Regional Planning ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - Regional planning |
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Page 9 - An Act authorizing construction of water conservation and utilization projects in the Great Plains and arid and semiarid areas of the United States", approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat.
Page 64 - Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1937". SEC. 2. When used in this Act— (a) Convention: The word "Convention" means the Convention between the United States and Canada for the Preservation of the Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, signed at Ottawa on the 29th day of January 1937, and shall include the regulations of the International Fisheries Commission promulgated thereunder. (b) Commission: The word "Commission" means the International Fisheries Commission provided for...
Page 207 - ... carrying on prospecting work. It sometimes seems as if we had become so tied to automobiles, railroads, and wagon roads that we forget that the bulk of the placer gold of Alaska was produced practically without dependence on these facilities. It is...
Page 6 - ... any manner to acquire, any right to the use in the State of Texas of any water which shall flow in the Pecos River, or any of its tributaries, in New Mexico at or above the Avalon Dam, except such of said water as may not at any time be used or diverted from or above said dam: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to curtail the quantity of water to which present users in Texas may now be lawfully entitled: And provided further, That no construction under this act shall begin...
Page 5 - project', as used in subsection 3 (b) and section 4, shall be deemed to mean also 'division of a project', designated as provided in this subsection. Any project authorized for construction from appropriations under the head 'Water Conservation and Utility Projects' in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1940 (53 Stat.
Page 142 - That it is hereby declared that it is a national policy to preserve for public use historic sites, buildings and objects of national significance for the inspiration and benefit of the people of the United States.
Page 9 - General studies of the possibilities of further irrigation on a moderate scale in the Yellowstone Basin and in other basins tributary to the Missouri River may develop requirements for the examination of individual areas. Such requirements are not definitely known at this time. An informal agreement exists whereby the Bureau of Reclamation, the Corps of Engineers, and the Department of Agriculture will cooperate closely in the investigation of projects in which the interests of two or more of those...
Page 67 - Ocean" means the waters of the Pacific Ocean north of the thirtieth parallel of north latitude, including the Bering, Okhotsk, and Japan Seas, (f) "Import...
Page 208 - ... mine is situated. The geologic conditions on the Alaska side of the boundary, in the Hyder district as it is locally called, in places seem to be comparable to those on the Canadian side, and this similarity has sustained interest in the search for profitable silver and gold deposits there. Several claims have been taken up and more or less prospecting and development work done. The much greater unit price of gold and its more ready recovery have focused the search on gold lodes rather than on...
Page 211 - Ketcnikan, at which prospecting has been in progress for several years. Many of the lodes of the other minerals, notably gold, contain considerable stibnite, the sulphide of antimony, and in the course of mining them some antimony is necessarily taken out, though most of it is lost in the tailings. At a few mines, as in the Fairbanks district, some of the larger masses of stibnite are laid aside until enough has accumulated to be worth shipping. The present low price of antimony and the remoteness...