Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-03-14 | Page 16 | Take Care of the Natural Resources.

TAKi lAl CAKE OAHE OP TIlE THE NATURAL fJ RESOURCES Senator Smoot has been interviewed about the tho necessity of ot conserving tho the natural resources of the countr country The New York Sun of March 7 quotes him himas as saying Natural tural resources the foundation of ot our prosperity are not limitless nor will J they themselves There 11 It tj a on orio U them cm whoso whose ld r to not certainly bo be destroyed b by mums misuse Tho The minerals onca gone arc gone forever the soils may bo be or Impo impoverished by wrong methods of ot culture and at the tho best arc are capable of ot Producing producing pro Pro- a n. certain volume of food tood but no moro more the waters necessary to life liCe and health ens easy avenues of or commerce com corn merce meree invaluable sources of ot power tho the life of or tho the barren soils son may and do become under misuse polluted un- un navigable and destructive e tho the forests whose protective o influence so largely controls the habitability of or the land tho the regimen of the living waters and whoso whose supplies of wood are indispensable indispensable sable s. in iii any form of or civilization which wo we can conceive ma may be and have been so EO rashly cleared and mishandled mis handled that the they cease to act net as custodians of or the soil and of mols- mols turo tune and withhold their store storo of tim tim- ber her p Tho The nation nation and and the world world will will I l long ong thank President Roosevelt elt for his hit a activity in tho direction of saving sa the i ar r of tho American continent 4 And It Is for tol this and arid all l later ater ages that the tho President secured the help of t men so competent as Senator Son Sen a ator tor Smoot and his associates on the tho I c commission Nature was very er prodigal in its en endowment endowment of America Tho riches d by tho the thoughtless method of or Americans But Americans Amen Ameri cans are aro prudent and thrifty and when their attention Is called to errors er or- rora they correct them And because of ot- ot the tho work o of this commission to together together to- to gether with Ith tho the movements that have grown out of ot It tho the resources resource of ot the American n continent will never bo ho d de do- J