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.
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.
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.
David Lubin, delegate from the United States to the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome, has presented to a group of local economists who met at Philadelphia, Pa.
The Daily Trade Record says: "Competitors of the Japanese in foreign markets, who had hoped that the new factory law, which will become effective in Japan on Sept.
To make a successful fight against moving sand-dunes such as those of the Columbia River region and other places along the Pacific coast, the United States must follow the plan adopted by France many years ago and build one great dune in an effort to eliminate many smaller ones.
Secretary Houston of the United States department of agriculture has just announced the plan to be pursued in spending the $10,000,000 appropriated by the Federal aid road act for the construction and maintenance of roads and trails within or partly within national forests, and has tentatively allotted among the various national forest states the $1,000,000 which can be expended this fiscal year.
At a meeting of business men held in Rio de Janeiro, on June 20, a company was formed for the exploitation of a process for preserving meats without the use of refrigeration.
The new Erie barge canal, 446 miles long-one of the world's greatest feats of engineering—will be entirely completed and in operation by 1918, according to the state engineer and surveyor.
The Argentine minister of agriculture is about to present for congressional approval a project providing for the issuing of 16,000,000 pesos in bonds to be used in the exploitation of the Comodoro Rivadavia oil fields.
Ninety per cent of the registration and license fees paid in the United States in 1915 by automobilists to the different states, or $16,213,387, was spent for the building and maintenance of county and state roads.
