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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Conservation in the Department of the Interior |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. IRRIGATIONII. SHACKLING THE COLORADO
III. PUBLIC LANDS
IV. OIL CONSERVATION
V. KETTLEMAN HILLS
VI. NATURAL-GAS CONSERVATION
VII. THE STATES ACT FOR OIL CONSERVATION
VIII. NATIONAL PARKS
IX. CONSERVATION OF THE INDIAN
X. CONSERVATION OF THE CHILD
XI. CONTINENTAL CONSERVATION
XII. THE COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
XIII. TERRITORIAL ADMINISTRATION
XIV. CONSERVATION IN THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
XV. CONSERVATION BY THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE
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| Modern Indian Mother and Child |
ILLUSTRATIONS
Modern Indian mother and child
The irrigated lands in the West are in black
Choice apples replace the sagebrush of yesterday
But for irrigation the site of the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City would be barren desert
Los Angeles adds to its water supply
The mad Colorado gnaws at its banks
Irrigation brings production to the desert
The drainage basin of the Colorado
The silt-eating lower Colorado
Hoover Dam and appurtenant works as they will appear when finished
The gap to be filled in by Hoover Dam
This sort of scene lies upstream from Hoover Dam
There are few more striking nature carvings than Toroweap in the lands upstream
Far downstream Salton Sea, 205 feet below sea level, bids for the waters of the Colorado
Downstream from the dam when it is completed
A typical fragment of the public domain
The streams that carry the water that brings life to the arid West
Gala day at an Indian pueblo in the Rio Grande country
Waiting for water in the dry country
Irrigation brought to railroad lands
Can the States extract a profit from such lands?
Homes like this follow irrigation
Western lands yield heavy potato crops
Signal Hill, Long Beach, Calif., a typical American field
A Texas gusher comes in like this
The waste is great when a new well spills oil about it like this
Dominguez Field, near Los Angeles, with a well to each 10 acres, is a model of proper development
Oil in improvised storage often catches fire
Barren Kettleman Hills contain oil of immeasurable value
Wells near Taft, in the Kettleman Hills area
In early days in Pennsylvania drills were worked by hand and oil was found at less than 100 feet
Natives in Burma dig open wells and produce their own oil
A well in the back yard which yields a few barrels a day for half a century is common in Ohio
Santa Fe Springs oil field, near Los Angeles, has wasted enough gas to supply that city for decades
Under titanic pressure these wells of the barren bills often get out of control
The ghost of Great Spindle Top, in Texas, which died more than 25 years ago
The sinuous steel snake stretches itself across the plain
Sturdy men in asbestos suits fight wild wells that catch fire
A new sort of "railroad" finds its way cross country
A link in the new thousand-mile-long pipe line
The joints are welded together in the field
Welded steel pipe finds a bed in swampy places
Some wells that spill over into the ocean are on Government land
Oil stored above ground constitutes a fire menace
The small well that produces though the years under the pump
Tankers are important to foreign trade
Sensational Signal Hill, near Los Angeles, where wells are producing at a depth of 9,000 feet
President Hoover caught a string in Yellowstone Lake
El Capitan in Yosemite National Park
The Rock of Ages, 750 feet below ground, in Carlsbad Caverns, N. Mex.
A stone log in Petrified Forest, Arizona
Wilderness areas unsurpassed in all the world have been preserved
Boating in the magnificent solitudes of Glacier National Park
A lost bit in Havasupai Canyon, Ariz
The public is invited to pitch camp in the national parks
Apache girls halfway on the road toward civilization
A Pueblo Indian sits on his doorstep
The Crow women excel in bead work
Shall she go back to the shack on the reservation or out into a white man's world?
The Navajos still are little affected by civilization
An Indian girl who works as maid in a Salt Lake City home
These Indian girls are being trained as nurses
The Indian has rarely made a success as a farmer
Indian boys take readily to such mechanical trades as linotype operation
Dan Inquip, a Blackfoot Indian, who became a railroad man
Basket making is a native art among the Indians
Scene in an Indian school in the Southwest
This is an Indian home on irrigated land in the State of Washington
Zuni children starting on the road to education
A few of Uncle Sam's 30,000,000 children of school age
The school now considers matters of health
The child needs plenty of sleep
A health prescription taken at the back door
Interest in food comes before interest in books
The school nursery is becoming popular
The homesteader's first crop on the plains
With irrigation the pioneer transformed the desert
Abandoned homesteads mark many a tragic failure
The prospector was a forerunner of civilization
The future may find a use for this desert
Dairy barns have replaced the wigwams of the Indians
We need to get our children back to the normal life of the country
The Government still owns the black areas
Fifty per cent of the sheep of the Nation are raised in the public-land States
This chart shows the ownership of land in the Western States
Irrigation has brought the dates of Sahara to the Southwest
Under this salt surface in a California desert is a lake of potash
Oranges from the desert seem to meet the definition of conservation as wise use
The solitary domain may be transformed into a scene like this
Oil on Government land in Kettleman Hills, California
If the grass cover is maintained, erosion will be avoided
As rain water cuts the plain that is without a cover of vegetation
Aloha Tower in Honolulu Harbor
The spirit of Hawaii speaks through the leis given departing visitors
A Hawaiian crater, two-thirds of a mile long, from the air
Coal discovers itself on the hillsides of Alaska
The Government-owned railroad in Alaska
The Alaskan pioneer stores his food upstairs and nails tin around its supports to stop the bears
McKinley, the highest mountain on the continent
At Fairbanks, Alaska, is the farthest north university in the world
A young Eskimo couple dressed for church on Sunday morning
Seward, gateway city of Alaska
Bluebeard Castle in St. Thomas
Working for the Geological Survey
The boundary line between Canada and Alaska
Aluminum ore that is readily accessible
Blast furnaces in which the quality of steel is improved by the introduction of other metals
A potash plant in Death Valley
A rich gold mine at Juneau, Alaska
A Geological Survey outfit for determining how much water runs down a river
Summer work with the Geological Survey
It was this sort of advance work on the Colorado River that made way for Hoover Dam
Topographical mapping from an elevation of 10,000 feet in the Sierra Nevadas
Ceded lands of the original States
The public domain that has been the charge of the General Land Office
A section corner marked on a tree in 1864 and photographed 62 years later
The scene of a settler's fight for a home
Some of the public domain that nobody wants
A point of vantage for Government surveyors
Drilling for oil under Government permit
A Government party reconnoitering the public domain
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