Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-11-10
TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF
GRANTS PASS Quadrangle
Shows Every Landscape + eature e
Valuable Map For Miners
and Others.

The field work for the Grants Pass
quadrangle was completed last week
when ]. |. Gayetty completed his
work near Kerby. Saturday Mr..
Gsyetty arrived in Grants Pass and
paid Off his crew, Tuesday lie shipped
his equipment to Sacramento, which
is the headquarters for the United
States geological survey work for the
Pacific Coast. He left himself for
Sacramento, Wednesday, accompanied
by Mrs Gayetty, who has been in
Grants Pass the last four months
while Mr.. Gayetty has made this
city his headquarters. As to whether
he would be sent to Arizona to do
field work or assigned to Office work
at Sacramento or in Washington for
the winter Mr.. Gayetty did not know.
Unless special work demands it. it
is the rule for the iopographers Of
the geological survey to plat up their
work during tn, Winter months that
they have done during the previous
Summer.
The Grants Pass quadrangle covers
half degree of latitude and half a
degree of longitude and embraces
almost 800 square miles Of territory,
extending north from the California
line, and Of which Grants Pass is the
center. the field work on this quad
rangle was begun last year, when a
party of levelmen took the height Of
all important elevation, and another
party, called traversemen, plated all
the railroads, wagon roads and trails.
This spring six other parties took the
field, each composed Of topographer
aud his assistants, and they com
pleted the typographical data. The
entire notes and plats made by these
eight parties has been sent to Wash.
ington where they will be used in
getting up a Typographical map Of
Southern Oregon.
This map will show all water
courses from rivers TO the smallest
ravines, lakes, canals and bitches, all
elevations from the lowest hill to the
highest mountains. The surface fea-
lures will show the heavy timber, open
mber, brush land. prairies, plains,
swamps, farm, etc, and railroads,
wagon roads, trails, towns, farm
houses, school houses and other
isolated buildings. Mines, tunnels,
bridges will be given, in fact every
important landscape fea ure will be
shown. These maps are gotten out by
the United States geological survey
department and are for the use Of the
government, but especially for the
war department and for the land and
forestry bureaus and for the geologi-
cal and mineraloRical surveys. These
maps are sold to private individuals
at cents each. 1t will be about a
year before the map Of the Grants
Pass quadrangle is ready for publica.
tion and distribution.
This geographical survey is one Of
the big undertakings Of the general
government and it was begun more
than 30 years ago and will continue
until all sections of the United S ates
aud of Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico,
Philippines, Guam, Tuitilia and all
ther lands under American control
have been surveyed. Only small
part of Oregon has been surveyed, the
most important sections now being
plated and the other quadrang les
Will be made up from year to year as
the work can be executed
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