The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-12-19


square miles, depending upon scale
and location. On these maps are
shown all the roads, railroads.
trails, towns, postoffices, houses,
streams, lakes and marshes, as well
as the section and township lines
where they exist, and the elevation
is also shown by means of contour
lines at intervals of 20, so or 100
feet. according to conaitions.
"Tn order to develop and settle the
vast unoccupied areas, it is necessary
that the state should have at the
earliest date possible map to
show the settler what the country is
like and indicate the practicable
railroad routes as well as to indicate
the possibility of retaining the
arid regions by irrigation.
"That the reclamation service has
been able to accomplish so much in
the short time since its organization
is due largely to the fact that topo-
graphic maps of a very large area
of the country to be irrigated, were
already in existence.
"The federal government has been
liberal in its appropriation for topo-
graphic surveys and for investiga-
lions of the water supply, but the
time has now come when it would
be advantageous and profitable for
the state of Washington to appro-
pirate funds for cooperation with
the U. S. geological survey, both in
order to expedite the mapping of
its unsurveyed areas and investiga-
ton of its water supply.
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
Connecticut are entirely mapped
and have been for some years. This
was accomplished by the states CO.
operating with the United States
geological survey; that is, the state
appropriated certain sum of money
to be expended by the geological
survey in making a Typographical
map, provided that the geological
survey expended an equal amount
within the state, the mapping be-
ing done by the geological survey in
accordance with an agreement enter
ed into with the state.
"Many other states have seen the
| advantage of this arrangement and
have been quick to avail themselves
of it, the following sums having al
ready been appropriated for cooper
Grafton by the states named: Ala
! bama, $4,000; Michigan, $4,000; IL
! linois. 10000; Kentucky, 800;
Maine. SIS, 700; Maryland, 100000
New York 100000: North Caro-
lima, $4,000; Ohio, $4,000
Pennsylvania, $4,000; West Vir
ginia, 100000; Oklahoma, $4,000;
California, 100000.
"These amounts were appropriate
ed annually in sums varying from
$4,000 to $4,000. No better argu
ment can be offered in favor of CO.
operating with the United States geo
logical survey to expedite the map
ping of the state of Washington
| than the above figures.
Before any enterprise of consid
erabldmagnitude can be underta-
ken, be it mining, irrigation, railroad
or road building. water supply TO,
power or city purposes, it is neces
sary that a map should be made
and before the water in the streams
| can be made use of to the best pur.
pose it is necessary that the amount
of water available be determined. II
/ is impossible to acquire the neces
sary information in regard to water
supply from one years stream gaug-
ing On the contrary, observations
over a series of years must be made
before any reliable conclusions can
be reached as regards the available
water supply.
"The federal government has
made and will continue to make lib
eral appropriations for topographic
and photographic surveys, and il
rests with the legislature of the
western states whether they will
avail themselves of cooperation and
secure, by making appropriations, a
considerably larger amount of those
funds expended within their states
in this very necessary work.
"Will the state of Washington APP
preciate the fact that the mapping OF
the country and the securing of ac-
curate information in regard to the
available water supply is absolutely
essential to its rapid development
and at the coming legislature appro-
pirate $4,000. that is $4,000 to be
expended annually, $4,000 for CO.