During the month of June the activities of the department of the interior in the classification of public lands were confined practically to classifications as to irrigability under the enlarged homestead act.
As the result of experiments carried out by a Swedish paper expert, it has been ascertained that Argentina produces in abundance a tree which provides excellent raw material, better even in quality than that usually employed in making paper pulp in either the United States or Europe.
How violators of the oleomargarine law have defrauded the federal government out of at least twenty-seven million dollars, due in stamp and special taxes, is revealed by Secretary McAdoo in a statement based upon a preliminary report on a sweeping investigation conducted by Commissioner Osborne of the internal revenue bureau.
Authorities give warning that before long all the newspapers of the middle West will feel the pinch of the greatly increased cost of print paper, because the spruce in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota is fast being eaten up by the hungry paper-mills.
Plans for the leasing of oil and gas lands on the Osage reservation, Oklahoma, have been concluded between the government and representatives of the tribe, after conferences lasting ten days.
A total of eight hundred and twenty-two conventions and congresses will gather during the two hundred and eighty-eight days of the Panama-Pacific international exposition at San Francisco.
A recent statement by the secretary of the National Popular Government League, with headquarters in Washington, shows that while state and federal politicians are resisting the further extension of government ownership and control of public utilities, the cities show a strong tendency toward straight municipal ownership.
