Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1922, Page 7

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1922. Che Casper Daily Cripune ) THOSE WHO SUBSCRIBE OR RENEW THEIR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE EVER MADE TO CASPER PEOPLE, WILL EXPIRE IN A FEW WEEKS. for ItSaves You Big Money ~, : Pay You to Investigate Right Now SHOW IN THE ARKEON TONIGHT OR CALL AT THE TRIBUNE AT ONCE PAGE = ~—- — : memes HAT |HAL RESOURCES ADD GREAT RIGHES 10 U. 6., DECLARES FALL Annual Report of Interior Secretary Points Out Wealth in Oil, Minerals and Other Sources; i Government Shares In Prosperity. country’s natural rescurces under control of the interior de- partment have contributed in great measure to national stabilization and prosperity, Secretary Fall declared jin his annual report. The secretary listed the more out- | standing of these contributions as opportunities for home- |making upon pub! lands by re-|tinues at the rate of the puet three | turned soldiers and other citizens; the|years, the diretcor reported, ft may | discovery of new oll fields; develop-|be necessary furher to augment the | | ment of existing fields and increasing | number of employes. The patent of | | production of of and its products; the| fice t# a self-supporting institution, | | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Use and development of the of coal deposits, and the|Mr, Fall pointed out, adding that tat | explotta | opening of mines im the western | ye: of the office wets | | states. 00 greater than expenses. , | neidentally, the Interfor secretary} The playgrounds of the nation, {ts | ared, theaa developments have re-|®ational parka and monuments, were ed in very substantial oash re-| Visited by a record breaking number persons. More than 1,316,000 effi- r to the federal treasury and to the various states in which these min-| #655 of e state and territery in eral resources have been developed | the posi ms and marty under leasing } laws. {foreign countries viewed the wonders The outstanding administrative ao-|° of nature preserved in these parke. Provisior ° it complishment of the department dur. vision {or storage of ol draws ing the fiscal year ended Iast June 30 rom government oll wells in the wes}. ; | to allow for keeping greater quantt- was declared to be the reaching l-/ ties of crude oll, was recommended most of current work in both the land|+n¢ report. in order that the guvern- office and the pension office. The *X°| ment, which is forced to sell its aD amiantion of final homestead proofs] -oratties month may take edven- ‘a current tn the former office, a sIt-|teln or perees cate hae uation which has not existed for ma “2 gnieirsig eee jyears, the secretary QT back its stocks, Provision for more |added, has already resulted in placing storage tanks, such as private eom- |Panies have, in the fields, ts absolute- in the hands of the people assets |), dl valued at more than $30,000,000 and necessary, it was sald. Under this has been Aone without increase 1 5 |System, Mr. Fall stated, the govern- - ment's o end 0 force of tat office and in the face of /uure 4, (ue tend to, beat down the ereatiy increasing work injury of the consumer. To the eg- Wide extension of the reclamation | tent that the government fs oblige’ policy in former arid lands of th*lts take part in business. it shootd West was recommended in the report. | through ite influence toward stadiity- ich showed that while funds were/ ation rather than toward demoralta- restricted for that work the achleve-| tion of the try, he said. | ments of the reclamation service jus | Point ut the government takes tified the continuation of the recla-lits royalties from oil land leases ff mation policy. One new frrigation|the form of crude ofl, Mr. Fall aff m 8 sou project was started despite lack of! returns ® during the funds, and the total es ot crops | year amounted to $7,800,000, while in raised on reclaimed 175.000,000, ‘The|t2® scal year $22,500,000 was re mated af more pe sasTespne homes,| covet by the ere. tribes from roy- t +} alties on increase of food production and addi-|ovnea Innas Prowuced from Indian tion to the national wealth by the! Reports of reclamation of lands make that work|anq Hawall, summucnad inte ae of great value LP ta a to prosperity, | rior report, review the Progress of the report fpr igre) Rape or the! two territories during the year. 3 fon of i ec jovernor the! to the lot of the interior department,|_ steady tnereage :ta-aepuraecotel ae has been greatly promoted. The &t-| ports foreshadowed returning prosper- tendance at Indian schools for the/ ity and said that with encouragement past year was 3,000 greater than in}a strong tide of immigration might any previous year. A special effort| have wet in. He add > provide greater health facilities te; unti rsints wae Gaueeeien ae the Indian through more hospitals Scale and industries started the and more extensive gursing service! population could not be expected to was made. incrense greatly. The governor sub- Le eet ae vor ee sities a iene list of recommendations re urgin, that fe re the bureau of pensions, and 99,000 ap-| wile’ of AlaWeas ersiehece whe fae plications for pensions, the accumula-| erieg be vested in the tnterior ane. tion “in ‘March, 1991." were: _ hundred. | partment: that branch lines and: spurs practically bringing that work UD t©/be built to the Alaska railros4: that date. The total number of pension-| at; jaw-enfore < oon: era on the rolls at the end of the fis-llaated under ths pores re ot a. cal year was 547,016, being 19,087 tice; that control of the tatertee be than the previous year, The amount/taxen over by the bureau of fishertes Gistrireed 'f5r pensions ‘was $308.807.-!ce the department of commersh, 440 r fr if Bebee SHeseesin es ercieney pkgs ted formulation of a colonization plan. . Zovernor Farrington of Hawall re crease en the cost of adjudication and| portea that during the twelv months payne a cpakine sumibes ‘of apvlt ended oer June the Pacific territory 01 ss * | pa d thro a cations for patents in this country aru nt tt one of the. eee ae was recelved by the patent. office, inancial periods In is history an@ more than 113,500. ‘This has caused |) ry ule Keneral business conditions and if the increase in the work con-/tng foremost of his recommendations was passage by congress of the Ha- wait emergency labor resolution ¢F some similar legislation to provide workers and at the same time bring the racial population of the territery more nearly {nto balance, Production of hellum, the nemin- flammable gas substitute for hyéro- gen in lighter-than-air craft, is un@er the jurisdiction of the interior depart- ment and under legislation notable Progress has been made by the b@- jreau of mines in perfecting metheds }of separating helium from natural gas, in which {t occurs. The most serious situation facing the department !s the low scale of Has added still another feature salaries, the secretary asserted. One of the bureaus of the department was | * organized in 1812 and. another in 18%9 Quietness and wince those. Gates eee ese schedule for employes has not been E. J. GROW, |revised. Because employes can earn 3 more in other departments and in eat- Resident Salesman side iiduetriea: the loon kaa Ferman 147 West J—Phone 2031-, has become demoralizing. Speeéy legislation to increase salaries ts gere- ly_needed, he said. For Everything in P; rinting TELEPHONE 980-J COMMERCIAL PRINTING CO. Basement Midwest Building—Opposite Post Offiee