Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Volume 25U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 - Forest reserves |
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acres Alaska amount ANNUAL REPORT PL Area mapped Area metric areas are given assisted by Messrs atlas sheets basin Bulletin canal charge Colorado contour interval cooperation County course of publication Creek Dakota district eastern section engineer engraving feet Figures in italic fiscal Frank Sutton Geologic Folio geologist included in total investigation irrigation Island June 30 Lake land long tons Milk River Mountain North Ohio Origi portion prepared primary control Prof Professional Paper progress of topographic quadrangle reconnaissance reduced and form region Resur resurvey River rocks Santa Seward Peninsula sheets form short tons showing progress sion South South Dakota Special sheet Spirit Bench spirit levels square miles SURVEYING AND PRIMARY surveys in eastern tions Topographic surveys total areas Trav Triangulation stations Trigono TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY underground waters Valley valued vey or revi vicinity sheet includes Washington Water-Supply Paper
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Page 12 - That this officer shall have the direction of the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain...
Page 9 - I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of the operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1906, together with plans and recommendations for the future.
Page 106 - Harrison, the area mapped being 30 square miles, for publication on the scale of 1:62,500, with a contour interval of 20 feet.
Page 127 - Lloyd, topographer, on the above scale and with the same contour interval. 1898. — O'Fallon sheet, in Calhoun and Jersey counties, was mapped by Mr. Paul Holman, topographer, for publication on the scale of 1:125,000, with a contour interval of 50 feet. The...
Page 255 - Description of Underflow Meter Used in Measuring the Velocity and Direction of Movement of Underground Water: US Geological Survey WaterSupply Paper 110, pp.
Page 12 - I have therefore concluded that the intention of Congress was to begin a rigid scientific classification of the lands of the national domain, not for purposes of aiding the machinery of the General Land Office by furnishing a basis of sale, but for the general information of the people of the country, and to produce a series of land maps which should show all those features upon which intelligent agriculturists, miners, engineers, and timbermen might hereafter base their operations, and which would...
Page 98 - ... in 1901. Georgia yielded the greater bulk of the product, the remainder being supplied by Alabama and Arkansas. Chromic iron ore. — California was the only State producing...
Page 16 - Superior iron ores and the publication of numerous reports on that region have so effectively directed the prospector in the discovery of the deposits and the miner in economical methods of development that this region now leads the world in the production of iron ore.
Page 97 - ... 207,874 long tons, valued at $947,089. as compared with a combined production of 241,691 long tons, valued at $1,257,879, in 1901. The production of sulphur was from Louisiana, Nevada and Utah, named in the order of the importance of their outputs. Oregon and Idaho reported no production in 1902. The greater part of the output of pyrite was derived from Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Colorado and Massachusetts, named in the order of production. PIGMENTS. Barytes. — The production of crude...
Page 185 - Washington sheet, on scale of 1 :62,500, has been reduced and forms part of Patuxent sheet, on scale of 1:125,000. ' Montross, Piney Point, and Wicomico sheets, on scale of 1:62,500, have been reduced and form parts ol Nomini sheet, on scale of 1:125,000.