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Show CONSERVATION IN UTAH. The movement started several years ago by President Roosevelt looking to the conservation of the natural resources of the United States has taken practical form in Utah.' Governor William Spry has appointed a commission to gather data concerning con-cerning the resources of the state in pursuance to an enactment of the legislature of last winter. It is true that during the administration of Governor Cutler a commission was appointed to do the same thing, at the request of the President, but this commission acted without warrant of law, and what facts were collected, though of undoubted value, were necessarily limited to those things which came under the observation of the members acting without with-out any prescribed duties and without definite purpose. pur-pose. The law passed at the last session of the legislature leg-islature makes it the duty of the Utah commission to co-operate with the national conservation commission com-mission and with similar state commissions in an effort to conserve the natural resources. Data and statistics relative to the state's resources will be collected and published for the information of the public and for the use of future legislatures in the enactment of laws for the protection and conservation conserva-tion of the resources of the state. In a new country, in a country with the vast undeveloped riches in mines, oil and almost unlimited un-limited arid lands which may be brought under cultivation cul-tivation by irrigation or by the dry farming process, pro-cess, such a commission can provide data which will be of inestimable value in future years in the effort to preserve to posterity some of the abundant resources re-sources which make Utah the state of opportunities. The gentlemen appointed by the governor to serve on the commission are Dr. Joseph F. Merrill of Salt Lake, Dr. J. A. Widtsoe of Logan, O. J. Salisbury Salis-bury of Salt Lake, Le Roy Armstrong of Salt Lake. George Austin of Salt Lake, and, Thomas L. Allen of Coalville, who serve without remuneration. The personnel of the commission is a guarantee that the important task to which they will devote their attention will be thoroughly handled, and their conclusions con-clusions and recommendations will be given, the consideration which they deserve. |