Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-06-18
GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION
Held a Meeting in DR.. /. C..
Whites Office.

Whites Office.
Work of the Past Year Reviewed ant
Plans for the Next Six Months
Adopted--New Surveys to be Made
Report on Coal to be ISSUED Shortly
New Map to be Published IncIud
ing Entire State Other Work Done
The State Geological Commission
which is an ex officio body consist
ing of the Hon. A. B. White; Hon
Peter Silman, State Treasurer, Hon
Abram McColloch, President of The
State Board of Agriculture; DR.. d
b. Purinton, President of the State
University; and Director Jas. II
Stewart Of the Experiment Station
held its Hrst meeting at the Office oil
DR.. /. G. White, the State Geologist.
all of the members being present.
The State Geologist submitted a
report OF the work ACCOMPLISHED
during the last six month, together
with a plan for the ensuing six
months, all of which was duly ap
proved and authorized. This plan
includes the extension of topograph-
&c surveys during this and next year
over all the counties along the Ohio
river not yet surveyed and eastward
from it to the region which the u. S.
G. Survey has already mapped on
the old or two mile scale This will
include the western end of Monon-
gala, the southern edge of Marshall,
all Of Wetzel, Tyler, Doddridge,
Richie, Writ, Calhoun, Roane, Jack
son, and Mason, and the portions of
Putnam, Clay, Wood, Harrison, and
Marion counties not yet covered by
the new Survey, so that when this
area is finished every county in the
state will have been mapped either
on the old or new scale. Ofcourse the
old scale map is very inferior and out
Of date, and the portion of the state
that does not vet have the accurate,
and modern new scale map will most
probably insist upon getting it be
fore the State goes out of the coop
erative survey business, in which
Uncle Sam pays half the expense Of
doing the work, and all of the cost
of engraving and publishing
The financial statement submitted
by the Chief Clerk, Mr. Ray V. Hen
men, was found to be correct and to
agree to the cent with the accounts
of the Treasurer OF the Commission
Hon Peter B. Silman.
Advance copies of DR.. Whites Re
port on Coal. Vol. IL, Of the Survey
series, were presented to the visiting
members of the Commission. This
volume of 725 pages giving full de-
scription OF all the coal beds of the
state, their chemical analysis, fuel
value and geological relations, to
gether with elevations above tide
along all the railroads and rivers of
the state, and much other valuable
data has Just been finished and now
is in the hands of the binders who
promise to have the first 1000 copies
ready for delivery by July lst.
The Commission fixed the price of
the volume at 81 go which includes
the cost of delivery (either by mail
or express) to the purchaser, and
orders may now be sent for it to the
office of the Survey here, which will
be filled in the order of their recep-
ton when the volume is published,
about two weeks hence.
The commission also authorized
the preparation and publication of
an entirely new geological map Of
the state on larger scale and more
accurate basis than the present one,
the last edition of which is nearly
exhausted and no more will be print
ed. The new map will be issued in
October of this year or Whereabouts,
and will show every railroad in the
state, all of the principal streams
the name and location of every coal
mine, the different areas in separate
colors, the oil and gas pools, anticli-
nal lines &c., and be sold at the
same price as the ole one, fifty cents.
The salary OF the assistant chemist
Ms. E. 5. Stalnaker, wrs increased
to $4,000 per month, and the state
eeologist was authorized to employ
any additional assistance necessary
within theiimited financial resources
OF the survey. The members of tue
Commission were gseatlv pleased
with the Coal Report, and the 1000
copies TO be published viii meet with
a ready sale, since many advance
orders are already on file. AS the
Commission is now permitted to use
fund received from the sales of pub
LEGATIONS in the preparation and pub
LEGATION of other reports, these pro-
ceeds will add materially to the f.
nancial resources of the Survey.
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