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Abandonment of the conflicting water power bills now before Congress, and the creation of an ex officio commission with power to grant leases for the use of all public lands and streams, is suggested by Secretary of the Interior Lane as a solution of the water power question.

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By the formation of the National Dunes Park Association the first steps have been taken toward preserving a part of the thirty mile stretch of virgin wilderness at the foot of Lake Michigan for a national park.

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In the fiscal year 1916 there became operative twenty new water power projects which utilize national forest land.

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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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