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One of the greatest reservoir and stream regulating projects in the eastern states is now under consideration by New York State authorities.
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The construction of concrete highways is going on in twenty-two cities and towns in Connecticut, and when these contracts have been completed there will be about seventy miles of concrete surfaced pavement in that state.
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In order to relieve congestion and to eliminate the expense of extra handling of freight between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, a car-ferry service from Cape Tormentine on the mainland to Carleton Point on the island was authorized some time ago by the Canadian Government.
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A question of interest all along the Great Lakes is whether the drainage canal at Chicago, in diverting water from Lake Michigan to carry Chicago's sewage down the Des Plaines River and thence to the Mississippi, is actually lowering the level of the Great Lakes so as to interface with commerce.
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President Wilson has signed the national park service bill, and the sixteen national parks of the United States will in the future be administered under one management.
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Hankow and its environs is one of the greatest egg producing regions in China, shipping to Chinese and foreign ports over 16,197,000 pieces of fresh whole eggs, valued at $53,531, during the year 1915,—this is in addition to 12,347,867 pounds of frozen egg exports, valued at $462,716.
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There are 530 miles of steam lines in operation in Venezuela.
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The largest dam in Europe has just been completed near Barcelona, Spain.
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California on election day will have an opportunity of adopting the single tax.
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A method for using waste hemlock tan-bark partially to replace expensive rag stock in the manufacture of felt roofing has been developed at the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis.
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Interest in hydro-electric development in the district around Grenoble, France, on the Isere, a brach of the Rhone, has been revived by the movement recently initiated by the Grenoble Chamber of Commerce to attract new industries.
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The United States Government in filing in the Supreme Court its brief asking for the complete separation of the Reading Company, the Philadelphia & Reading Railways Company, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, and others, declares that the "Reading Commission" is the backbone of an alleged anthracite monopoly, that it controls about two thirds of the anthracite deposits, and that its supply will outlast by many years that of any other producer.