Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-13

An account of the work done by the United States Geological Srvey, in the several States of the Union, during the last fiscal year-July l, 1904 to July l, 1905--is given in the twenty sixth annual report of the Director, which has recently come from the press.
 New Mexico.
 In New Mexico, PAT square miles of new area were topographically sur veyed during the last fiscal year, 136 miles of levels were run, and 30 bench marks were established. The work done was on the Socorro quadrangle under the direction of Mir. R. H. Chap man. The resulting map will be drawn on a scale of 1:62 2,500, with a contour interval of 50 feet.
 During the winter of 1904-5, Mir. Chapman measured and expanded a base at San Antonio, a few miles south of Socorro, for the control of the Gila River and proposed reserve From this base triangulation was extended northward so as to connect With the astronomic pier at Albuquerque and with points locat- ed in 1S86-7 from the Wingate base dSIlOHOu1lC SIdllOu. olAlSSn SId- tions were occupied and 15 points were located by intersections. but ow- ing to extremely unfavorable condi- tions final observations could not be obtained. AZimuth observations were made at the North base and a check azimuth was observed at Socorro Peak.
 Two areas proposed for the forest reserves were examined by Mir. T. F. Rixon. One included the mountains southeast of Albuquerque and the other the mountains north of and ad- joining the Pecos River Reserve.
 Coal mines in New Mexico were wis tied by MT. M. R. Campbell as a mem Der of the committee to conduct coal tests at the Louisiana Purchase Expo- sition.
 A brief report on the zuni salt deposits of New Mexico was written by MT. N. H. Darton for the annual economic bulletin.
 Several hydrographic stations on the Rio Grande were maintained by MT. w. w. Folett, consulting engineer of the International (Water) Boundary Commissary, and the results were furnished to the Survey for publica-
 
 charge of the work in the northern part of the Territory. with headquar- ters at Denver, Colo, and MT. J. NJ. Giles was in charge of the work in the southern part of the Territory with headquarters at Carlsbad, N. Mex. Stream-gaging stations were main tained at Aztec, Pennington, Logan, Las Vegas Hot Springs, Cliff, Main Street Bridge and Reservoir site in Roswell, Lacueva, Weber, Santa Rosa, Carlsbad, Roswell, Fort Summer, Rio Grande, San Marcial, Alma, Los Ala mos, and near Logan .... .s-..
 Considerable progress was made in various parts of New Mexico in extend ing our knowledge of the distribution and relations of the underground wa ter supplies. The greater part of the work done was by Mir. W. T. Lee, who made investigations in the vicin- ity of Las Cruces, Albuquerque, and other places in the Rio Grande Valley. MT. Lee also examined the Staked Plains region about Portales, to ascer- tain the extent of the territory in which artesian flows may be expected. Mir. c. A. Fisher prepared and trans mitted for publication a report on his investigation of the underground wa ters of the Pecos valley, in the geol- ogy and underground waters of the Jornada del Muerto, by Mir c. R. Reyes, was sent to the printer during the year.
 Various reclamation projects have been suggested for New Mexico. Pre- H