anaheim-gazette 1907-11-21

FUTURE ERA OF PROSPERITY Waste of Nation's Fuel and Water Supply Brings Vigorous Protest from the Geological Survey [CONTRIBUTED TO THE GAZETTE] That the present prodigious waste of the nation's natural resources must stop at once if we are to continue to prosper is the warning given to the people of the United States by J. A. Holmes, chief of the technological branch of the United States geological survey, who has just returned to Washington after a three months' inspection trip through the west. Holmes, who is an expert on fuels and one of the best known scientists in the country, toured the entire west at the instance of the government to learn just how serious the conditions are. He returns with the statement that in the mining operations of the present nearly half of the total coal supply is being left under ground; that water, the most valuable of all mineral resources, as a source of power is being wasted day after day and year after year to the extent of millions of horsepower, and that forest fires have burned more lumber than has been used in the building of homes or in the industries. "One of the great national problems in the consuming of the fuel many localities the limited of artesian water available forigation and other purposes is wasted on a considerable scale being allowed to flow continue when not needed or in excess usual need. "Other mineral resources being wasted on as large a scale true of water, but their waste more serious a matter, for this son that the supplies are notduced as in the case of water when once exhausted are exh permanently. No better intention of this fact can be found is seen in the deserted mining—deserted after the mines have exhausted. In connection with metallurgical processes is often a waste of materials also prove injurious, such large quantities of sulphur and nic vapors that are turned from the chimneys of the smelters. This waste is prevent and should be prevented due to double reason that these mines have a commercial and economic value and they are destructive adjacent vegetation. This destruction of vegetation allows the erode the bare land surface deposit the transported soil in adjacent stream. "The waste in metal mining treatment of gold, silver, lead, zinc, iron and other substances under the old timetables was frequently as high as 20 to 50 per cent, but the mining, milling and smelting..." supply is being left under ground; that water, the most valuable of all mineral resources, as a source of power is being wasted day after day and year after year to the extent of millions of horsepower, and that forest fires have burned more lumber than has been used in the building of homes or in the industries. "One of the great national problems is the conserving of the fuel resources," says Holmes. "At the present rate of increase in consumption, the better part of the fuel supply of the country will be gone by the end of the present century unless the proper steps are taken. "The future ascendency of American industries will depend largely on our manufacturers being able to secure cheap fuel. The value and cost of labor will never be reduced in the United States to what they are in foreign countries; but this fact renders all the more essential in the struggle for industrial and commercial supremacy that the manufacturers of this country be able to obtain fuel supplies cheaper than they are to be had in other countries. "The world recognizes Americans as the most wasteful of peoples in the utilization of their resources. Certainly no nation received so rich an inheritance as did the United States in its combination of soil, forest, climate, streams and mineral resources. The nation has literally grown up in luxury. Out of the very abundance of these resources we have developed an indifference to economy and the habit of waste. We have destroyed our game for its hides and horns; our forests for their tan bark or a pittance of the lumber they would yield; and meanwhile with a thoughtless indifference we have allowed forest fires to burn more lumber than we have used in the building of homes or in the industries. "Meanwhile, through the destruction of the forests about the sources of important streams and the im- their tan bark or a pittance of the lumber they would yield; and meanwhile with a thoughtless indifference we have allowed forest fires to burn more lumber than we have used in the building of homes or in the industries. "Meanwhile, through the destruction of the forests about the sources of important streams and the improper cultivation of these sloping lands, the fertile soils are washed away from the fields where they are needed and deposited in the streams and harbors of the country from which their continued removal will cost an enormous sum. We are thus gradually but surely destroying the value of our great water resources for power, for irrigation and for navigation purposes. This fertile soil and genial climate have furnished food enough for the nation and to spare; and so luxurious are the habits developed by this overproduction of food that it is sometimes said we waste food enough to supply another nation as large as our own. "Water, the most valuable of all our mineral resources as a source of power is being wasted day after day and year after year to the extent of millions of horsepower. As the essential factor in all irrigation work, it is being wasted by use to excess in many instances; but on a much larger scale and to the value of hundreds of millions of dollars it is being allowed to go to waste year after year by not being used at all, and in and sand in the construction of concrete buildings or for use in any other ways. The waste about some of the coal mines other mines of the past are taken back into the mines and waste materials are being reused in the mines for the building of porting pillars and in filling otherwise left open through extraction of the mineral deposit thus greatly diminishing the timber and permitting a larger extraction of valuable material from the mines. "Waste in the utilization of is a problem that in an even manner concerns the general for the reason that the fuel supply are coming to be regarded, like water and forests, as public utility. They furnish our heat, light power; they serve as the basic dustry and of transportation are, therefore, absolutely need to the welfare of the nation notwithstanding their vast importance it is in the mining and construction of these fuel resources to practice the greatest waste. "Persons now living can when the great gas wells were ingly inexhaustible in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania