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S. I lowe. Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ence. Cleveland. ( '. 



Society of American Foresters, 

 Pre-ident. ('.ifi'ord Pinchoi. \Ya-hiiiL;- 



ton, D. C. 



Transmississippi Commercial Con- 

 gress, President, J. 1'.. Case, Abilene, 

 [Cans. 



United Mine \Yorker> of America. 

 President. T. L. Lewis. Indianapolis. 

 Ind. 



I'pper Mi--i>sippi River Improve- 

 ment Association, President. Thomas 

 Wilkinson, Burlington. Iowa. 



In addition to the foregoing, invita- 

 tions have been extended to both 

 1 louses of Congress, to the President '> 

 Cabinet, and to the members of the 

 Supreme Court. 



As has been stated, the Conference 

 will hold its sesMon in the East Room 

 of the Executive Man-ion. The open- 

 ing -essioii will be held on May 13, 

 and the Conference will sit until the 

 evening of May I 5. 



Primarily the Conference will be be- 

 tween the Governors of the several 

 states and territories, with their re- 

 spective advisors; and in general, the 

 character of the discussions will be 

 determined wholly by the executives 

 present. 



In the interest of convenience, ses- 

 sions have been arranged : and merely 

 to bring before the conferees the lead- 

 ing facts relating to the natural re- 

 sources of the country, with the view 

 of directing discussion along the most 

 practical lines, provision has been 

 made for opening each session with 

 brief, formal statements. As ar- 

 ranged, the outline follows: 



May 13. 



10.00 a. in. Conservation 'i ? ;i National 

 Duty. Theodore- Ko< i-e\elt. President 

 of the United St.-n 

 j 30 p. in. Mineral Rc-ources: 



Ores and Related Minerals, Andrew 



Carneg 



Mineral Fuels, Dr. I. C. White. Pi 



sor of Geology, University <>t V. 



Virginia, and Stale Geologist of .'. 



Virginia. 



General discussion, op,-ned l>y Jo'm 



Mitchell, former President of the 



United Mine Workers of America. 



May 14. 



10.00 a. m. Land i: 



Soil, Professor T. C. Chamberlin. L 



versity <>i Chic State 



( ',i . ,\, ILJJM ( if \\ i-o 'ii-iii. i 



\ er-ity "f \\ i-d >n-in. and 



L'. S. dei il. laical Sur, 



Forests, 1\. \. \.< >ng, Presidi of i!ic 



Long I'.ell Lumber Ci'inpany. Ka; 



City. Miss, iuri. 



Public Health. Dr. C,e<>rmc M. K.' 



Dean of the Medical Departm. 



(",ei ir.uctuwn l"imer-ity. \\'a-hin.y 



D. C.. furnu-rly I're-idein nf the M 



cal Society "f "the Di-trict of C"lum!i!.i. 



-'.30 p. m. Land Re-mir. 



Reclamation liy Irrigation ami I")r ini- 

 a^e. 1 )r. < '< irge C. 1 'ard< . : ir 



( ii ivenn >r i if Calif' irnia. 



(raxing and Stock-rai-inu. Hon. J. A. 



Ja-tro. President of tin- American I 



Thf Public Land- and Land Teir 

 Jud.^e Joseph M. Carey, formerly 

 United Stale- Senator from Wy 

 ming. 



May 15. 



IO.OO a. m. Water Re-ource-: 



Tran-portatii n, Jame- J. Hill. Pre-i- 

 deiit of the Cireat Xorthern Railway. 

 Navigation, Prof c or l-'.mory K. John- 

 son, Professor of Transportation and 

 Commerce. University of Pennsylva- 

 nia: formerly Isthmian Canal Ctimini- 

 -ii iner. 



Water Power, II. S. Putnam. American 

 Institute of Klectrical Kn^in. 

 2.30 p. m. (icneral Di-cu--ii n. 



It >hoiild not be inferred that the 

 above outline cover- the entire range 

 of topic- to be discued at the Con- 

 ference. or that i!i-cn--ion will be con- 

 fined to the -nl'ject- mentioned in the 

 outline. It is a!-o t,> be understood 

 that there will b.- other pa]iers and a<l- 

 dresses besides th"-e mentioned in the 

 i nitline. 



The opening address by President 

 Ri"i-e\elt. \\lio will be chairman of 

 the Conference, \\ill -trike the keyn 



the meet'iig : and it i- planned to 

 have di>cussj( MIS. \\birh. while lolliw- 

 ing tl' -al line-, laid down in the 



onilire. will he broad em mgl 

 the entire field of coii-rr\ at ion of na- 

 tural i The fact is re- 



nixed that t' : for th- 



(' ce will be all tOO brief to p.-r- 



mit the thorough '" the 



