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classes of water resources, forest resources, 

 resources of the land, and mineral resources. 

 I am asking the members of the Inland 

 Waterways Commission to form the Section 

 of Waters of the National Conservation 

 Commission. In view of the lateness of the 

 season and the difficulty of assembling the 

 members of the sections at this time, a 

 chairman and a secretary for each section 

 have been designated, and the chairmen and 

 secretaries of the sections will act as the 

 executive committee, with a chairman who 

 will also be chairman of the entire Commis- 

 sion. I earnestly hope that you will consent 

 to act as a member of the Commission, in 

 common with the following gentlemen : 



WATERS 



Hon. Theodore E. Burton, Ohio, chairman. 



Senator William B. Allison, Iowa. 



Senator Francis G. Newlands, Nevada. 



Senator William Warner, Missouri. 



Senator John H. Bankhead, Alabama. 



Mr. W J McGee, Bureau of Soils, secre- 

 tary. 



Mr. F. H. Newell, Reclamation Service. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Forest Service. 



Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, Bureau of Cor- 

 porations. 



Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana. 



Prof. George F. Swain, Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Massachusetts. 



The chief of engineers, U. S. Army. 



FORESTS 



Senator Reed Smoot, Utah, chairman. 



Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana. 



Senator Charles A. Culberson, Texas. 



Hon. Charles F. Scott, Kansas. 



Hon. Champ Clark, Missouri. 



Prof. I. C. White, State Geologist, West 

 Virginia. 



Prof. Henry S. Graves, Yale Forest 

 School, Connecticut. 



Mr. William Irvine, Wisconsin. 



Ex-Governor Newton C. Blanchard, Louis- 

 iana. 



Mr. Charles L. Pack, New Jersey. 



Mr. Gustav Schwab, National Council of 

 Commerce, New York. 



Mr. Overton W. Price, Forest Service, sec- 

 retary. 



LANDS 



Senator Knute Nelson, Minnesota, chair- 

 man. 



Senator Francis E. Warren, Wyoming. 



Hon. John Sharp Williams, Mississippi. 



Hon. Swagar Sherley, Kentucky. 



Hon. Herbert Parsons, New York. 



Ex-Governor N. B. Broward, Florida. 



Mr. James J. Hill, Minnesota. 



Ex-Governor George C. Pardee, Cali- 

 fornia. 



Mr. Charles McDonald, Am. Society of 

 Civil Engineers, New York. 



Mr. Murdo Mackenzie, Colorado. 



Mr. Frank C. Goudy, Colorado. 

 Mr. George W. Woodruff, Interior Depart- 

 ment, secretary. 



MINERALS 



Hon. John Dalzell, Pennsylvania, chair- 

 man. 



Senator Joseph M. Dixon, Montana. 

 Senator Frank P. Flint, California. 

 Senator Lee S. Overman, North Carolina. 

 Hon. Philo Hall, South Dakota. 

 Hon. James L. Slayden, Texas. 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie, New York. 

 Prof. Charles R. Van Hise, Wisconsin. 

 Mr. John Mitchell, Illinois. 

 Mr. John Hays Hammond, Massachusetts. 

 Dr. Irving Fisher, Yale University, Conn. 

 Mr. Joseph A. Holmes, Geological Survey, 

 secretary. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, chairman. 



Hon. Theodore E. Burton. 



Senator Reed Smoot. 



Senator Knute Nelson. 



Hon. John Dalzell. 



Mr. W J McGee. 



Mr. Overton W. Price. 



Mr. G. W. Woodruff. 



Mr. Joseph A. Holmes. 



One of the principal objects of the Fed- 

 eral Commission on the Conservation of 

 Natural Resources will be to cooperate with 

 corresponding commissions or other agencies 

 appointed on behalf of the states, and it is 

 hoped that the Governors and their ap- 

 pointees will join with the Federal Commis- 

 sion in working out and developing a plan 

 whereby the needs of the nation as a whole 

 and of each state and territory may be 

 equitably met. 



The work of the Commission should be 

 conditioned upon keeping ever in mind the 

 great fact that the life of the nation de- 

 pends absolutely on the material resources, 

 which have already made the Nation great. 

 Our object is to conserve the foundations 

 of our prosperity. We intend to use these 

 resources ; but so to use them as to conserve 

 them. No effort should be made to limit 

 the wise and proper development and appli- 

 cation of these resources ; every effort should 

 be made to prevent destruction, to reduce 

 waste, and to distribute the enjoyment of 

 our natural wealth in such a way as to pro- 

 mote the greatest good of the greatest num- 

 ber for the longest time. 



The Commission must keep in mind the 

 further fact that all the natural resources are 

 so related that their use may be, and should 

 be, coordinated. Thus, the development of 

 water transportation, which requires less 

 iron and less coal than rail transportation, 

 will reduce the draft on mineral resources ; 

 the judicious development of forests will 

 not only supply fuel and structural material 



