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Show UNCLE SAM PLOTS BY LEASING AC! OPERATIONS Millions to Be Added to Funds of Government Reclamation Service WASHINGTON. March II. .Secretary of the Interior Kail, although hla office ha bewtrged by patronage seekers nice March i. haa found time to t;o over to. rhe f th- matters I hut must te rlv' n hm ronriderut ion noon and announced tod;iy he would be remlv In , m few lith to outline Ho iii ( of the 7T"ltnr The" Tier rTmem-' hopes -to carry-1 out The mineral leading act panned lsst year h;i increiiwcd the work of the de- ( parlmrnt, especially that of the ecii-ernl ecii-ernl land office, mid t he reclainat ion 1 nervlcc. Mtid. incidentally, haa resulted ' I In bolstering up the yearly Income of, i the department, which running ; low a ttie result of the reduced num- : her of the H.ilcii pf public lands, j It la eatimateil the department will' receive no rue five million dollara from i la k royalties on mineral leases. He- ' sides the hack royalties, there will j he an Increasing rum each year re- relVfU from oil. gas. coal and phoa- , phate lennea. A hlK percent of this , money will go tg the reclamation svrv- ; ice, to he used In furt her projects. ; The government own? 0, mixtion a res TrrTT nirt.is wHT. n n rehclnif-Tiled' upon under the lew King act. and the ' prol)ern of railroad construction to j serve new mines probably soon will require re-quire onsiderat Ion bv Secretary Fall. |