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Show : COMMENT EPS I . GOOD MI FILE ! Washington Is Preserving Information Necessary in Solving Problems. 1 The exigencies of the war have brought I; out the necessity of having In Waahing- ffl ton a permanent file containing detailed information relating to mines and mining 9 ' companies, information that is not now j avaiiablo In any library, but is needed by the government In solving many prob- : Itma relating to the betterment of the 1 mineral Industries. 1 Tne United States bureau of mines, I ! iiereforo, has undertaken the cstabllsh- ment of a file In which it intends to place not only data published in the annual relit re-lit ports of directors or mine managers to I stockholders, but also reports of consulting con-sulting engineers and the information I supplied by mining .companies In reply fflu to questionnaires submitted to them. The I rsportS of consulting engineers and any tj ruining reports that the author or the (ifj operator wishes to have considered con- B fid n tiki will be so regarded; those that m uiny bo published later will bear a stlpu- Hjf bated release date such as the author or Jjll operator may indicate. in order that this Information may be : collected as rapidly as possible, the bu-11 bu-11 rca'.i of mines invites mine operators, H consulting engineers and others to for-m for-m ward copies of reports that they may I make on any mining property, these roll ro-ll ports to be filed permanently with the iflfl ..nreau at Washington. Also, the bureau asks all mining companies that Issue flu an annual report to kindly favor the ; bureau with a copy for its files. Mining Ufl and Scientific Tress. |