and conservatively, the resources 

 of the West may be utilized for 

 her upbuilding and improvement 

 by the fullest recognition of their 

 interdependence, I believe that we 

 would meet the demands of all 

 whose ambition to gain fortune 

 has not closed their eyes to the 

 general good. 



WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OE THE 

 INTERIOR DOES EACH YEAR 



The Department of the Interior 

 has to do not alone with general 

 policies, but with an infinitude of 

 administrative detail. Its embar- 

 rasments arise out of the large 

 number of matters as to which 

 administrative discretion may be 

 exercised. That you may, how- 

 ever, appreciate the scope of the 

 department's activities, permit me 

 to note here that we care for the 

 Eskimo in Alaska and for the in- 

 sane in the District of Columbia ; 

 for 324,000 Indians scattered 

 throughout the continent, for 

 whom we hold property in trust 

 approximating in value $1,000,- 

 000,000; that the choice beauty 

 spots of our country have been 

 set aside as national parks, which 

 are in our care ; that we distribute 

 to over 800,000 pensioners, their 

 widows and dependents, a round 

 sum of over $165,000,000 a year 

 we issue to inventors of the United 

 States and foreign countries an average 

 of more than 3,000 patents each month ; 

 that every miner in the land is interested 

 in those means which we are taking to 

 prevent mine accidents and more fully to 

 realize the mineral wealth of the land ; 

 that the schools of the Indians and the 

 national university of the colored people 

 are under our jurisdiction, together with 

 the Hot Springs of Arkansas and the 

 cliff dwellings of Colorado ; that the in- 

 ternal economy of the Territory of Ha- 

 waii, as well as that of Alaska, fall 



A RADIOGRAPH OF A KEY 



This picture was made by placing a key on the outside 

 of a light-proof plate-holder containing a photographic 

 plate. A block of radium-bearing ore three-quarters of 

 an inch thick was then placed on the key and the photo- 

 graph resulted. 



that 



within the purview of this department ; 

 that it is our part to measure the waters 

 of a thousand streams, survey the lands 

 of all the States, and look beneath the 

 surface to see what they contain ; that 

 we have still in our care a great body of 

 public land (some 300 million acres out- 

 side of Alaska), out of which each year 

 approximately 60,000 farms are carved; 

 that we have a bureau of education, 

 which should be provided with the equip- 

 ment by which it may adequately do a 

 great work for the schools, the teachers, 

 and the children of this country, or be 

 abolished. 



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