The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-08-21
MINING AND
WATER REPORTS
A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT bull
LETINS BEARING ON A LARGE
AGRA WHICH MAY BE HAD
FROM GOVERNMENT SOURCE.

resources of the country. The re-
suits of these Investigations appear
in published form and are always
available to the public through the
publications of the survey.
Arrangements nave recently been
made whereby all publications per-
tanning TO the Pacific northwest are
placed for sale and distributed at
the district engineers Office in Port
land, Oregon, 209 Tilford building.
The publications of the survey con-
sist of bulletins, water supply pa
pers, professional papers, mineral
resources, topographic atlas sheets
or q~uadrangles and geological folios.
The topographic sheets and geologic
folios are sold at cost. The other
publications are distributed free. A
limited number of each publication
are retained by the geological survey
for direct distribution. A certain
number are delivered to represen-
tatives and senators in congress for
distribution. A certain number are
deposited with the superintendent Of
documents in Washington, d. c.,
HUH WllOnl llCy oil NC Pui thufSu
at a. nominal price. Copies of all
publications are furnished the prin-
cipal libraries throughout the coun-
try where they can be consulted by
those interested.
Topographic Maps and Geologic
FOliOs. The topographic atlas sheet
and geologic folios are sold at cost
of publication, the Topographic sheets
at ) cents each, or $500 per hun
dred, and the geological folios for
25 cents each with a discount of 40
per cent on an order of "a or more
folios. To the present time there
have been completed in Oregon, IT
atlas sheets and 8 geological folios;
in Washington % atlas sheets and
4 folios; in Idaho II atlas sheets
and 3 folios; in Nevada 10 atlas
sheets and one fodio; in California
112 atlas sheets and Fl folios, be-
sides a large number of special
sheets. All the atlas sheets and
folios in Oregon and Washington,
and Washington, Idaho, Montana
and northern California and Nevada
are on sale in the Portland office of
the U. S. geological survey. Orders
for sheets and folios in other states
will be referred to the office at WASH
ington, d. G. Index maps showing
the areas in each state mapped to
late will be furnished upon applica-
ton.
Mineral Resources. The public
alton of the division of Mining ana
mineral appear in the
form of bulletin. Those in hand for
distribution are as follows:
Bulletin 341, chapte r B and c con-
tain results of the Investigations OF
the coal fields of Wyoming, Colo
RADIO, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon and
Virginia in 1907.
Bulletin 336. Geology of Great
Falls coal field. Montana.
Bulletin $40. The fire resistive
properties of various building ma
tePials.
Bulletin :s73. Smokeless com
bustion of coal in boiler plants, with
a chapter on central heating plants.
Bulletin 374. Mineral resources of
the Kotsina-Chitina region, Alaska.
Bulletin 315. The forty-mile
quadrangle. Yukon-Tonana region
Alaska.
Bulletin 376. Peat deposits of
Maine.
Bulletin 37S. Results of purchas-
ing coal under government specific
lions.
Bulletin 379. Chapter B to F in
elusive. Mineral of Alaska.
This is a report of the progress of
Investigations in 1908 and contain
the results of studies of the mineral
of this very interesting
territory, sub-divided as follows:
Chapter B treats of southeastern
Alaska; chapter G, Prince William
Sound, Kenai Peninsula. southwest
ern Alaska; chapter D, Copper River
region, chapter E.. Fairbanks, Yukon
Tanana, and lower Yukon regions;
chapter F, Seward Peninsula.
Bulletin $50. Contributions to
economic geology in 1908. The fol
lowing advance chapters have been
received to date. A gold and silver,
b. Investigations relating to copper,
G. Investigations relating to lead
and zinc, E. Investigations relating
to iron and manganese, HI. Investi-
cations relating to asphalt. J.. In
vestigations relating TO cement and
concreo materials, l.. Investiga-
tions relating to salines.
There are also in hand two adj