Excerpt from The University of Texas Record, Vol. 10: No. 2; July 15, 1910 We have never taken an inventory of our national resources. We are in the position of a man who, when bequeathed an estate, has gone on spending his money freely, and has never taken the trouble to ask what his capital is. Now, however, we are beginning to realize that the resources mav not be limitless; that we must. Know what we have to depend on, and how long we can. Make it last. There are four kinds of resources: our minerals, forests, water powers, and soil. Of all of our mineral resources, coal is the most import-ant. Until about the middle of the Nineteenth Century we had scarcely begun to draw upon this resource; we had only scratched the surface, so to speak. But at the end of the first decade in this century, it will be found that, in the ten years, we have taken out more coal than in all the preceding decades to gether, just as each of the two decades previous was greatly in ex cess of the ten years before them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.