Show WANT T STAT CONTROL CONTROLS CONTROLS' WESTERN S' S RESOURCES I SPOKANE E Wash Dec 23 A G.-A A general gen cn oral eral convention of state conservation advocates arl i is to be bc hold held in Spokane okane Si this wint winter r. r At that thal meeting delegates cl ates from every section t of the west will west will bo ho in invited in in- and the fight or organized o 0 to put the ta in saving of the tho forests forest water power powel coal and mind mining distl cf in the hands of the different stages instead of under tinder control of time the national government t o A call for forn n 11 meet mc ing has bias been i issued by hr a of the Spokane branch of the Ameri American Amerian nn min mining n congress which states The residents of the thc western states state have been a asked to their forest for for- or est st not alone to the tue federal control but all revenue th to the federal led fed eral r rai 1 treasury and anel now in pay grazing gracing charges on public lands Jand which havo n been free for the th u ISI of nf the pioneer heretofore from froni the foundation of our government Jo ram t. t Wit Without hout consulting the in interest st or wishes of the residents resident of ther thise e states s it is now proposed to withdraw the water powers and to raise rah e the price ou on IU th the coa coal lands U It Ii It tho tim revenues rC of these thc c resources and their the T control mire Ire to t bo be withheld w from front the resi residents ent of of the tho states in which tho they exist the previous benign of the U United States StateR government will 1 havo o changed ch ll C to one one which will H ago O th the pioneer will develop develop- mont anti and forever put putt the tho Rock Rocky mountains moun talus rind antI Pacific states under r a bea heavy handicap |