The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-06-08
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
Glimpse at the Work, in Progress in Ma
ryIand.

ryland.
The Maryland Geological Survey
has formulated plans for the coming
field season, and several parties are
already engagedsin geological work.
The Investigations embrace not only
geology, but its allied subjects rela-
ting to the economic resources of the
State of Maryland.
Geological work will be carried on
in various lines in the four sections
of the, state-in Western, Central,
Southern and Eastern Maryland
and will be in charge of Prof w. B.
Clark, state geologist, and the several
chiefs of division who are working in
Maryland The topographic survey
preeedes and is regarded as sfnnda-
mental to the detailed geological work
which is in progress. This phrase is
carried on in close association with
the United States geological survey,
the expense of the Topographic work
being divided between the state and
national surveys. This work is in
charge Of Mr.. II. NJ. Wilson, who has
placed in the field Mr.. w. Carvel Hall
as chief of party. He will have sew
6ral tOpographers associated with
him, and win carry on the work
around the head of Chesapeake Bay
in Hartford, Cecil and Kent counties,
as well as in portions of Garrett and
Washington counties. 1t is the plan
Of the survey to have ready for publ
cation during the present year large
topographic wall maps Of Allegany,
Garrett, Cecil and Kent counties.
Portions of this work were completed
last year.
IN Western Maryland Professor G..
:. Prosser is i'll charge of the geologi-
cal work, and associated with him
Messrs. r. b. Rowe and \. p. Romine.
who have already commenced work
in the Georges Creek Valley, in con
tinuation of the Investigations which
were started in that area last year.
DIR. Cleveland Able, Jr., will be asso-
ciated with Professor Prosser i'll the
study of the photography of the
western counties.
The work in terrestrial magnetism,
which has already proved of so much
benefit to the surveyors in the coun-
ties, is under the direction of DR.. L..
4. Bauer, who is now engaged in
work in Allegany and Garrett coun-
ties. DR.. Bauer, is also at work pre-
pairing his final reports on the survey
OF the western boundary and the
Allegany-Garrett lines.
The Maryland Geological Survey
has recently secured the cooperation
of the United States Department of
Forestry, as we'll as of the United
States Biological Survey, and the dis
tributiOn of the forests and of the
plants and animals of the state will
also be studied in conjunction with
these bureaus. The work proposed
is of such nature that it can be car
RED on contemporaneOusly with the
geological work, and with very small
expense to the state survey, while
the economic results will be of much
Importance. Already such work has
been inaugurated in the western sec
tion of the state.
The state survey has already in
preparation the manuscript for two
volumes which will appear during
the present year, and will constitute
ii. and ~. of the state survey series.
Volume III. will relate to road ma
terials, and will contain chapters by
Messrs. Clark, Reid, johnson, Slous-
sat and others regarding highway
construction. Volume ". will relate
largely to Western Maryland, and will
open with an important contribution
by Mr.. Bailey Willis, assistant direc-
tor of the United States Geological
Survey, who is the leading authority
upon the Appalachian Mountain re-
gion, and who has spent some time
this present spring in going over the
Appalachian district in Maryland.
This article will be succeeded bv the
reports of DR.. Bauer ON the western
boundary and Allegany-Garrett lines.
This will be followed by the report
on Allegany county, the first of the
county reports. 1t will be accom-
panied by the large scaled topogra-
phic map of the county ON a scale of
one mile to the inch, upon which the
boundaries of the several formations
will be plated. There will be chap
ters upon the iclimatology, physi-
Ography, photography, terrestrial
magnetism, geology, mineral re
sources, forestry, flora and fauna of
the county.
Life and Death Fight.
Mr. w. A. Hines, of Manchester.
Ia, writing of his almost miraculous