Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Volume 18, Issue 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - Forest reserves |
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14 miles 15 feet 50 feet Back azimuth back of telegraph bench mark bridge center of road center of track chiseled circle copper bolt Corner secs County Creek depot east side feet above center feet east feet north feet south feet southeast feet to left feet to right feet west fence forks of road Frio River Illinois Central Railroad iron post marked Kinney County Latitude Longitude mark on bowlder marked U.S.G.S. Meters Mile board milepost miles east miles north miles northeast miles south miles west Milwaukee and St nail in root north of road north rail north side northeast corner northwest post-office quadrangle rail of main Railway ranch right of road River road crossing road running root of large short tons side of road south side spike in back spike in telegraph spirit levels square chisel mark square miles Station mark topographic Uvalde west of road west side yards
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Page i - The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey shall accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior.
Page vi - Price 5 cents. 130. Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, Paleontology, Petrology, and Mineralogy for 1892 and 1893, by Fred Boughton Weeks.
Page i - Except in those cases in which an extra number of auy special memoir or report has been supplied to the Survey by resolution of Congress or has been ordered by the Secretary of the Interior, this office has no copies for gratuitous distribution. ANNUAL KKPORTS. I. First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, by Clarence King.
Page i - Director, but otherwise in ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies of each shall be published for scientific exchanges and for sale at the price of publication; and all literary and cartographic materials received in exchange shall be the property of the United States...
Page v - Price 10 cents. 65. Stratigraphy of the Bituminous Coal Field of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, by Israel C. White. 1891. 8°. 212pp. 11 pi. Price 20 cents. 66. On a Group of Volcanic Rocks from the Tewan Mountains, New Mexico, and on the occurrence of Primary Quartz in certain Basalts, by Joseph Paxson Iddings.
Page iii - Price 10 cents. 27. Report of work done in the Division of Chemistry and Physics mainly during the fiscal year 1884-'85. 1886. 8'.
Page 394 - The elevations published in the following list are based on a bronze tablet set in the foundation wall of the Normal School at Brockport and stamped "B 538.
Page 230 - In these, location sketches of permanent bench-marks may be made, and descriptions should in every case refer, with distance, to some village, section corner, or other place of local importance. All circuit-closure errors should be distinctly noted, with cross-reference by page to the connecting lines.
Page 412 - The elevations in the following list are based on a bronze tablet set in the Allegany County Court House at Cumberland, Md., and marked "C 688.
Page v - Price 15 cents. 76. A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States (Second Edition), compiled by Henry Gannett, Chief Topographer. 1891. 8°.