The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1926-12-11
WORK REPORTS
BUS|NESS;ASKS
FOR NO N NEY
Annual Accounting Of Inter
ior Department Is Made
Statement of Facts.

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA birds
eye-view of bustling Interior Depart
ment activities that reach into many
far hooks and deep below the surface
of the earth was given in the an
nual report of Secretary Work.
1t was one of the few annual ac
countings of modern times in which
a cabinet officer merely told of the
many important tasks his department:
was doing. and asked for nothing.
The 104 printed pages formed 4
handbook of facts and figures des-
criptve of Departmental interests
ranging from the conduct of many
million-dollar reclamation projects to
the number of Portuguese admitted
during the year to the Governmental
hospital at Kalihi, Hawaii.
In view of the fact that Congress
already is occupied with continuing
reclamation program, that subject
was given barely one-one hundreth
Of the space of the whole report.
Even this was devoted entirely TO
a tabloid recital that the Reclamation
Bureau had made certain surveys
and carried out certain construction
authorized by Congress, had provided
complete irrigation for l,S02,970 acres
and partial water supply to l,3f0,.
600 acres, operated more than 100
dams and 5000 miles of canals. and
built 431 bridges, 41G culverts, and
So fumes.
Pension Statistics
The scarcely less conspicuous Blu
roau of Pensions recitcd its accom-
plishments in three quarters of &.
page. 1t paid during the year $207.
S44,3iS in pensions, and received ahl
classified 42.S94 Civil War and 20
437 Spanish War pension claims. All
of this required the mailing out Of
G.311.105 separate checks.
The Alaskan railroad reported on
increase in earnings reflecting the
growth of the Terrtory's manifold
industries. The Governor of IIawaii
recorded normal and gratifying pro-
gress" in the territorial economic and
social matters The various and
widely scattered hospitals and
schools under the wing of the Inter
ior Department all noted improve
ment. and submitted exhaustive sta
tistical data to prove it.
General Land Office
SO the report ran through the in.
innate contacts of the General Land
Office, which did an eleven-million
InIi
whose mnistrations to the Red Man
included the erection of new schools
and hospitals, and the Improvement
of the old ones the Geological Sur
vey, which mapped the structure OF
the earth in forty-three States, locat
ed the point of origin of the Montana
earthquake, and picked up the trail
of valuable potash deposits in Texas
and New Mexico; and the National
Park Service, host during the year
to a record national park tourist
horde numbering 1,930,S65.
A resume of many conferences,
studies and Investigations was con-
tanned in the section devoted to the
Bureau of Education. Among other
things. this Bureau distributed 32o,-
600 copies of a pamphlet entitled
"The Story of the Declaration of In
dependence and cooperated with
many educational institutions and
teachers and parents societies in the
promotion of knowledge. The Alas
kan reindeer herd, which was assem-
bled years ago by agents of this
l., ;ol, In tall
the Bureau also into the shipping
business came in for paragraph.
Reindeer Industry
"The reindeer industry in Alaska,
which was established by the Bureau
of Education, continues to prosper
The Bureaus vessel, the Boxer
transports considerable quantities OF
reindeer meat to Seattle, where 1t is
sold for the benefit of the native
owners"
The volume closes with recital
OF the internal arrangements of the
Interior Department here in Wash
ington down to the number of light
and heavy delivery trucks in the De
partmental garage, and the character
of the new equipment installed in the
cafeteria that is maintained for EN-
ployes.
The signature OF the Secretar!
then is appended without word o.
boasting; or single hint that few
extra dollars might come in hand,
here and there to meet the far-fluni
demands of so great load OF pub
lie activity. Merely,