many of these fields this gas was wasted in a manner we criminal, and the exhaustion been so complete that there ground for believing that other plies of gas will be discovered many of these special regions. Petroleum in the past has, ities the limited supply of water available for irrigation purposes is being used at a considerable scale by need to flow continuously needed or in excess of actmineral resources are beaten as large a scale as is ever, but their waste is even as a matter, for the real supplies are not reproven in the case of water, but exhausted are exhausted by. No better illustration can be found than the deserted mining camps after the mines have beenusted. In connection with surgical processes there waste of materials, which injurious, such as the cities of sulphur and arsenic that are turned loose chimneys of the modern. This waste is preventable and be prevented for the reason that these materials commercial and economic they are destructive of vegetation. This destruction allows the rains to bare land surfaces and transported soil into the stream. Rate in metal mining and of gold, silver, copper, iron and other metallic under the old time practiced as high as from per cent, but the modern milling and smelting promension, been wasted, both in enormous overflows and the burning of material. In the early days of petroleum there was also an enormous waste through the failure to save the gasoline and other by products, which now have great value. Here, however, as in the case of the metals, the modern improved practice is doing much to lesson this enormous waste. This problem is one of special importance to the Pacific Coast states, owing to the absence of adequate coal supplies. "Coal is now the world's great fuel, Wood has been used extensively in the past, especially for domestic purposes. Gas and petroleum continue to have an extensive local use, and in power and light developments water power will play an important part in many portions of the country. But the world's great centers and industries of today and, as far as we know, of the future must look to coal as their source of heat, power and light. "Notwithstanding the recognized importance of coal, its mining and use are subjected to enormous waste. In the mining operations at the present time nearly one-half of our total coal supply is left under ground, partly as pillars to support the roof; partly as coal of inferior quality, only the best part of the coal from the beds being removed in many cases, and partly due to the fact that the working out of lower beds of coal first, frequently breaks and renders impracticable the subsequent mining of the adjacent higher coal beds. KEEP your eyes open visit Hatzfeld's Drug Store Lots of seasonable goods there. 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We do not have exact accounts of the money drained from the provinces and poured out for the enjoyment of imperial Rome, but there is no reason to suppose that it approached the amount which New York raises among her own people. The metropolitan budget has practically doubled in ten years. In 1898 it was $77,590,332. The increases have all come under Tammy administrations. In the two years of Low the city's expenditures were stationary or declining. This year they have gone up by fifteen million dollars at a jump, and last year the increase was almost as great. But it is only fair to Tammy to say that much of the responsibility for New York's growing extravagances is due to the Republican legislature, which saddles expenditures on the city against its protest. The government of New York city will spend more than twice as much in the coming year as the government of the United States spent in the year before the civil war. As lately as 1877, only thirty years ago, the expenditures of the national government, aside from interest on the public debt, were less than those of New York City now. That included the whole cost of the army and navy, pensions, public buildings, river and harbor improvements, the the construction of counings or for use in a variable ways. The waste piles of the coal mines and of the past are being into the mines and new materials are being retained for the building of suppairs and in filling space to open through the extrusion of mineral deposits by diminishing the need and permitting a much reduction of valuable matete mine. in the utilization of fuels that in an especial concerns the general public on that the fuel supplies to be regarded, like the forests, as public utilities. ash our heat, light and serve as the basis of infrastructure, and are absolutely necessary of the nation. But leading their vast importance the mining and utilization of fuel resources that we are greatest waste. now living can recall great gas wells were seemhaustible in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania. In case fields this gas supply in a manner well nigh and the exhaustion has complete that there is no believing that other suppass will be discovered in some special regions. in the past has, in like in the coming year as the government of the United States spent in the year before the civil war. As lately as 1877, only thirty years ago, the expenditures of the national government, aside from interest on the public debt, were less than those of New York City now. That included the whole cost of the army and navy, pensions, public buildings, river and harbor improvements, the diplomatic service, the care of the Indians, the support of the president, congress, and the entire civil service and all the incidental expenses of a nation of nearly fifty million people. At the present time the whole empire of Japan runs its government, aside from interest on its war debt, for a little over two-thirds of the cost of running the municipal government of the city of New York. That navy which some European observers think is going to swallow our own, costs less than fifteen million dollars a year for ordinary expenses; with an extra allowance last year of a little over five million more. That army which won the greatest three battles of modern times, costs about $25,000,000. New York pays more for public schools alone than Japan for her army and navy combined. Perhaps that comparison may be considered a credit to New York. For Sale—Center-street lots. There is only so much frontage on Center. There will never be more. It is the main business street of Anaheim and values have increased four-fold there in two years. I have 3 on E. Center and 3 on W. Center at a bargain. Address H., Gazette Office. 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