LANE URGES
ENACTMENT OF
LEASING BILL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (by .Asso
ciated Press).—Fuller utilization of
national resources in coal, oil, water
power, land, and in human beings, is
urged by Secretary Franklin K. Lane
of the interior department in his an
nual report, just issued. From the
observation post that his office af
fords over varied governmental ac
tivities he draws the conclusion that
“far beyond all our possessions . . .
is the American man,” in a strong
appeal for Americanization and edu
cation.
"To him, to his spirit and character,
to his skill and intelligence, is due
all the credit for the land in which we
live,” Mr. Lane said. “That resource
we are neglecting. Twenty-five per
cent of the 1,600,000 men between 21
and 31 years of age who were first
drafted into our army could neither
read nor write our language, and tens
of thousands could not speak it or
understand it.”
Turning to the motive power facili
ties of the nation, the report says:
“The measure of a people’s indus
,. trial capacities^, seems to be surely
fixed by its motive power possibility,
and the coal strike has brought con
cretely before us the disturbing fact
that we live virtually by unanimous
consent. Let less than one-half of 1
per cent of our population quit their
work of digging coal and we are
threatened with the combined horrors
of pestilence and famine.”
Mr. Lane asks adequate provision to
collect statistical information about
the industry, paving the way to better
utilization of fuel in future.
Consideration of water power and
petroleum deposits takes Mr. Lane
to the wider spaces of the \Yest. He
states that 70 per cent of the avail
able horse-power in the nation lies
west of the Mississippi, and places the
total oil production in 1918 at 356,
000,000 barrels. Passage of public
land leasing legislation will make
available further rich supplies, he
says, and eventually the deposits of
oil shale “can be made to yield vastly
more oil than has been found in pools
or sands.”
“Yet with all the optimism that can
be justified,” the report says, “I would
urge a policy of saving as to petro
leum that should be rigid in the ex
treme. If we are long to enjoy the
benefits of 5 petroleum age, we must
save this oil.”
Ships using fuel oil should be
equipped with internal combustion
motors, Mr. Lane believes, and not
be allowed to burn oil to make steam.
A foreign oil supply should also be
sought and diplomatic and industrial
means used to develop it.
A new basis for the operation of the
reclamation service, which has chiefly
been occupied in Western states, with
a total of 1,602,000 acres made irri
gable, is suggested.
“The day has come when it (recla
mation) must be nationalized and ex
tended to all parts of the republic,"
Mr. Lane says. “To the deserts of
the West we have brought the cre
ative touch of water, and we must find
a way to go on with this work. But
it is of equal importance that we
should liberate rich areas now held
in bondage by the swamp, convert
millions of acres of idle cut-over lands
to profitable U8e, and raise from the
dead the once vigorous agricultural
life of our abandoned farms.'’
This does not mean more federal
appropriations, the report explains,
but assistance to local districts which
will provide funds by pledging the j
value of lands within them.
Mr. Lane says that 150,000 demobi
lized soldiers have applied for public
lands. He reasserts his belief that
the government is justified in doing
for soldiers what it would do for no
other class, as he has proposed in
pending measures.
Alaska Road Economically Built
The Alaska railroad, Secretary
Lane says, has been well and solidly
built, for ‘‘as little money as private
parties could build it.” Though total
costs have been rising, due to general
price situation, the report places ex
penditures at $70,000 and $80,000 per
main line mile so far, as compared to
$151,000 per mile reached recently by
some private ' roads in the United
States,
In a summary oi tne department»
work the report shows that the Osage
tribe of Indians collected last year
$17,000,000 in returns from oil and gas
land leases. Up in Alaska the depart
ment mined 55,300 tons of coal. In
Washington the patent office issued
37,259 grants to inventors, while the
pension office paid out $222,159,292 to
veterans of the Civil and Spanish
wars.
At the national parks 755,527 vis
itors were recorded during the year
On irrigated lands last year $66,
000,000 in agricultural, products were
grown, and Mr. Lane remarks that a
federal expenditure of $100,000,000
has added close to $500,000,000 to the
tax valuation of Western states. The
Salt River project of Arizona, where
crop values totaled $18,188,000, was
the banner producer of the reclama
tion service.
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