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CONSERVATION 



one thing should be a commission to lay 

 general foundations for future appropriations 

 as to the further purchase of national forest 

 lands, the development of mineral resources 

 in the public lands, the protection of soils, 

 as well as to digging channels and building 

 dams. 



If that can be accomplished and there is 

 a tarnel sight more chance of it than of 

 getting any billion-dollar bond issue then 

 there is some hope for the whole cause of 

 conservation. Somebody ought to send out a 

 farmers' bulletin on the need of getting to- 

 gether. Washington Times. 



Colorado Conservation Commission 

 Resolutions 



Among the resolutions passed by the Col- 

 orado Conservation Commission at its recent 

 meeting were the following: 



A resolution expressing the intention of the 

 Commission to cooperate with the state and 

 Nation in every proper conservation effort, 

 in which monopoly was guarded against and 

 the law respected. 



A resolution indorsing the general con- 

 servation policy of the Government and urg- 

 ing other states to cooperate in the work. 



A resolution advising the Government to 

 limit the time of its franchises for water- 

 power on the public domain. 



A resolution favoring legislation to pre- 

 vent mineral lands being obtained under the 

 guise of agricultural land. 



A resolution favoring legislation encourag- 

 ing bona fide irrigation enterprises. 



A resolution favoring more stringent game 

 laws. 



A resolution favoring the plan of taxing 

 timbered land on its value outside of the 

 trees on it, and favoring the exemption from 

 taxation of all land up to ten acres which 

 any settler plants in new trees. 



A resolution favoring the cooperation of 

 the state with the Federal Government in 

 protecting the forests from fire and depre- 

 dation. 



A resolution favoring the sale of matured 

 timber on forest reserves to settlers needing 

 it for local consumption. 



Japanese Visitors in America 



The party of honorary commercial com- 

 missioners of Japan, a large and distin- 

 guished body composed of noblemen, captains 

 of industry, educators, agriculturalists, finan- 

 ciers, lawmakers, and men prominent in the 

 affairs of the empire, now touring the United 

 States, met with a distinguished reception 

 in Spokane. 



Baron Shibusawa said: "Often we have 

 traveled in England and Europe, and in the 

 smoky cities we have seen signs, 'English 

 spoken.' To-day in your beautiful city we 

 have seen 'Japanese Spokane.' * * * 



"You have spoken in warm terms of our 

 progress, but you have not mentioned the 

 fact that we owe it all to America. If it had 

 not been for America for Commodore 

 Perry we would not to-day have been able 

 to boast of the progress of which we have 

 been so proud. 



"You are citizens of the inland empire of 

 the West, while we are of the island empire 

 of the East; I have heard that Spokane 

 means 'sons of the sun/ while our nation, 

 too, claims descent from the goddess of the 

 sun, so that our two peoples would, after 

 all, seem to be really one." 



Mr. Poindexter was cheered to the echo 

 in closing his remarks with the declaration 

 that the wealth of forest and water on the 

 mountain slopes belongs to the people, and 

 should be protected for their benefit. 



Jinie Nishimura, member of parliament and 

 president of the Kyoto Chamber of Com- 

 merce, who has started transportation proj - 

 ects with capital aggregating $500,000,000, 

 headed a party of bankers and experts on a 

 visit to the Washington Water-power Com- 

 pany's wprks, and they expressed keen in- 

 terest in the machinery and turbines. The 

 falls of the Spokane River, where thousands 

 of horsepower electrical energy is generated, 

 also proved a source of interest. 



Waterways Meetings 



Waterways meetings abound. On Oc- 

 tober 7 the Upper Mississippi River Im- 

 provement Association closed its eighth an- 

 nual copvention in Winona, Minn. 



On October 7 the Good Roads and 

 Waterways Conventions called by Governor 

 H. H. Hadley, of Missouri, met in Sedalia, 

 of that state. 



On October 14-15 the Ohio Valley Im- 

 provement Association met in Cincinnati. 

 Ohio. 



On October 21-23 the fifth annual conven- 

 tion of the Interstate Inland Waterways 

 League was held at Corpus Christi, Tex. 



On October 29-30, and November 1-2, the 

 Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways Associa 

 tion will meet at New Orleans. 



On November 10-11 a waterways meeting 

 will be held at Fort Wayne, Ind., to promote 

 the Toledo, Fort Wayne and Chicago Deep 

 Waterway project designed to construct a 

 ship canal connecting Lake Erie and Lake 

 Michigan by way of the Maumee River and 

 Fort Wayne. 



On November 15-16 the Mississippi-Atlantic 

 Inland Waterways Association will meet at 

 Jacksonville, Fla. 



On November 17-20 the Atlantic Deep 

 Waterways Association will hold its second 

 annual convention at Norfolk, Va. 



Meanwhile the American Waterways Com- 

 mission, with Senator Burton, chairman, is 

 touring Europe studying the inland water- 

 ways question. 



