The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-22
ARREST FORMER OFFICIAL ON SUSPICION OF MURDER
Geological Suruey Ciues
 Out Detailed Program on
 Work for Current SeasOr,

The Interior Department an nounces that plans for the field projects to be undertaken in Alaska by the Geological Survey this sea son have now reached an advanced stage and the several parties vii. start for the field during this month.
 By far the most intensive work that will be done by the Geolo- gical Survey in Alaska this season will be that financed by the special appropriation for research along the Alaska Railroad and directed toward the examination of mineral deposits contiguous to the railroad that may contribute to its revenues by furnishing tonnage.
 Nine Parties Used
 Nine separate parties will be as- signed to this work. Most of them will be stationed in mining camps from one end of the railroad to the other-Fairbanks, Kantishna Copper Mountain, Valdez Creek Chulitna, Willow Creek, Anthracite Ridge, Girdwood and Moose Pass but one party will carry on certain general studies throughout the tract adjacent to the railroad. Di- rect supervision of all these prof ects has been assigned to s. R Capps, whose long service in the Geological Surveys Alaska work and whose personal familiarity with most of the mining camps near the railroad make him es- pecially fitted to conduct and di- rect the work.
 Geologists will be assigned to all these projects, but the personnel of different parties will vary great ly, as it will be determined by the individual requirements of the spe- cific job. Thus, in the Kantishna, Copper Mountain, Anthracite Ridge and Girdwood areas, where ade- quate maps for plating the geo. logic information are not available the parties will be accompanied by topographic engineers and other personnel needed to make the es- sential maps. In certain projects, as at Anthracite Ridge, consider ble test pitting and other manual work will be required, which will call for the services of a number of laborers. Some of the parties will maintain their own camps, and others will be able to obtain accommodations for much of the time at the mines or in the set- dement's.
 Thus the work near Fairbanks will be conducted mainly from that town as a base, whereas the parties in the Kantishna. Copper Mountain, Valdez ek-Chulitna and Anthracite Ridge districts will maintain camps supplied by pack trains. Although each region pre- sents different problems, the work of supplying as much information in each will have the common aim as possible in answer to the ques- ton, What quantity of mineral products appears to be available that might swell the railroads bus iness?"
 Other Work Planned
 The Alaska projects that will be financed by funds appropriated di- rectly for Geological Survey inves- tigations as distinguished from those carried on for the Alaska Railroad are eight in number and are dis tributed geographically as follows: Topographic mapping near Wran- gell, in southeastern Alaska; m.n- ing investigations in southeastern Alaska; general investigations in the vicinity of Glacier Bay; topo- graphic mapping in the Klutina Lake region of the Copper River Basin; geologic investigations in the headwater portions of the Cop per River Valley; general studies in the western part of the tract between the Yukon and Panama Rivers; geologic and topographic exploration and reconnaissance sur- vey of the Tikchik Lake region north of Bristol Bay; and general field studies of mineral resources.
 The work in the Wrangell dis trict will be a continuation of that undertaken as an outcome Of the two aerial photographic expeditions of the Navy Department in 1925 and 1929, whereby photographs of practically the entire panhandle Of southeastern Alaska were ma d e. The general program for this ma jor project requires as a first step working up the photographs in the office so as to prepare drainage maps of the country. These drain age maps are then used in the field by a topographer as a base on which to show the height Of the hills, valleys. and other natural features, so as to produce con- plete topographic map. The field work on this project this season will be done in the vicinity of Wrangell and will carry northward the topographic surveys that were completed in the neighborhood of Ketchikan, assisted by V. s. Seward, and it is expected that the party