NOTE. 



The plea for constructive policies contained in the report of the 

 Secretary of the Interior to the President deserves a hearing also by 

 the engineers and business men who are developing the power re- 

 sources of the country. The largest conservation for the future can 

 come only through the wisest engineering of the present. 



The conditions under which the utilization of natural resources is de- 

 manded are outlined by Secretary Lane, and it will be noted that the 

 program recommended calls for the cooperation of engineer and 

 legislator. To bring this power inventory to the attention of the 

 men who furnish the Nation with its coal and oil and electricity, 

 this extract from the administrative report of the Secretary of the 

 Interior is reprinted as a bulletin of the United States Geological 

 Survey. 



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