The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-13
SURVEYS BEING MADE.

The details of TIE work accom- plished
this season thus far is, shortly, as follows ::
Mr.. Prime has surveyed the limestone
country lying between his map of last year
and the Lchigh river, and is commencing
his survey of Northampton county, which
he hopes to complete his fall, so much of
it as lies between the edge of the slate and
the gneiSs. Mr.. Frazer has added to his
last years map OF the ore belts Of York
aud Adams, and has mapped a good deal
of the north borders of new red and south
flank of the mountain. He will continue
this belt to the Maryland line. Mr.. Devices
has followed the out-crops of the fossil ore
to the SuSquehanna river and back to
Mililin, and will continue the same. Messrs.
Billin and Ashburner were detached in
April fOr special survey across the coun-
try along She Hne Of the East Bload Top
railroad, Mr.. Billin making the maps and
Mr.. Ashburner studying the geology and
constructing the sections. Their last work
has been in the Trough creek coal basin.
They have discovered eleven small coal
beds, of no practical value, in SIdelong
ridge.
Mr. Plat fixed his headquarters at sum
NIT, Cambria county, and with his aid W.
G. Platt has visited and described and To-
Gated on Mr.. Ed. Smiths old contour line
map every coal bank in the county. This
survey will continue through to Somerset
county this seaSan.
He has supcrintended Mr.. Sanders map
ping the Canoe Valley, Sinking Valley and
Morrison Cove, which will be finished this
season and Mr.. Fageu's observations of the
iron and zinc ores. Mr.. Platt has also su
perinten0ed Mr.. Ioung's statistical survey
of the coke field of the Youghogheny Val
ley from Connelsville to Pittsburgh, much
to the satisfaction of the people. This
a an i'm
Professor Stevenson and Mr. White have
surveyed Green county and made COM
plcte section of :, 800 feet of coal measure.
rocks above the upper coal beds, locating
on the map the depth of the large coal
beds beneath the surface at the principal
cross roads. They have discovered and
located across the country two anticlinals
and two synclinals, and made the geology
perfectly plain. The rest of the season
they will survey Washington county.
Mr.. CARL continued his observations at
intervals all winter and has recently been
reinforced by Mr.. Hale, who. with Mr.
latch, Is surveying carefully the out -crop
of the Borea Grit from Warren to Sharon.
Mr.. CARL is collecting notes through the
oil region and applying his discoveries of
last fall to the study of the country south
of Franklin. Mr.. Sherwood and his aid
have traced from farm to farm across Tioga
county, the Mansfield ore bed, red beds.
fish beds, and the Catskill out crops, Law
ing them down on the county map in
coloTs, and will continue this work through
Bradford and Susquehanna counties
Mr. chance has mapped the Delaware
and Lehigh Water Gaps, and constructed
sections through the roofing slate belt,
hydraulic lime and glass sand formations
hir. Hall, after arranging the cabinet of
fossils, examined fossil localities in West
moreland, Warren and Venango counties
and in the Juniata district, spent a month
with volunteer party of collectors on the
Lehigh and Delaware rivers.
The number of analyses called for bv
the assistants to illustrate their reports de-
manded an increase of force in the labora-
tory at Harrisburg. Mr. Ford has there
fore been employed as assistant, which
will double the capacity of the laboratory
for turning ont work.
RAILROAD LEVELS.
Mr.. Allen, attached to Mr. Frazer last
year, has been detailed for special service
viz the collection and arrangement of all
the railroad and canal levels in the state.
He will have for publication in the winter.
several thousand levels at fixed stations on
railroad, canal and turnpike lines This
is not only needful for the work of the sur
vey, but eXcites great interest among enci-
neers and surveyors. 1t is the intention to