The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-20
OF SURVEYS ARE
 POINTED OUT

The vigorous prosecution or Coast and Geodetic Survey activities in the Territory, establishment of a first class seismological station at Sitka in connection with earthquake investigations and purchase of a supply base at Dutch Harbor, are features of the annual report of Col +. Lester Jones, Director of the Bureau, in his annual report to the Secretary of Commerce This is em- bodied in the report of Secretary Hoover just made public.
 The Coast and Geodetic Survey has maintained an observatory at Sitka since 1902 and it is proposed to make it one of two new sefsmo. graphical station to be equipped shortly. The other station proposed is at Tucson, Ariz.
 Haste Is Required
 Director Jones emphasizes the i'm portance of accurate charts and maps of Alaska and it's waters His reports follows in part:
 "The work being done in Alaska by the Coast and Geodetic Survey should receive all possible support, as Alaska is entirely dependent upon water-borne transportation for it's connection with the outside world, and adequate charts are needed to protect the lives and property enter ing and leaving the Territory.
 Many of the present charts are mere adaptations from the work of earlier explorers and navigators. The policy of the Coast and Geodetic Survey is to expedite the surveys as funds are available.
 "The much needed wire-drag sur veys should be pushed with all pos sible haste. ..
 "Three vessels have recently been transferred to the Coast and Geo. detic Survey by the Navy Depart ment. These vessels were built for mine-sweeping duty by the Navy and two of them already have been al tered to make them suitable for sur veying work. These new vessels, on account of their size, power, etc, will help materially in expediting the charting of the Territory's waters.
 "In the past, scattering surveys have been made in the strenuous eff fort to meet the needs of commerce, but the industries have far out stripped the progress of these sur veys, wholly through lack of suffi- cient personnel and equipment with which to keep pace.
 ''The rapid development of Alaska along commercial lines is well il- lustrated by the growing number of requests for surveys and for infor- nation pertaining to areas where sites for proposed industries have been newly selected.
 Control Surveys Begun
 'For some time one of the most urgent needs in Alaska surveys has been a system of control which would connect and coordinate the scattered Photographic, topographic, and cadastral surveys of the Terri tory. Such control surveys were es- pecially needed in preparing navi- gation charts in coastal Alaska and in placing upon a proper datum the many scattered surveys in the In- terior river valleys. , .l.
 "The report of the Governor of Alaska for 1921 mentioned the pro- posed extension, in cooperation with Canada, of an arc of precise tri- angulation from Puget Sound through southeast Alaska and Emma Harbor Providence Bay) and Whelan (East Cape) in Siberia. This work has great value for two reasons It connected the magnetic work of the Amundsen expedition with previous magnetic work in Alaska; it pro- vided values of the magnetic declin- ation in Alaska at places where our previous knowledge was very in definite, and accordingly, makes it possible to provide more accurate magnetic information on the charts of Boring Sea and the Arctic. The results brought out, also, the great need of a real magnetic survey in the Interior of Alaska. The present situation of magnetic stations, ex- isting only along the main lines of travel, leaves vast areas without ob- servations of any kind. Observations