The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-20
.APPING BELLE
!, F0URCHE COUNTRY
Reclamation Bureau Commences
e Work Preliminary to Irriga
ton Project.

From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Build,
ing, Washington.
Washington. May 20.-The reclama-
ton service is to do a great. deal Of
important work this season., thru the
topographic bureau Of the geological
survey. in and around Belle Fourche,
s. D.. preliminary to the construction
OF the Belle Fourche irrigation
project.
Incidentally. this work will furnish
the region for several hundreds Of
miles around Belle Fourche with a
splendid map which will show all
roads, detached houses, drainage
courses, outlines Of hills with eleva-
/ tons by contours, existing section
lines, and outlines of timber.
The manuscript for the map will be
1partiallyr made in the field this season,
under the direction Of r. III. Jaeger,
4 who will be- with the government
party as draughtsman.S The. work,
4 will be completed in Washington next
4 winter, so that the map may be photo
for distribution. It will be in three
4 icolors-blue for the drainage black
b for the houses. roads, names and gen
eraI agricultural features, and brown
4 for the h1lI contours.
n This work was petitioned for two
l years ago by business men In Belle
Fourche, who We're Endorsed by the
South Dakota delegation In congress-.
It was put under way last season.. and
this season 1t will be completed. so
far. as field work is concerned.
The! details for the topographic
work have all been laid out by q. M.
Douglas, topographer Of the geologi-
cal survey, and he has made all the
assignments. The party will be in
charge of William H. Heron, who last
season completed the survey Of 376
miles Of the Belle Fourche country,
or about one-half OF It. Chester
Irvine will be Mr.. Herron's assistant.
They will run 800 miles Of. level
lines and establish more than 100
bench mark posts, among other things,
They will survey on a scale Of 1000
feet to the inch nearly 200 square
miles of country adjacent to Belle
Fourche for the particular benefit of
the reclamation service. The remain
der Of the surveys will be on a scale
Of one mile to an inch.
The work will all be done In Law
renee, Meade and Butte counties, and
the area to be surveyed. includes 500
square miles north, and northeast of
Belle Fourche. 225 square miles south
Of St Onge, and the completion of
the Belte FOurche sheet proper,
amounting to. about 125 square miles.
Assisting Messrs. Heron and Irvine
will be J.. B.. Blackburn r., B. Rob-
ertson and G. H. Birdseye, all experts
Of the geological survey. After the
maps have been completed and print
ed, the reclamation service will be
able at once to take up the details
a Of the construction Of irrigation works
|, Mr.. Douglas informs T he Jour
a n g. correspondent that the geological
survey will, with the work of this
= season, finish the mapping Of the
q Black Hills country Of South Dakota,
. The maps which South Dakota has
a sent this year to theSSt. Louis expo.
n sition are all based on the govern.
d ment surveys .ssS .A
:. interesting fact that. HIS bureau has
completed the.asrsyey ffof2 sthea Devils
Tower region just over the South. Da.
kota line, In wyoming sperhap4 thirty
miles west Of Belle Fourche. ID
w. W. Jermane.