Pamphlets on Forest Economics, Volume 41915 - Economics |
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Page 153
... United States as a whole , and in particular citizens of the western states , are fast approaching the time when , through necessity , they must determine carefully how much of the income of the people may be taken for public ...
... United States as a whole , and in particular citizens of the western states , are fast approaching the time when , through necessity , they must determine carefully how much of the income of the people may be taken for public ...
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... United States . Los Angeles city alone has more projects planned than any other city in the world . If any part of the United States needs a long term budget for public improvements the West certainly does . If at any time in the ...
... United States . Los Angeles city alone has more projects planned than any other city in the world . If any part of the United States needs a long term budget for public improvements the West certainly does . If at any time in the ...
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... United States government figures on a dozen dams of various sizes . The average was more than $ 12 a yard , all costs included . Have we any evidence that there is such a super engineer in the Flood Control Dis- trict as could reduce ...
... United States government figures on a dozen dams of various sizes . The average was more than $ 12 a yard , all costs included . Have we any evidence that there is such a super engineer in the Flood Control Dis- trict as could reduce ...
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... United States and its possessions produced during the year . Since 1911 , railroad cash dividends have shown a decrease of 14 per cent ; railroad taxes have increased 263 per cent . During the fiscal year 1924-25 , the interest ...
... United States and its possessions produced during the year . Since 1911 , railroad cash dividends have shown a decrease of 14 per cent ; railroad taxes have increased 263 per cent . During the fiscal year 1924-25 , the interest ...
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... United States Department of Agriculture . and Prof. Henry Schmitz , Department of Agriculture , University of Minnesota , con- tinue this month in THE TAX DIGEST the symposium on the question of deferring taxation on growing trees until ...
... United States Department of Agriculture . and Prof. Henry Schmitz , Department of Agriculture , University of Minnesota , con- tinue this month in THE TAX DIGEST the symposium on the question of deferring taxation on growing trees until ...
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Page 6 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 32 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 66 - BROWN (J. Croumbie), LL.D. Reboisement in France; or, Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the Cevennes, and the Pyrenees with Trees, Herbage, and Bush. Demy 8vo. Cloth, price I2s.
Page 137 - All patents granted, or preemption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by this section.
Page 137 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 4 - But the value of property results from the use to which it is put, and varies with the profitableness of that use, present and prospective, actual and anticipated. There is no pecuniary value outside of that which results from such use.
Page 91 - Tables and Results of the Precipitation, in Rain and Snow, in the United States, and at some stations in adjacent parts of North America, and in Central and South America.
Page 33 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 54 - Plaisia, which disappeared during the entire time that the mountain remained cleared of its forests (from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth), and reappeared 30 years ago, when the work of reforesting the slope had been finished.