Show The Geological Surrey We take pleasure innnouncing that a branch office of the Geological Survey has been opened in this city Our readers will probably remember that Congress more than a year ago eflected a reorganization of the geological geo-logical work under the auspices of the government The surveys of the interior in-terior department conducted by Major Powell and Dr Hayden and the survey of the war department conducted by Captain Wheeler were discontinued and in place of them there was established a single United States Geological Survey The office of director of the Geological Survey was created and it was provided pro-vided that it should be filled bv ex ecutive appointment Mr Clarence King who baa won distinction not only as chief of the fortieth parallel survey but ee a mining expert received re-ceived the appointment and a corps of geologists was organized In the subdivision of the work the division of the Great Basin a broad district extending ex-tending from the Wasatch to the Sierra Nevada was assigned to Mr G F Backer and Mr G K Gilbert Mr Becker deveting himself exclusively to mining and other economic matters and Mr Gilbert to problems of general gene-ral or tbeocratic geology It is Mr Gilberts corps which has established itself here The redwood house on North Temple street near the depot baa been hired ana is being fitted up and here the gentlemen 01 the corps will prepare the reports and maps by means of which the results i of their summers work are to be published It is i not intended that the occupation of the office shall be a matter of a few months only but in this building or some other it i is intended in-tended to maintain a permanent base of operations in this city Already avery a-very respectable nucleus for a scientific scien-tific library has been brought together and the half ton of geological specimens speci-mens that lie in boxes awaiting shelf room almost justify the assertion that a new museum is about to be established estab-lished |