The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-02-14
The 9ai1p SoMrMal.
Renort of the state GeoIogtst.

DR.. Owen made brief Report of his
geological survey to the State Board of Ag-
riculture while in session at indianapolis
embracing the following points.
l, The manner in which the survey
and appropriation had been made and placed
under the care of the State Board of Agri-
culture.
2. That to the Board had already been
submitted, as required by law, for publica-
tiOn, a condensed report of the work accom-
plished and of the manner in which the APP
propristion had been expended.
3. The detailed report of all the heId
and office work was now in the hands OF
the printer, the following outline of which
DIR. o. proceeded to submit to the Board
aud delegates. The report briefly states the
objects to be attained by geological surveys,
aid to the mechanic, aid to the miner, en-
gineer and many others, but especially TO
the farmer, by the analysis of soils and con-
sequent deduction regarding crops and fer
tilizers, was among the many hoped to be
secured. The report then goes into short
statement of preliminary geological prin-
ciples calculated to render the perusaI of de-
tails Ineligible. Their follows the descrip-
ton of the lower silurian formation (chief-
-
Dearborn, Ripley, Ohio and Switzerland
counties) the pecuIiarities of soil and con-
sequent adaptation to certain crops, the
rock quarries, the ores, the grit, clogs, &c,
coal, if any, and the like found in this for
nation ; then the springs and rills, diseases
and miscellaneous details. Lastly the char
acteFistic fossils.
The same details are then given for the
counties chiefly in the Upper SiluTean, viz:
Adams Wells, Huntington, Wabash, Miami,
Jay, Blackford, Grant, Howard, Delaware,
Madison, Randolph, Henry, Hancock, Deca-
tur, Rush, jennings and Jefferson.
Then the same for the counties in the De-
vonian System, viz: Carroll, Upton, Hamil-
ton, Shelby, Bartholomew, Jackson, Clark,
and Scott
The peculiarities of the counties in the
subcarboniferous sandstone are then alluded
to: Boone, Marion, Hendricks, Johnson,
Morgan, Brown, (part of Jackson,) Wash
ington, and Floyd.
Next follows a description of the subcar-
boniferous limestone counties; Montgome-
~, Putnam, Monroe, Lawrence, Harrison,
Orange, and Crawford.
This brings us into thegreat Indiana coal
field, which embraces at least twenty coun-
ties in which is worked, in some quite ex-
tensively, and of excellent quality. These
are Warren, Fountain, Parke, Vermillion
Clay, Vigo, Owen, Greene, Sullivan, Mar
tin, Davies, Knox, Dubois, Pike, Gibson
Perry, Spencer, Warrick, Vanderburg, and
Posey. Most of the iron ore, not bog, il
around the margin of this BASIN
The great deposits of bog iron ore, easily
worked and of good quality, are in the
great subdivision--the drift or quateruary
deposits--embraeing Sieuben, Lagrange
EIkhart, st. Joseph, Laporte, Porter, Lake
DeKalb, Noble, Kusciusko, Marshall, Starke
Jasper, Newton, Allen, Whitley, Fulton
Paluski, White, aud Benton.
DR.. o. then proceeded to show the impor-
lance of the results exhibited in DR.. Peters
report Of thirty-three soils analysed from
different geological formations.
He next explained the Importance of Mr.
Lerguereux's Investigations, assigning each
coal to its proper bed so as to know whether
several openings belonged to one OF more
coal seams.
Lastly, he showed the beauty and ability
of the typographical work executed and re.
ported On by Mr.. Lesley, of Philadelphia,
whose work shows, by successive lines, ele-
vations of ten feet, instead of the unmean.
ing shading given to similar works, and in.
dictates by eolors the geological formations