NEW COMMISSION AT WORK 



Permanent Organization Completed at Chicago Corrected Member^ 

 ship of the Commission First Work Now Under Way 



OVERSHADOWED, in the pre- 

 dispatches, to a considerable de- 

 gree by the news of a great 

 national political convention being held 

 at the same time, the executive com- 

 mittee of the Xati-'iial Conservation 

 Commission met in Chicago on June 

 19 and perfected its organization. Tin- 

 first work '!" the ( "ommission that of 

 taking an inventory of the Xat ion's 

 natural resources has already been 

 put under way, and a report, to be 

 presented at the meeting to be held in 

 Washington next December, will be 

 made from the findings of this "in- 

 voicing" committee. 



As finally organized, the member-hip 

 of the new ('ommissjon follows: 



WATERS 



Hon. Theodore E. Burton, Ohio, 

 chairman. 



Senator Francis (i. Newlands. Ne- 

 vada. 



Senator William 15. Allison, Iowa. 



Senator William Warner. Missouri. 



Senator John H. Bank-head, Ala- 

 bama. 



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

 secretary. 



Mr. F. H. Newell, Reclamation 

 Service. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Forest Service. 



-Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, Bureau of 

 Corporations. 



Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana. 



Prof. George F. Swain, Institute of 

 Technology, Massachusetts. 



Brig. Gen. William L. Marshall, 

 chief of engineers, U. S. Army. 



FORESTS 



Senator Reed Smoot, Utah, chair- 

 man. 



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Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana. 



Senator Charles A. Culberson, Texas. 



Hon. Charles F. Scott, Kansas. 



Flon. Champ Clark, Missouri. 



Mr. J. B. White. Missouri. 



Prof. Henry S. Graves, Yale Forest 

 School, Connecticut. 



Mr. William Irvine, Wisomsin. 



Ex-Governor Newton C. Blanchard, 

 I .( 'uisiuiia. 



Mr. Charles L. Pack, New Jersey. 



Mr. Gtistav Schwab, National Coun- 

 cil of Commerce, Neu York. 



Mr. ( h'erton W. Price, Forest Serv- 

 ice, secretary. 



LANDS 



Senator Knute Nelson, Minnesota, 

 chairman. 



Senator Francis F. Warren, Wyo- 

 ming. 



lion. Swagar Sherlcy, Kentucky. 



lion Herbert Parsons, New York. 



F.x-< M.veriior N. B. Broward. 

 Florida. 



Mr. James J. Hill, Minnesota. 



F.\-( iovernor George C. Pardee, Cal- 

 ifornia. 



Mr. Charles Macdonald, Am. Society 

 of Civil Engineers. New York. 



Mr. Murdo Mackenzie, Colorado. 



Dr. T. C. Chamberlin, University of 

 Chicago. 



Mr. Frank C. Goudy, Colorado. 



Mr. George W. Woodruff, Interior 

 Department, secretary. 



MINERALS 



Hon. John Dalzell, Pennsylvania, 

 chairman. 



Senator Joseph M. Dixon, Montana. 



Senator Frank P. Flint, California. 



Senator Lee S. Overman, North Car- 

 olina. 



