The most radical reconstruction of New York city's school system ever recommended by a city official is contained in a report made to the board of estimate by Comptroller Prendergast, who is also chairman of the board's committee on education.
President Wilson, on recommendation of Secretary Lane, recently eliminated about seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of land from the Cleveland national forest, Cal.
During the last decade the forest service has classified as agricultural and opened to public entry more than 15,500 individual scattered tracts of land in the national forests, comprising more than 1,700,000 acres, says an article by the chief forester, published in the year book of the department of agriculture, just issued.
During the month of June the activities of the department of the interior in the classification of public lands were confined practically to classifications as to irrigability under the enlarged homestead act.
As the result of experiments carried out by a Swedish paper expert, it has been ascertained that Argentina produces in abundance a tree which provides excellent raw material, better even in quality than that usually employed in making paper pulp in either the United States or Europe.
How violators of the oleomargarine law have defrauded the federal government out of at least twenty-seven million dollars, due in stamp and special taxes, is revealed by Secretary McAdoo in a statement based upon a preliminary report on a sweeping investigation conducted by Commissioner Osborne of the internal revenue bureau.
Authorities give warning that before long all the newspapers of the middle West will feel the pinch of the greatly increased cost of print paper, because the spruce in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota is fast being eaten up by the hungry paper-mills.
Plans for the leasing of oil and gas lands on the Osage reservation, Oklahoma, have been concluded between the government and representatives of the tribe, after conferences lasting ten days.
