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Show J'llOFKSSOR IIaVDU-Vk L'l.'ttViTH. CuugroHtt having appropriated $75,000, an our CBfltcrn exchanges say, for the continuation of the United Slates get-logieil get-logieil fcurvcy by profiler llaydm, tho profesHor propose, owing to the hostility of tho Indians in the northwest north-west and tho great expenses of transportation trans-portation and subsistence, to change his field of labor to the eastern portion of the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado and New Mexico, making the latitude of 4oi degrees his northern limit, the cast bank of the Green and Colorado rivers his western limit, and extending southward to the boundary line of the ' United States. It will bo seen by reference to the map that this survey ' takes in all of that almost unknown ' country, western Colorado, and includes ' a portion of eastern Utah, together with nearly the whole of Arizona and New Mexico. In view of the proposed s railroads from tho oast through these : regionB, this proposed survey for tho , coming summer is full of CBpccial in- tercst to the people of Utah, Mr. J. i T. Gardiner, formerly with Mr. Clai-3 Clai-3 euce King, has been appointed chief 1 topographer to tho present expedition, 3 and a most complete improved map of ) tho country traversed may be expected 1 from him. |