Hitherto the government had followed the easy path of giving away arable land and selling forest and mineral lands at low prices.

迄今为止，政府一直走的是让出耕地、低价出售林地和矿产地的捷径。

The Carnegie Company first acquired sufficient mineral lands to furnish ore for several generations and organized an ore fleet which transported the products of the mines through the lakes to ports on Lake Erie, particularly Ashtabula and Conneaut.

卡内基公司首先收购了足够的矿产土地，为几代人提供矿石，并组织了一支矿石船队，将矿山的产品通过湖泊运输到伊利湖上的港口，特别是阿什塔比拉和康尼奥特。

The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, which possessed apparently inexhaustible mineral lands in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, and California, itself produces not far from three million tons a year, almost half the present production of Great Britain.

科罗拉多燃料和钢铁公司在科罗拉多州、怀俄明州、犹他州、新墨西哥州和加利福尼亚州拥有明显取之不尽用之不竭的矿产地， 其年产量接近 300 万吨， 几乎是英国目前产量的一半。