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Show LEASES TO BRING MILLIONS INTO u: s.jp soi Secretary Fall Says Sums Will Be Spent in Reclamation Service WASHINGTON, March H Score-tarv Score-tarv of the Interior Fall, although his Office baa been besieged by patronage akara since March 4. has found time to so over some of the matters that must be Riven Ids consideration soon and announced today he will be readj in a few daye to outline some of the ipolielea the. department hopes to car-; ry out. The mineral leasing act passed last year lias increased the. work of the department, especially that of the general land office and the reclamation reclama-tion service and incidentally has resulted re-sulted In bolstering up the yearly income in-come of the department which was running low as the result of the reduced re-duced number of the sales of public I lands. ... J It K estimated that the department I will receive some five million dollars from back royalties on mineral leases. (Besides the back royalties, there will he an increasing sum each year re-loelved re-loelved from oil. gas. coal and phos-phate phos-phate leases. A big percentage or jthi money will go to the reclamation service to be used in further projoctH. The government owns 40.000.000 acres of coal lands which re being filed upon under the leasing act and the problem of railroad construction to servo H(f mines probably MW require consideration b ecroUi Fall. |