V jl b swept away ou Our west wi Wih i t be bt bare The Deta Deta will wH be bel l q apart a par because no levee leee will wi be bea bt a al ae ic to stand the floods or of those days das daysYe Ye We shall be living in crowded crowde concrete louses uses and at double o itie le rent we now OW 1 l la j We W of at steel teE use no wood on our farms farina We e shall ahall pay pa 10 cents for tor a a newspaper 60 iO O cents for tor a a magazine as ae much for or a lead pod peri I elL cIL Cotton will wl bo be Immensely higher po reef Beet will wl be the privilege f r the few Clothing will 1 cot COM o twice bl o hat it i costs today Like our children I will wi rake the soil soi for fuel tuel or forage forse or food We shall shan shiver In a cold and burn bur In a a heat heat never before felt tel In Inthis this temperate zone meant by God as asa asa asa a a comfortable c growing place for for splendid splendid splendid did human being b ln unless we wake up lP Now confidentially we are hardly pessimistic enough to believe beleve the pic pie picture ture tur painted by Mr MI Hough Hou h will wl ever be realized Certainly it I will wi not be realized within the memory of the of oC any child today Our resources are too vast to be ex ox exhausted exhausted hausted within the brief space sP e comparatively comparatively speaking of or a a half hair century or of ten times tm s fifty years for that matter mater So there Is If no occasion for immediate alarm Nobody need lose any great amount of sleep seep J over the matter mater The fact tact remains though that we have lave been wasteful W of our resources Our Oui mountain ranges have bave been de deluded denuded denuded of their timber and little effort at reforestation has bas ben made lumber has increased enormously In cot cost co t dur during ing the last l lest st decade and it I is certain certai to togo togo togo go higher during the next net ten years We have been wasteful too with wih our ranges They have been stripped of their vegetation and laid bare Our coal supply Is rapidly diminishing and ani tow few new fields felds are are re being opened The conference of ot governors unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented In our history that recently concluded Us Its Is sessions in II Washington cannot fall fail fai to be of ot Immense benefit to the conservation movement We e can cannot cannot cannot not afford aford to be b selfish Something must be loft left let for succeeding generations There Is enough for tor all al of ot us and to spare but there Is no justification for reckless wanton waste wast