The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-16
A NE RIGA PRODUCED
356, 900, 900 BARRELS
OF OIL LAST YEAR

Washington, Dee 13.--Fuller utillza-
u-n of national resources in coal, oil
water power, land. and in human be-
ings, is urged by Secretary Franklin
K. Lane of the interior department in
bis annual report From the observa-
ti3n pos. that his office affords over
varied governmental 4tivities he draws
the conclusion tla. Tar beyond all our
possessions is the American
man." in strong appeal for American
ization and education.
ITO him, in his spirit and character
to his skin and intelligence is due all
the credit for the land in which we
live" Mr.. Lane said. THAT resource
we arc neglecting. Twenty-Five per
cent OF the 100000 men between Il
ana 81 years OF age who were first
drafted into our army could neither
read nor write our language and tens
OF thousands could not speak ii or un-
derstand it,"
Turning to tho motive power facil-
ties Of the nation the report says:
THE measure Of a peoples industrial
capacities seems TO be surely fixed by
its motive power possibility, and the
coal strike has brought concretey be-
fore us the disturbing fact that we live
virtually by unanimous consent. Let
less than one half of one per cent of
our population quit their work of dig
ging coal and we are threatened with
the combined horrors Of pestilence and
famine"
Mr.. Lane asks adequate provision to
collect statistical information about the
industry, paving the way TO better
utilization Of fuel in future.
Consideration of waterpower and pc
troleum deposits takes Mr.. Lane to the
wider spaces of the West. He states
that 70 per cent Of the available horse
power in the nation lies west of the
Mississippi. and places the total produc-
tion in 1918 at 356,OOO,O00 barrels. Pas.
sage of public land leasing legislation
will make available further rich sup
plies he says, and eventually the de-
posits OF oil shale "can be made to
yield vastly more oil than has been
found in pools or sands
be justified" the report says, 81 would
urge q policy of saving as TO petroleum
that should be rigid in the extreme,
If we are long to enjoy the benefits of
a petroleum age, we must save this
OIL"
Ships using fuel oil should be equip
. ped with internal combustion motors,
Mr.. Lane believes, and not be allowed
to burn oil to make steam. A foreign
oil supply should a'-D be sought and
diplomatic and industrial means used
TO develop it.
A new basis for the operation of the
Reclamation Service which has chief
ly been occupied in Western states
with a total of 1,GO2 900 acres made ir.
rlgable is suggested.
THE day has come when it (rccla-
mation) must be nationalized and eX-
tended to all parts Of the republic
Mr.. Lane says. "To the deserts of the
West we have brought the creative
touch of water, and We must find a
way to go on with this work. But it Is
of equal Importance that We should
liberate rich areas now held in bond
age by the swamp, convert millions Of
acres Of idle cut.over lands to profit
able use, and raise from the dead the
once vigorous agricultural life of our
abandoned farms
This does not mean more federal ap-
preparations, the report explains, but
assistance to local districts which will
provide funds by pedging the value
of lands within them.
Mr.. Lane says that $50 600 demobil-
lied soldiers have applied for public
lands. He rc-asserts his belief that the
government il justified in doing for
soldiers what it would do for no other
class, as he has proposed in pending
measures.
The Alaska railroad, Secretary Lane
says, has been well and solidly built,
for "as little money as private parties
could build il. Though total costs have
oeen rising, due to general price situa-
ion, the report places expenditures at
$4,000 and $4,000 per main line mile
50 far as compared to sl5l 600 per mile
reached recently by some private roads
IN the United States.
In a summary OF the. departments
work the report shows that the Usage
tribe of Indians collected last year Sll,'
900, 900 in returns from oil and gas
land leases. Up in Alaska, the depart
ment mined 80, 500 tons of coal. In
Washington. the patent office issued
81, ,259 grants to inventors, while the
pension office paid out 1922 ,292 TO vet
Grams Of the Civil and Spanish wars,
Al the national parks 755, ,j27 visitors
we're recorded during the year, and
questions as diverse as the feeding Of
Fix in Wyoming and the control Of Wit
rollc gases around Hawaiian vol
canoes came up for settlement.
On irrigated lands last year, $66 ,OOO,-
300 in agricultural products were