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Title: Conservation Through Engineering
Extract from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior

Author: Franklin K. Lane

Release Date: April 6, 2010 [EBook #31899]

Language: English

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66TH CONGRESS
_2d Session_

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

DOCUMENT No. 572

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Director

Bulletin 705

CONSERVATION THROUGH ENGINEERING

BY

FRANKLIN K. LANE

Extract from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior

[Illustration]

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1920

CONTENTS.

Page.

The coal strike 1
National stock-taking 3
Coal as a national asset 3
Public responsibility 4
The miners' year 5
Have we too many mines and miners? 7
The long view 7
Saving coal 9
Coal and coal 10
Expansion abroad 11
Saving coal by saving electricity 11
White coal and black 12
The age of petroleum 13
Oil shale 15
Save oil 16
Use the Diesel engine 17
Wanted--a foreign supply 18
By way of summary 20
Land development 22
A program of progress 22
Garden homes for the people 23
Reclamation by district organization 24
Soldier-settlement legislation 27
Alaska