The coal investigating committee of the New Jersey Assembly has submitted a report to the House that eleven big railroad companies control 87 per cent of the total anthracite mined; that there is a general combination between these companies to fix prices, and that the coal sales companies are owned and controlled by the railroads and are devised by the carriers for the purpose of technically avoiding the commodities clause of the Hepburn railroad act.
The special bond attorney of the board of port commissioners of New Orleans will go before the Louisiana Legislature at the coming session and ask for legislation and financial support necessary to secure the construction of a railroad bridge over the Mississippi river at New Orleans.
The site of the Pacific terminal of the Panama canal at Balboa, including the dry docks, shop facilities, wharves, and the one new commercial pier authorized at present, begins with the sea end and extends about one mile in a southwest to northeast direction.
Administration bills have been introduced in the House and Senate at Washington to make available for immediate development the coal, oil, phosphate, and potash deposits of the West along the lines of the Pinchot conservation theories.
Federal aid for improvements on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, to carry out the Great-Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway plan, is recommended to Congress by Secretary Garrison.
On a rough estimate, a newspaper with an average circulation of sixty thousand copies and an average edition of twenty pages, uses each day the product of about four acres of spruce forest.
Gradual purchase of forest lands during a period of five years, and an annual appropriation of fifty thousand dollars to buy land not devoted at present to the growing of timber, are two recommendations made by the special commission created by the last Massachusetts Legislature to investigate the taxation of wild and forest lands.
The site set aside by the government of Panama from public lands on the west coast of the bay of Panama, about forty miles south of the city of Panama, for the proposed town of New Gorgona, to be settled principally by persons removed from the area of Gatun lake, has been formally dedicated.
