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CONSERVATION 



I do not touch upon the great fields 

 in Wyoming and other mountain states, 

 as these fields have not yet been thor- 

 oughly surveyed, and these coals can 

 hardly come to eastern market-. 



There is another most important 

 phase of the coal question that has here- 

 tofore received all too little attention, 

 and that is the reckless and wasteful 

 way mining in all fields is carried on. 

 Under present methods only from two- 



thirds to three- fourths of the coal is 

 taken out. The rest is left in the niyies 

 as pillars, or otherwise. From twenty 

 to forty cents a ton more, while the field 

 is being worked, would save practically 

 all the coal. But for manifest reasons 

 this cannot be done in one field alone. 

 Legislation is required to stop this 

 waste of a substance without which 

 man cannot live. And the legislation 

 must come from many states at the 

 same time, or from the I'nitcd States. 



THE EFFECTS OF EROSION 

 Denuded and Washed-out Slope in Western North Carolina 



