With the completion of the Dalles-Celilo canal, which removes the last barrier to the free navigation of the Columbia river and its tributaries from the Pacific ocean 479 miles inland to Lewiston, Idaho, the people of the Columbia basin have just commemorated the importance of the event in a series of celebrations which are participated in by government and state officials, representatives of commercial, agricultural, and civic organizations, and the citizens of all the communities along the great waterway.
Secretary Lane of the department of the interior, in his statement of classification activities of the department for the month of March, shows that during this month the lands restored to entry exceed those withdrawn by more than one half million acres.
The merchantable timber acquired by the federal government in the purchase of land for national forests in the White mountains of New Hampshire and the southern Appalachians amounts to more than a billion board feet, worth upward of three million dollars on the stump, according to an appraisement by the forest service.
Sixteen thousand union carpenters in Chicago, striking for an increase of five cents an hour, were under the ban of a lockout order by their former employers a few days ago.
The Seward-Fairbanks route has been officially selected for the United States government railway in Alaska, setting in motion many plans for the further development of resources in that territory.
In a recent issue of the Anglo-Norwegian Trade Journal, a writer states that no country in the world has, in proportion to its population, so large a mercantile fleet as Norway.
Plans for leasing hotel sites, camp sites, store sites, and cottage sites located in the Appalachian national forest in Maine and New Hampshire, are being formulated by the forest service, in compliance with a provision in the new agricultural appropriation bill.
"Palm kernels and the palm kernel oil trade in Africa have been hard hit by the present war in Europe," says a statement issued by the National Geographic Society at Washington.
