The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-11-27
COSTLY MAPS
GIVEN away
Many Geological Maps Can be Had
For the Mere Asking.
FOR THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Librarians Entitled to Sale Copies
Without Charge-GeologicaI Folios
Which Are of Interest to Miners,
Sell for rs Cents Each, but Mono.
graphs Are Higher.

That people in general do not take
advantage of their opportunities is a
truth as venerable as society itself.
A particular application of it is seen
in the fact that many who would be
benefited by study of the publica-
tons of the United States geological
survey do not apparently realize the
privileges to which they are entitled.
The government is at great expense
to maintain scientific bureaus the
chief ends of which are to increase
the sum of human knowledge and
to inform the people of the United
States OF the practical results of the
Investigations made. Every means is
taken to give the public the widest
possible benefit of the discoveries
and inventions of science. Large
sums of money are annually expend-
ed in printing maps, foiios, papers,
bulletins, monographs, and scientific
reports of one kind and another, the
great majority of which are intended
for general and gratuitous distribu-
ton.
Many of the publications of the
survey are of special interest to in
habitants of particular localities and
should have wide circulation in the
areas they concern. To further this
end it seems advisable to call the at
tention of librarians throughout the
country to a congressional act ap-
proved March 3, 1908. which provides
that "the director of the geological
survey shall hereafter distribute to
public libraries that have not already
| received them such copies of sale
| publications as may remain on hand
at the expiration Of five years after
date of delivery to the survey docu-
ment room, except reserve which
shall not exceed two hundred copies"
The topographic maps are sold at
| the rate of five cents sheet of
standard size For 100 or more in
| one order, whe her of the same sheet
or of different sheets. the price is
| two cents sheet for the standard
| size. Special maps and those Of lar
| ger size are sold at proportionate
rates and on the same conditions of
| discount. Prepayment is required,
and may be made by money order
payable to the order OF the director
of the Uniter States geological survey
or in cash-the exact amount. Checks
and postage stamps cannot be accep-
| ted.
! Geologic folios are usually twenty
| five cents piece. although ten of
those issued have on account of spe-
cially elaborate map work sold for
| fifty cents. Only one, the geologic
folio that treats of the Yellowstone
park sells for seventy-five cents.
These folios should be of interest to
miners, prospectors, and land own
ers. and especially to teachers OF ge-
ography or geology, and it is expect
ed that there will be growing de-
mand for their use in schools.
Monographs range in price from
eighty cents to eleven dollars, the
average price being two dollars. The
edition of one Of the most elaborate,
ten dollar volume, has been ex-
hausted. It was the work of Captain
G. f. Dutton mad was entitled ''The
Tertiary History of the Grand Can
yon of Colorado" The subject ma
turally permitted great elaboration
and great perfection of detail in the
way of illustration, and these feat
ures brought up the price of the mon.
ograph
| Full circulars descriptive of the
publications and maps of the geolog.
ical survey can be obtained on appli-
cation to the director. at Washington
D. c.