Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-25

VationS are marked with one set OF lines.
| one to every % feet, 50 accurately that a;
a glance at the map the most unlearned
| observer can see exactly how high every
knoll on the face of the plot is. The de
| pressions are marked with different lines.
| The roads are shown and the streams.
and there are exhaustive notes on the
condition of the country.
"tse?" The uses are many. In the
first place there is the advantage to the
study Of our national geology When the
maps are completed the biologists at
Washington take them and work in on
the notes Of the formations found in the
various sections covered by the survey.
Then, the surveyors report in the map
on the condition of the country. showing
what is good land. what bad, what is ii;
for future cultivation, what is dying ou.,
where the forests are growing. where
they are going the other way, what vii.
In a few years be denuded. where there
is an opportunity for increase, and where
pasturing ana hay can be found.
That is commercial reason and is
destined TO play an important part IN
the development of many sections of thu
couLtry. Then there il another phase to
done any man can send for maps OF n
part Of the country he may wish to set
tie or invest in and can find out exactly
what conditions he is going to meet there
that he is familiar with the locality
before ever he strikes the section in per
son.
The maps are for sale when they are
donc,-at five cents apiece, and can be
had by merely addressing a note To the
director Of the geological survey. Wash
ington. Each map measures - inches
square ana is printed on heavy paper.
The Bucksport party will next week be .
gin the work OF surveying for the Orland
map. as 1t is to be called, working in the
Is miles square tract east of Bucksport-
| After that the Bangor map Will be begun
early in October. with headquarters In that
| city Work will be continued up TO cold
weather, and will be taken up again 50
soon the condition of the roads in 1860
| makes that possible.
| The Bangor map will include the coun-
| try a little more than a dozen miles north
OF the city and west and east proportion
ately that city being in the extreme low
er portion.
i Bank Examiner +. T.. Timberlake com :
pleted the examination Of the Aroostook
county savings banks. last week.
Some of the State papers are joking the
Bangor Commercial upon the new title
| that il has given Commissioner Mat
thews. While the genial commissioner
was in Bangor. one day last week, he
was interviewed by the Commercial on
the condition of the State he finds it,.
(, He told them that there was quite an
| amount of building, both of business es-
| Establishments and of summer resort cot :
| tages, this year, and that he had noticed
| no signs of mushroom booms anywhere,
| all being as he believes of solid substan-
tal growth as everyone wishes to see in
| Maine. In the account of the interview
the Commercial told of its meeting col +
| onel' Matthews.
| However that is not the first time that
the mistake has been made for many PEG
pie persist in calling the commissioner a
| colonel in spite of his protests that he is
| not entitled to it,
The following company, Monday, filed 4
| certificate of Incorporation:
| Eastern Challenge Windmill Company
| organized at Portland for the purpose OF
| manufacturing and dealing in windmills.
| towers and tanks. with 5000 capital
| stock OF which $500 is paid in. The OH
| GERS are: President. George W. fliZ u
| Hamilton, Mass: treasurer. }. e. Waru
| Of Portland, Me. Certlhcate approved,
| July q, 1899
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