In pursuance of its retrenchment policy inaugurated earlier in the year, the Pennsylvania railroad has announced that sixty-eight trains will be discontinued on the lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie, beginning Sept.
If Brazil were to engage more extensively in the cultivation of cotton and rice, this step would help materially to solve its economic questions, according to investigators who have been busy with the subject for months.
Massachusetts is to have a three thousandacre fish and game preserve on the end of Cape Cod as the result of the efforts of the chairman of the harbor and land commission, who has succeeded in getting trees and grass to grow on the sand dunes, thus keeping them from drifting.
Foremost among the problems to be solved by the constitutional government, when once it is fully established at Mexico City, Mexico, is the distribution of land.
A concerted effort is to be made during the coming year to bring into use all of the remaining unused ranges in the national forests under the jurisdiction of the Denver office of the forest reserve.
Notice has been served by Kansas upon the promoters of railroad organizations, that it will not permit the capitalization of "possibilities" any more than it will permit the sale of "blue sky" securities within the state.
The interstate commerce commission, acting under the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court, has issued a notice to pipeline companies to file with it tariffs fixing rates and charges for carrying oil.
An urgent appeal to the business men and texpayers of Connecticut to assist in solving the highway problem of the state is being made by the Connecticut Good Roads Association, which has begun an energetic campaign to secure the construction of permanent roads.
About forty-five billion feet of lumber of all kinds is the annual production in the united States; of this, nearly twenty-five billion feet, board measure, are further manufactured, the other portion remaining for rough construction lumber and for similar purposes.
Aimed to prevent commercial monopoly of valuable natural energy, the bill for the development of water-power in connection with the use of the public domain, one of the measures on the Democratic program for conservation legislation, has been reported to the House of Representatives from the public lands committee.
As a result of experiments during the past few years, the department of agriculture is now advocating the use of the bedding-out system of herding sheep on open ranges, instead of the old close-herding system which has heretofore been in use.
