Items of Interest

October 19, 1912

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Yielding to the demands of conservationists that coal lands hereafter be leasted by the government to private concerns, instead of allotted or sold, the interior department has announced that the plan would be tried.
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October 12, 1912

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President Taft's veto of the Coosa river dam bill will, it is believed, bring about a settlement upon a fixed policy with respect to the utilization of water-power upon streams under the control of the government.
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October 5, 1912

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The engineers' calculations as to the sufficiency of the water supply in the Panama canal have been amply vindicated by the figures just reported from the isthmus.
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September 28, 1912

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All thirty-three so-called Cunningham Alaska coal land claims, involving alleged fraudulent blanket patents which contributed to the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, have been disposed of finally by the interior department.
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September 21, 1912

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First details of the four-million-dollar preliminary development of the Bronx river, which means a parkway fifteen and a half miles long, comprising an area of eleven hundred and thirty acres, extending from Bronx park in New York to the new reservation for the Kensico reservoir and connecting park lands with watershed properties that aggregate, exclusive of the Catskill project, nearly thirty thousand acres and represent an expenditure of over one hundred and thirty million dollars, have been given out by the Bronx Parkway Commission.
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September 14, 1912

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For the simplification of pleading and practise and the correction of any unnecessary delay or unreasonable cost resulting from practises under the rules as they now exist, the Supreme Court of the United States will revise the equity rules of the minor federal courts during the next term, which begins in October.
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August 31, 1912

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Postmaster-General Hitchcock has submitted to the House and Senate conferees on the post-office appropriation bill a recommendation that the House parcels post proposition be substituted for that of the Senate.
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August 24, 1912

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Secretary of the Interior Fisher submitted to the House committee on public lands last week a proposal to lease government coal lands to cities which will operate coal mines under regulations making it possible for consumers to enjoy the use of fuel at reasonable prices.
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