Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our Country and Its Resources
There is no more fascinating story in'the world than how we are governed by means of often invisible threads that seem to begin nowhere, but always end somewhere to our profit and often pleasure. Who shall tell this wonderful story of achievement? How five blades of grass are made to grow where two should be found; how fish that have been left high and dry on land after a flood are put back in water to prevent air drowning; how forests are conserved at a profit; how reclamation makes the desert smile; how national parks can be run for both profit and pleasure; how good roads decrease the cost of living; how the three great Government Surveys carry on their ceaseless work to exploit our resources, or chart the fairways of commerce; how the Coast Guard is always on the lookout to protect life and property at sea; how the Patent Office has succeeded in making us a nation ofinventors and quadrupling our national wealth; how commercial and industrial preparedness have changed the gears on the car of industrial progress - all these and many more remain to be told. Who shall tell the story? Why not let Uncle Sam do it? He is patient, kind, amiable, and exceedingly accurate in his information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
