The fate of the government's regulations for the control of water-power sites was submitted to the United States circuit court of appeals at Denver last week, when arguments were concluded in the case of the United States against the Utah Power & Light Company.
The retention by the United States government of oil lands in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado is involved in the suit of the government against the Midwest Oil Company and others.
Following the interstate commerce commission's scathing denouncement of the New Haven road for the recent North Haven Wreck, in which it was held that man failures, beginning with its high officials and ending with its trainmen, were responsible for the loss of lives, sentiment in Congress has begun to crystallize in a movement to take up the whole subject of legislation for train safety at the December session.
The Amazon exploration expedition sent out by the University of Pennsylvania several months ago has just reported reaching Caracari, a small settlement at the headwaters of navigation on the Rio Branco and near the borders of the Guianas, in South America.
During the last quarter of the fiscal year the federal government entered into cooperative fire-protection agreements with the states of Maine, New York, Minnesota, Montana, Washington, and Oregon.
New Hampshire, through its attorney-general, has presented conditions which, if enforceable, may seriously imperil the purchase by the government of forest lands for conservation.
With nearly two million five hundred thousand dollars yet to spend and one million dollars' worth of contracts in force, the United States engineering office in Kansas City, Mo.
Bids have been received by the forest service for three hundred million feet of timber advertised for sale on the Tongass national forest in Alaska, and an additional three hundred million feet from the same forest has been applied for.
