Show NATIONAL I 1 INVENTORY N V WORK CUT OUT FOR NEWLY CREATED commission body of men under direction of pin chot to list resources of entire land and will compare re suits for good of all washington actuel work on the invent iven toi of the natural resources of the united states ins his begun under the direction of the national conserva tion commission it will mill be carriel on vigorously throughout the summer this Is necessary ebsary in older to enable the commission to make the report president roosevelt has requested of it foi fat january 1 1909 A meeting of 0 the chiefs of bureaus a of the ex executive eutie department has baen held and the heads of the ailous latious ill dl ismons Is lons concerned ith the count country rys a natural resources have offer offered bikit hearty co in the task the com commission mission has undertaken so now within only a few days moie than a month from the date the national con nation se commission was named by the president active walk Is going on in aery bureau of the government that can furnish material available tor for the commissions A great amount of this mate ilal al ready la is available in the government department other important parts of it however will mill be collected through special channels among mong these will be the state conservation commis blona which the governors are al ap pointing and some of the great na lional organizations that were cepro seated at the white house conference and that have entered with mith spirit into the general conservation movement in other words ord the machinery for making the first inventory of 0 the re sources of the nation ever attempted has been set net in motion and la Is running smoothly giffood pinchot chairman at lite he commission has changed III his a plans ans 4 and will mill return to Washl washington Til atou 6 ertly to continue personal supervision of 0 the work dy by biily pill fill the commission expects to have in hand sufficient matei material ial to begin the study of the stock of the count country rys s le sources and by b the middle of october it hopes to have the greatest pirt of this mate ilal tn in hand ihla ibis will be in cordei that the he full commission which h holds e ids its alist meting tuesday docent be ber r 1 in washington may take tahe up at once the of the facts that thi summers summer m at k has brought together one week viter liter th the commission will hold a joint meeting in M S ashington with mith the governors of the states or their representatives with nith a view ot of bringing about faither and chosei co 0 operation pe ration with the vailous state corn am missions the commis commission bion has demised a new and interesting method by which to collect this material A schedule ot of inquiries embracing the whole sub eject a of conservation mateis forests lands and minerals minei als lias haa been at ai ranged and sent to each bureau chief with a bequest for suggestion and criticisms criticism ilita has insulted lesul ted in ob the expert advice of the men at the head of the different bureaus who ho will mill have immediate chaice ot of the collection of tap material president roosevelt who mho is keeping la in close touch with tile the commission haq approved tilts this method and has hag written to each chief of bureau a letter commending the enthusiastic co operation shown by the budeau chiefs and emphasizing his belief in the great importance of the work the national conservation commission has in mind among the government bureaus that will mill furnish a itice 1 uge part of the im information the commission Is seeking are the beleau of corpora ions of the department of commerce comme ice and libor under commissioner iler her bert knox smith the buican of the census under director north the tor for est eat pervice under direct supervision talon of the chairman of the commission and overton W ailee pi tee secretary of the for eat section of the commission tho the reclamation lecla matlon service under director newall the geological survey under director smith the chips of engineers of the army under its ita new chief gen william 1 L marshall and almost evary bureau under the department of agriculture co operation cooperation among all tho the agencies now ow engaged in this inventory taking is a conspicuous feature taking the membership of the national commis slon sion and the several memberships of the state commissions together tho the nu number aber of persons engaged and interested in tho the work Is laige one of the most important Is therefore to make sule suie that every step of the Is ili known to all who are sharing in it so that hare may bo be tile tho utmost amount of coordination and concentin tion no misdirected on orgy and no duplication accordingly bulletins of pio giesa giess and information are issue to the cers of at the commissions the state corn com missions and others and abid a ous correspondence Is kelt up in ill this way tho the comp complo iv and scat cat as it is Is effect hely and simplified |