Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-08-31
q WONDERFUL MAP.
ajnele Sans Monster Plat W''' DC '"'
Biggest Ever Made.


Biqaest Ever Made.
More progress than ever VIII DO
modo this year on the great map VI
tho country which shows all the sur
COCO forms of the land, every haihiet
ond every house except where houses
stond closely together In towns ana
cities. New sheets will be maze inns
season in thirty-one states ana ioui
territories. Survey parties are III 'ne
cold and the work Is being vigorously
pushed. oh
No country has ever made sucn
rapid progress with It's topographica,
surveys. area for area, as the uni'eu
states. Only a little more thah
tb,rd Of our territory is yet surveyed
for the purpose of the big map put
This is merely because our lana sur
face. including Alaska, Is nearly n9
large as the whole of Europe 10
make as good map Of our domain al
that which we can now buy OF nearly
tha whole of Europe we shall have 10
do nearly as much surveying as all
the European powers have done 10
cether. Only four of our states-Mas-
sachusetts. Rhode Island, Connecticut
and New Jersey-have so far Deei
completely mapped, but the maps OF
sovaral other states will soon be mn
ished. .,o.
The mans of these states In when
tho national survey Is being carrleu
on with the largest amount OF state
co.operation will make the most rapid
nroaress. Thus in Ohio, which con-
I tr,butes very literally In trained men
y and money to the topographic WORK
j On the state, 1t is expected that thir'
= teen more map sheets will be com
Melted or far advanced by the END Oh
the present season.
The Fairbanks region along the mia
die Tanana river, Alaska, where inan'
hundreds of miners are working III lli'
u nlacer fields, is being surveyed IN oe
V tail. and a map of 1t on scaie OF
mile TO nm inch will be published mex
winter The survey for map on IN
" same large scale Of the Kasaan PENN
:. ula. Oh Prince Of Wales lslahu'
!. ,outheast Alaska, Is also being maut
~ A large region spreading east ana Yves
between the Yukon and Tanana rivers
~ from the international boundary hea
y dawson 70 Fairbanks, will also be SUI
vowed for a map on half that scai'
Less than half of Alaska is as yet CO..
:, cred even by preliminary recohnoi
VI, sance surveys. and it is gratifying I'M
'u such considerable additions are 70
made this wear to the detailed surve!
30 for maps on a scale large enough
give us a clear geographical picture
- these areas.
u" The United States geological surv'
for several years past has annually
ny ora yed about $4,000 miles Of complete
'us Topographic surveying The bullet
"a of the American Geographlcai socie
'eu recently said that this is equal 10 [
e-' annual mapping Of a state nearly I
'n size of Indiana and greater than Nal
% or South Carolina. 1t Is an area neal
I'm aou,I TO that of Portugal and as gre
as that Of Switzerland ana Dehma
combined. Yet 1t is scarcely one OF
hnndredth of the total area OF the III
los" Oh States. inclusive Of Alaska. l
ous average appropriation for these to-
. ,n graphic surveys is about s35o'ooo, a
tne the cost for several years has averae
neu about $40 a square mile, excepting
gu states where more detailed WORK
done-NeW York Sun.