| Show WORK URK A I 1 Many Activities of Interi Interi- r Department Are Out Out- ined in Document h W WASHINGTON Dec 6 G By th the Associated Press A Press A re- re yiew of ot bustling interior depart- depart n nt activities that Into mai many and deep bel below belv v the sur sur- 1 Ae ae o of ot the earth w. w WAS WAS' v s' s given g yesterday yes yes- in the annual i port of Sec Sec- t Y Work j I iwas was one of the f few fw w annual ac neo ne a jj o of modern times In th W h a L cabinet officer offlie merely told 5 ie man i de-i many important tasks his de was doIngS doing and nd asked Jor Jor or nothing rhe printed pages pages formed brined a aMy a My bool of facts a and d figures de de- de i of departmental interests longing nging from the conduct of man many many- r dollar reclamation projects to o. o the number o ot Portuguese ad admitted admitted ad ad- during the year to the governmental gov gov- ID hospital at t Kalihi Ha- Ha il Jn n view of or the fact that congress y-eady y eady is occupied VIt 1 with a n continuIng continuing continuing ing reclamation pIo program m that subject subject sub sub- was given one one hun c. c of the space of the whole re re- re port Even this w w devoted en entirely en- en rely to a tabloid recital that the reclamation bureau had made certain cel tam tain surveys and carried put out certain certain tain ap construction authorized by congress had provided complete I Ir Irrigation irrigation ir- ir for acres and partial par par- tl l water supply to acres operated more than dams and miles of canals and built bridges 4 44 6 culverts and 82 flumes The scarcely less c conspicuous bu bureau bureau bu bu- reau of pensions recited its accomplishments J in three quarters of a page It paid during the year in pe pensions and received and 1 classified civil war and 72 Spanish Spanish war pension claims All 0 of this required the mailing out of separate checks cheeks The Te Alaskan railroad reported an increase 1 Jn In n earnings reflecting the ithe growth of the manifold 1 industries The go gornor of Ha- Ha way recorded no ll 1 and gratifying gratl- gratl progress progress' in i ten economic eco eco- and social n matters hers The va various various va- va rious and ly hospitals hospitals hospitals hospi hospi- and schools 1 under the of tI interior den department all rioted noted improvement and ar submitted ex exhaustive cx- cx s statistical I data to UY V 11 T So Sith the ll tJ through g the in intimate intimate intimate in- in contacts of t the land office which did an an tt business business bustness busi bust ness the Indian office hose min mm- ministrations min min- to the red m man n included ih erection of u uc new and anc and hospitals and the the improvement of the old ones the geol geological stir sur- ye which mapped the structure of the earth in three forty states lo located 10 th the point pf f origin of the na earthquake and picked up th the trail of valuable potash deposits and New Mexico and the 1 park parI service host during U fir t to tha a record national parks parks' e numbe numbering A l' l resume sume of or many conferences studies and investigations was cop cop- gained ined in the section d devoted vote to the bureau of education Among ther things this bureau bUteau ul c d 1 copies of a pamphlet entitled The Story of the Declaration Decla Decla- ration of Independence and cor car operated rated with many educational jn- jn and teachers S 'S and parents parents' societies o in the promotion of knowledge n The Alaskan reindeer b herd rd which was assembled years by agents of this bureau and Incidentally put the bureau e shipping business came In f 6 t he reindeer industry in m Alaska w wl l was established by the bu bureau bu- bu r reau Teall au of education continues to pros pros- bU 1 per The rhe bureaus bureau's vessel the Boxer 1 transports considerable ble quantities of reindeer neat meat to Seattle cattle where it is sold for fr the benefit of the native owners The volume closes with a recital of the internal arrangements of the Interior department here in Va Washington Wash hington h- h ington down to the number of light and heavy delivery trucks in the departmental garage and the character character charof char char- acter of the new equipment Ins Installed in installed In- In s stalled in the cafeteria thatis maintained maintained main main- for The signature of the secretary then is appended without a word of boasting or a single hint that thata a a few extra dollars donars might t come in handy here and there to mee meet the I of so great a of public activity merely Very respectfully HUBERT WORK VORK |
