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The auto now permits use of sites which a decade ago would have been 
inaccessible backwoods retreats. Our ideal is a chain of state parks, de- 
picting the great natural beauty and physical features of the state, con- 
nected by a state parkway. A trip over this road would show virgin tracts 
of timber, broad open prairies, the Ohio valley, the magnificent beech woods 
of Southern Indiana, the lakes of the north and the great mining and 
quarrying districts—a gallery wherein are displayed the natural resources 
and beauties of Hoosierdom. 
The Division of Lands and Waters is charged with investigation of cases 
of stream pollution. Our rapid industrial development has greatly increased 
the pollution by industrial waste, until the situation has become acute in 
many localities. The question is entirely economic and requires earnest co- 
operation between public, state and commercial interests. A campaign of 
relentless prosecution cannot succeed. It is the policy of the department 
to seek out cases of pollution and work with the offender to remedy the sit- 
uation. Of course where reciprocity is lacking, the offender is prosecuted. 
The whole problem is very complex and requires the combined work of 
biologists, chemists, and engineers. The Department of Conservation is 
the logical clearing house for pollution matters, for developing co-operation 
among industries concerned, so the findings of the scientists may be made 
available. Much waste material may be reclaimed in profitable’ by- 
products; in some cases the disposal means increased cost in production of 
the original article, in any case the value of any waste product is its 
commercial value, when properly recovered, plus the amount of loss it 
occasions when unrecovered. 
An almost untouched field is the regulation of the removal of sand, 
gravel, coal and marl from lake and stream beds. The drainage situation in 
the north must have exhaustive study. 
The Division is an infant with enormous possibilities for growth. The 
duties bestowed upon it by the conservation law are numerous and far 
reaching. Our ideal is the establishment of a system of state parks— 
“public estates’, where money spent in development will be profitably in- 
vested but where the chief return is in pleasure, happiness, and vitality, the 
value of which it is impossible to estimate; streams, which are clean and 
wholesome and abound in fish for the angler, furnish beauty to the tourist 
and healthful water to the cities: streams and lakes which have not given 
up their beauty and utility needlessly to the dredge: in brief the control of 
the lands and waters of the state to the end that they may serve their most 
desirable, useful and economical purpose with the greatest possible profit 
and pleasure to Hoosiers. 
DIVISION OF FISH AND GAME. 
GEORGE N. MANNFELD. 
History and observation compel us to believe that conservation is more 
professed than practiced; that much that assumes the name and passes as 
