The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-27
oLARENoE KING
He Presents His First Animal
Report.
Which Is Exclusively as to
Mines and Minerals.

| Washington, %. Clarence King
director of the United States geologics
sorVey, has completed his first annua
report 10 The secretary Of the interior.
1t outlines the organization. numerou,
| fields of work and present plans of this
newly-sstablishei buresu, embo3ies the
preliminary report of various staff Off
GERS, now engaged in active operations,
aud foreshsdows the com 5ilation during
toe coming winter of no less than twelve
volumes Of practical and general geology,
etc., as the results Of thu work already
accomplished during the one and q half
field seasons which haYe apsed since
Congress provided for the Organization
Of the survey. Among these volumes
will be deliberately practical. as we'll as
scientific, treAtises upon 1.-THE Precious
Metals,p by Clarence King; "Th@- %
ology a. Mining Industry of L. 800,
Colorado" by s. +. Emmons; "The
History of the Comstock Lode" By Eliot
Lord. he Geology of the Comsiock
Lode,n by g. f. Baker; 1.-THE Mechanical
Appliances used in Mining and Milling
on the Comstock Lode" by W. K.
Eckert, Geology Of the Eureka Mining
District, Nevada" By Arnold Hogue;b
Lesser Metals snd General Mineral
Resourses," by Raphael Pumpelly. I
nave go arranged the initial work OF the
survey that special volumes on he most
important geological subjects and mining
industries in the four western divisions
of the survey shall be brought to prompt
publication. There can hardly be two
opinions on the desirableness Of imme-
diately working out such problems in
these great districts which in their past
and present history offer examples of in
structive geological structure, and the
great bullion yield of which have required
OF mining menlspeclai mechanical skill,
and q large outlay Of capital. Proper
scient fic reports on such typical districts
become records Of remarkable pheno-
mena, in the field Of industrial geology,
and chronicles of distinguished sue
cess in the department Of mining en-
cheering. Among the great numbers
of mining districts which merit
rigid investigation, l have chosen
three, which more than others
seemed 20 Offer hsrVests Of technical in
formation, of which the mining popuia-
ton stands in immediate need. Lead
vile, the extraordinary district in Md
die Colorado, Eureka, New, which for
fifteen years has been the most productive
silver-le Il [ in America, and the
incompatible COu4 took lode are chosen
as the fret three districts TO be illustrated
by special monog apns.
Further on in this preliminary report
the director remarks that, although fore
most among the nations in the produe-
ton of precious metals, ranking first in
resources. of petroleum, coal and iron,
and abundantly endowed with nearly
every mineral substance demanded BY |
the civilized arts and sciences, the |
United States has conspicuously failed 10 |
gather and publish systematic statistical |
knowledge Of the mineral productions. |
He adds: 1t is estimated that the mere
raw product OF mineral industries do not |
fall far short of $500, 900, 600 annually, |
aud it requires no gift of extraordinary |
foresight to reach the conclusion that a |
few years will bring the yield to q thous-
aud millions. Until Congress extends |
the field of geological survey over the re-
zion east Of the Tooth meridian this |
bureau will confne its own operations in |
the department of mineral statistics, to |
the industries Of the far west. He says
an appropriation of$5O,000 per year will |
be sufficient to carry on all the work that |
is desirable over the whole United States, |
and submits that SO small sn appropria- |
lion as this would not be An excessive |
towards the development of |
80 vast field Of American enterprise.