The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-12-15

coast on a ''wind-janmer'' looking for
a very elusive fish. the mackerel.
When he learns mis- tricks the govern
mant will tell the fishermen.
Upon the coast of Alaska, at Afog-
max there is a new salmon station
which has liberated more than 3.000.-
600 young red salmon to the rivers
and during the year, all over tne I'm
tied States, the government deposited
in various waters more than 100000
fish.
q Winding their way through the tor
tuous channels in Inc waters of the
Philippines, a group of hardy men
from ahe coast and Geodetic Survey
are finding new lanes for commerce.
Waters hitherto uncharted aad a nys-
terry TO the mariner will be easy of ma
vigation. Another group is working
its way up the rocky coast of Alas
ka.
On the northern edge of The Unit
ed States a band of explorers has cut
its way through the forests TO the
peak Of the Rocky Mountains. mark
ing the boundary line of the United
States with Canada. The old stone
monument placed years ago and hope
lessly buried IN the tangle of noun
tain underground, ave been recov-
cred n new one set in their places.
Wherever the line runs through wood
ed sections, a lane of clearing mas
, been chopped up one side of the
mountain and down the other. Along
he Yukon river the civil engineers
with transits and ~plumb-bobs have
been locating the 1f1st meridian of
longitude. The basis for all future
land surveys in the valley of one of
The greatest rivers in the world, is
being laid there now.
Each aspect of this work comes I'M
der some one of the sixteen bareaus
of the department. They cover every
hing. In the bureau of corporations,
the proper control of the great indus
trial and financial forces of the coun-
try is The absorbing problem. A sys-
TEN Of statutory publicity by which
corporations will be required to report
The essential facts of their ~organiZa-
ton and condition, is suggested. This
must be done by the federal govern
ment, Secretary Nagal believes and
his report SAYS any attempt TO solve
the problem through state action will
he futile. because no number of stat
es can ever agree on establishing and
maintaining one system.
The bureau of immigration shows
in cold figures that tle longer the
stranger stays in the United States,
the more unlikely he is to go away.
There has beer during the year an
increase in the immigrant population
of the United States of more than
500, 900. More than a quarter of a
million Immigrants went back home
and 10000 of them had been here
less than five years. There were only
1000 departures of those who have
been here 90 years. The statistics
show il is the unskilled immigrant
who is the bird of passage n tlat
the mechanic and the artisan stay in
their new homes.
The effectiveness of the immigra-
ton limitations agreed upon between
Ahe government and Japan is demon
stfaNNin the reports which show
HsA of~664 Japanese WHO applied
for admission to the country. 2.432
had the proper passports from their
home government and only 212 were
debarred.
In the division of naturalization, it
is shown that 1922 aliens applied
for citizenship aperS, which was
more than 5000 over the lumber of
applicants during the fiscal year pre-
ceding.
The magnitude of the foreign COM
merce is amazing. The total value
of imports wag more taan 81 300, 000,-
200. The value of exports was more
than 81 500, 900. 900. During the year
more han 3.00O,O 900 bulletins from the
bureau of manufactures carried the
news of business opportunities from
he corners of the earth to American
capital and labor.
The bureau of navigation SHOWS
that We build fewer steel ships for
foreign trade than we did ten years
ago. because our shipbuilding is con-
fined to the needs of coastwise and
domestic transportation. During the
fiscal year 1909 our s~hipyards built
only 1,247 merchant vessels with ton
mage of 23S,090. the smallest product
since 1898.
The protecting waves of the wire
less telegraph have spread themselves
over the sea and formed a life net.
OF 2S2 steamships that carry Storage
passengers to and from tle United
States. half have been equipped with
wireless. and the proportion u%nequip-
ped is a small figure. n mainland
of Alaska, the United States, Hawaii
Porto Rico, and the Panam Canal
Zone have beer equipped with wire
less land stations and a vessel at sea
within 300 miles of shore can conmu-
nicate.
The department has made official
tests of mucilage, steel rails. soap for
use on the Panama Canal. silk and
many other things. II has establish
-u a uuTeai ol 1uudIuS ioT Honrst
weights with which some of the states
are cooperating. And when the de-
partment ias cared for everything
else in Its Jurisdiction. Secretary Ma
gels report calls attention to the fact
that ii has accomplished the work
with appropriations which have in
creased only a little O than three
per cent in the last fcu years.
Express Observation-Disclosures Hdw.
44t2.