Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the InteriorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 - Forest reserves |
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14 miles 15 feet 50 feet abutment aluminum tablet Anniston azimuth Back azimuth base of rail Bastrop bench mark bridge bronze tablet center of top center of track chiseled square copper bolt COUNTY Creek east of road east side feet distant feet east feet north feet northeast feet south feet southwest feet west fence forks of road iron post Jacksonville Lake Lehigh Valley Railroad Magnetic declination Milepost H Milepost Wallula miles east miles north miles northeast miles south miles southwest miles west nail in root Nobleboro north of road north rail north side Northern Central Railway northwest corner oak tree post-oak tree post-office quadrangle rail at road railroad spike Railway Reference marks River road crossing rock schoolhouse side of road south of track south side southeast corner spike in front spike on Milepost Station mark stone telegraph pole top of north top of rail Trestle West Canada Creek west side
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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 244 - A marble post 36 by 6 by 6 inches, set 32 inches in the ground, in the center of top of which is countersunk and cemented a bronze triangulation tablet. (Latitude, 40° 21
Page 27 - That in the form provided by existing law the Secretary of the Interior may file and approve surveys and plats of any right of way for a wagon road, railroad, or other highway over and across any forest reservation or reservoir site when in his Judgment the public interests will not be injuriously_aKected thereby.
Page i - King. 1880. 8°. 79pp. 1 map.— A preliminary report describing plan of organization and publications. II. Second Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1880-'81, by JW Powell.
Page i - ... be the property of the United States and form a part of the library of the organization : And the money resulting from the sale of such publications shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.
Page iii - Price 10 cents. 9. A Report of Work done in the Washington Laboratory during the Fiscal Year 1883-'84. FW Clarke, Chief Chemist. TM Chatard, Assistant Chemist.
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.
Page 242 - A sandstone post 48 by 12 by 12 inches, set about 40 inches in the ground, in the center of top of which is cemented a bronze meridian tablet.
Page 250 - A sandstone post 30 by 8 by 8 inches, set 30 inches in the ground, in the center of top of which is cemented a bronze tablet marked "US Geological Survey — Pennsylvania.
Page iii - Hypersthene-Andesite and on Triclinic Pyroxene in Augitic Rocks, by Whitman Cross, with a Geological Sketch of Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, by SF Emmons. 1883. 8°. 42 pp. 2 pi. Price 10 cents. 2. Gold and Silver Conversion Tables, giving the Coining Value of Troy Ounces of Fine Metal, etc., computed by Albert Williams, jr.