| Show OUSt HE H 11 IX Tho convention ot governors called b by the tho President to discuss questions connected tl with the ot of the natural resources of the tho country Is one OM ot of the greatest Importance Holt for tor oats mInerals o are lIte the ro re At onO one th they y were so that they vero consIdered In I Foresta welo cut down as a I nuisance No ono one thought 01 SItS ing InA trees treN boundless itoh the rich that It seamed In Incredible credible that It could oVer Im Thorn Thero In once rind to supply the tho do ot of nil nih the worM world Today Oday the tho question ot of economy conom Is paramount lest bat thin the futuro should brIng 01 disaster cr It Is claimed that Old orl i fOrum yield more mill many American farina and that nearly square miles ot of land Ian have gone out or Of In one onn year because the farm funn ors era found that the tho corell cereal I was being at tJ it lo loit On seine HOmo to former formerly er erI I ly good genii farms lire nero ot of wheat wheal In waH nut low its 1111 six bushels rho rhe Is retrograding riot nOt alone be because cause Its rIchest IngredIents are aro taken out nut by crops and nd not put 1111 back blek hut but through water The tho watersheds and an slopes been stripped ot oC restraIning trees rush to the semis liens carrying on their hot bol toms loan In bulk and In hell waters In not less leM than t two 10 bIllion tons ot of richest farm farni lands eAch ench year that stupendous loss los tho heaviest the farmers 11 are annually to in bear broar Dr V J leOlo or of the Inland Waterways the tho Situe ot of that tha wasted sell rut lit t 1 a ton nut aud lIS as conditions are more and iid more menacing every overy the tho thoO O of Il a ls I farm tann Ce Oan eari ml a burden Tt r a 11 Tet ta is an on which aM ut iL It Is 15 understood E a con M and s 11 Tk Was ot of lito lii In this thI jl t and aud b a 1 ft t on record that 1 b o 0 are Joel bet eel every year oar tx lis U In lIres anti and In TLe IL Ju pu iino r qc Ie are entIrely too many and 10 0 In December nl at Monon p W Va a the largest In of at the tho world with the sin Ile e ot of that At the tho In Prance Frune when whon l oo men lost th their tIel The number of oC vIctims In Inthe Inthe the horror was wa In excess of not a mIner In the tho pit escaping DurIng DuricK that same month 50 men were killed kIllel In the tho Dart mine lOIn In 32 Itt In the tho Naomi mIne In Inthe inthe the Mme simu state and 61 lit at Yolando Ala Anti the worst of at it II Is ha that ouch each horror con ClIn ho bo prevented It If common fore forethought thought Is exercised This Thill gives somo idea or at ho he Import alice anen or of the tho subjects with which this congress Is to deal I en It if nothing oloe elee Is III gained by Its delIberations than drawing public to tim tho noco sIW ellY of In thes expendIture ot of the tue publIc resources and the tho crIminality ty ot of tho unnecessary waste ot of tIe life It ItIs Is III not nUl In vain |
