OUR MINES AND QUARRIES
THE United States Bureau of the Census has published a handsome report on the mines and quarries of the United States for 1902. It is a volume of 1,100 quarto pages, giving a very complete and detailed account of our diverse mineral resources, the annual products of which are worth more than $1 ,000,000,000. An interesting feature of the report is the chapter on electricity in mining, by Thomas C. Martin. The remarkable progress made in recent years in transmission of power through the utilization of water-courses has en- abled mining men to use electricity in every branch of their work. Electric locomotives have been substituted for cars pulled by horses or men. Electric motors are used for all kinds of work — drilling, coal cutting, hoisting, pump- ing, ventilating, etc. As a result a great many mining regions which formerly were too costly to operate from lack of fuel are now worked with much profit. The report also contains interesting chapters on copper, iron ore, gold, and silver, petroleum, quarries, and every important mineral. It also discusses the resources of the different states. The census statistics were gathered in collaboration with the division of the mineral resources of the Geological Sur- vey, among those who contributed to its success being Messrs Wm. M. Steu- art, Joseph D. Eewis, David T. Day, F. H. Olyphant, Joseph Struthers, Story B. Eadd, Joseph Hyde Pratt, George F. Kunz, Joseph Middletown, George P. Merrill, William F. Willoughby, and Isaac A. Hourwich.
THE HOME OF THE NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
THE deed of trust conveying Hub- bard Memorial Hall to the Na- tional Geographic Society was accepted by the Board of Managers on behalf of the Society at a meeting held in Wash- ington, June 14, 1905. By the terms of the deed the building is to be held by Charles J. Bell, President of the Amer- ican Security and Trust Company of Washington, D. C, "in trust for the sole use and benefit of the said National Geographic Society so long, and for and during such period of time, as said So- ciety shall continue its corporate exist- ence under its present charter, and shall continue to use and occupy the said land and premises and the improvements thereon for the objects and purposes set forth in its certificate of incorporation."
In accepting the gift the Board of Managers unanimously adopted the following resolution :
"Resolved, That the National Geographic Society, through its Board of Managers, express to the donors of Hubbard Memorial Hall, Gertrude M. Hubbard (Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hubbard), Alexander Graham Bell, Mabel G. Bell (Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell), Charles J. Bell, Grace Hubbard Bell (Mrs. Charles J. Bell), Helen A. Bell, Grace Hubbard Bell, Gertrude H. Grossmann (Mrs. Peter Stuyvesant Pillot) , Elsie Graham Bell Grosvenor (Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor), Marian Graham Bell (Mrs. David G. Fairchild), Gardiner H. Bell, Robert W. Bell, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Gertrude Hubbard Grosvenor, and Rosalie Pillot, its sincere thanks for their handsome gift to the Society. The members of the National Geographic Society appreciate the great interest of the donors in the welfare and work of the Society, and accept this new and generous evidence of their interest with profound gratitude."
THE GEOGRAPHICAL BALANCE
THE withdrawal of Norway from her ninety years' union with Sweden emphasizes in a rather striking manner the momentous shifting in the geographical balance of Europe which has resulted from the Russo-Japanese war. The geographical pivot of the European continent has passed from
