The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-08-12

season and Mr. Fagen's observations off,
iron and zinc ores. Nj. Platt has also g.,
perintended Mr.. Young's statiscal st,ryo,:
of the coke field of the Youghioghenv w
ley from Connelsville to Pittsburg, much
to the satisfaction ofthe people. This will
make an important report.
Professor Stevenson and Mr.. White b,r,
surveyed Greene county and made a com
plete section of 800 feet of coal measure.
rocks above the upper coal beds, locatinr
on the map the depth of the larger coal
beds beneath the surface at the priucinol
cross roads. They have discovered and Ioca
ted across the country two anticlinals and
two synclinals, and made the geology Der,
fectly plain. The rest of the season they
will surrey Washington county.
Mr. CARL continued his observations At
intervals all winter and has secentlv bccn
reinforced by Mr. Hale, who with Mr.
Hatch, is surveying carefully the outcron
of the Berea 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. Tiora
county, the Mansfield ore bed, red beds
fish beds, and the Catskill outcrops, LAYING
them down on the county map in colors
and will continue this work through Brad.
ford 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
Mr. Hall after arranging the cabinet of
fossils, examined fossil localities in West
moreland, Warren and Venango counties
and in the Juniata district, spent month
with volunteer party of collectors on the
Lehigh and Delaware rivers.
The number of analyses called for by 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 out 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 survey
but excites great interest among engineers
and surveyors. 1t is the intention to in
clude in the list, alphabetically arranged,
all stations leveled by the survey corps.
PRICES OF THE REPORTS.
At this meeting of the board the price of
DR.. Genths report on the Mincrology of
Pennsylvania, 2O6 pages, vo, with topo-
graphical map, was fixed at fifty cents in
paper cover and the postage is sixteen cents,
and the price of Henry E. Wrigley' special
report on the Petroleum Of Pennsylvania,
its production, transportation, manufacture
: and statistics, l12 pages, 0vo., with several
maps and Illustration, at - cents in paper
cover and the postage is twelve cents
Bound copies of either are p cents more
and % cents postage. The law requires
that these reports be sold and the commits
sioners cannot distribute them gratuitousIy
The books arc handsomely printed and
unlike the generally unwicldly volumes of
-. geological surveys, they are of a very con-
venient, hand y size, printed on good paper,
in clear type, and the workmanship reflects
credit on the state printer. They are
stereotyped, SO that editions can be pub
5 lished at any time to meet the demand.
e Each of these district reports is complete
( in itself, and is indcxed with unusual full
t ness each is sold separately, and persons
" who get them as they come out can have
them bound up in volumes. This is a new
e and excellent feature of this survey, as there
are really no preliminary reports to be
n thrown aside and superseded by a final re-
d port These reports are in themselves final.
e The sum of the published reports this year
r of the work of 1874 will amount to about
S 200 pages, exclusive of Prof Lcslcys. He
T has been obliged to do much drawing and
finishing to secure the best appearance for
the books, and great deal of correcting
i amplifying and appcnding to make the
# statement of each district full and clear IL
! the reader and useful to the field worker
O Much inquiry has been made for the
r geological reports, but the work Of publ
# cation is, in fact, much more advanced than
IS was ever the case with any other geological
survey in the same time. There is no qucs
tion but the general result will be satislac
0 tory to the people of the state and scientific
world
9 Orders accompanied by the money, sent
= to John b. Pears, secretary of the geology
I cal commission, 223 Market street, Harris
0 burg, Pa, will be filed by mail or express
as directed, or the reports can be .obtaincC
through booksellers