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classes of water resources, forest resources, 

 trees of tlio land, ami mineral resources. 

 1 am asking the menihers of the Inland 

 Waterways Commission to form the Section 

 of Waters of the Xational 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 F. 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. Overtoil W. Price, Forest Service, sec- 

 retary. 



LANDS 



Senator Knute Nelson. Minnesota, chair- 

 man. 



Senator Francis F. Warren, Wyoming. 



Hon. John 'Sharp Williams. Mississippi. 



Hon. Swagar Sherley, Kentucky. 



Hon. Herbert Parsons, Xew York. 



F.\-("iovernor X. P.. P.roward, Florida. 



Mr. James J. Hill. Minnesota. 



Ex-Governor George C. 1'anlee, Cali- 

 fornia. 



Mr. Charles McDonald. Am. Society of 

 Civil Engineers, Xew York. 



Mr. Murdo Mackenzie, Colorado 



Mr Frank C. Goudy, Colorado. 



Mr. George W. \\oodruff, In' I'-part- 



nii-nt, secretary. 



MINERALS 



Hon. John Dalzell, lVnn-\ hania, chair- 

 man. 



Senator Joseph M. Dixon, Montana. 



Senator Frank P. Flint, California. 



Senator Lee S. Overman, Xorth Carolina. 



Hon. 1'hilo Hall, South Dakota. 



Hon. James L. Slayden, Texas. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Xew York. 



Pn.f. 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 br 

 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 threat. 

 Our object is to conserve the foundations 

 of our prosperity. We intend to use these 

 resources; but so to u~e them as to conserve 

 them. Xo effort should be made to limit 

 the wise and proper development and appli- 

 cation of these resources; every effort <h 

 be made to prevent destruction, to reduce 

 \\aste. and to distribute the enjoymeir. of 

 natural wealth in Mich a way a- ID pro- 

 mote the greatest MODI! of the greatest num- 

 ber for the longest time. 



The Commission must keep in mind the 

 further fact that all the natural resource-, arc 

 that their use may be. and should 

 be. coordinated. Thus, the developnii nt of 

 water transportation, which requires less 

 iron and 1 1 than rail transportation. 



\\ill reduce the draft on mineral res 

 the judicious development of forcMs will 

 not only supply fuel and structural material 



