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Show Dl BLlGll MUCH ATTjf Experts of Geologifjfe Are Assigned tdjWjjji State's ResouSf COAL LAND flffd Metal Districts Part of State W Examined, 8 Tho investigations of UQ jMlffi geological survey in Utah afl 1? related to l.he development o!Mi" pal industries of the state t9 n vestigatlons arc o special liMSl" citizens. The fact that -survey, as a result of its wM , 1 1 virion ihroughout the counSi tending into Alaska and Ha'M u tea every year over a mllllorB'.' maps and answers over ISKr-"' indicates the extent to whloS'"' slons are sought along the opment of natural resource , Mineral InvestigationJ$t The metal mining distrlctK- ern portion of Utah will be Kl the prpsent season hv B SHj later will prepare a generalyfl' ore deposits of Utah, a will co-operate with Mr. ButB vestlgatlon of surnc of til dlM1' dally in the Wasatch rangeKS5 sance examination of the rm& uranium deposits In easteml. made by F. L, Hess, who fllKft slderable attention to the notlto for tho production o3R which tnere Is widespread pBt the great ore supplies, froiK' radium of the world Is maXf-cated maXf-cated In this region. tllBfc The geologic mapping ofM known as the Sunnyside atilM-- quadrangles, in Carbon counlB". tain the most Important reeeStf grade coal In the state. wilbM by F. R. Clark, who wuTiHh 1 lands. Similar examlnatloiW V ping In the Vernal region ,wB on by E G. Woodruff, assIatM. Ball, especial attention heB I Mr. Woodruff to certain deB I luminous shales which ariH.fl yielding oil and gas ln.constB I) titles on distillation. SpecB tions and tests of these aH field will be made at a nunB-T in order to determine whetpfcn sufficiently rich In hydrocariB lfy them as a reserve storejHtirE. future production of oil andiiBl la lion on a commercial scahjHi!i Topographic Mapping i The topographic brancfi QlHKj at work in. mapping twbiKHjwt and two fifteen-mlnut? quafH&j the respective approximate .Hcnr 900 square miles and 330 V'HV The first two are the to54Hnn In Cache and Box Elder coHr. the Cache National foreat; 'r&i nal quadrangle, in Uinta coujKgv c fifteen-minute quadrangles'ifRfw nvside and Wellington, In CB rJ' The Logan quadrangle voyed by Topographers HtJEZTI and Howard Clark: the Ve'HBfjlJjll Jones. C. Schnurr and r Sunnyside by E. P. Davis aHR t lnpton by B. R. BartletL BT This work will Include thaB" vevs necessary to prepare 4H2T will show all rivers. townjW3c railroads, as well as the surBit the countrv by means of SOBf TO contour lines. The complHB. bo engraved on the scales MP1-." miles to the inch and will iiHp"1 i be ready for distribution tinHU after the completion of the B Water Resources. .V The water resources of.BBitii Utah, with particular referenBteiTtrr of surface waters, are belngSmtarfj by the United States gaoloMwfiidc In co-operation with the statjIBtftg For this purpose seventy-slxB tions are maintained In UtaJHBten which are on streams of9Bii river basin and fifty-eight oBk , the great basin: twenty-fourM4s tJ located on canals or dUcllJBMQ,.'" stations are maintained InMBliaiji with the state. In addItloBBlii,t service co-operates on thrwHfejj,.! Uplted States weather buxam municipalities on sis and praBR on thirty-two. At these ffSAMBfc, the height or stage of ''k' termlned each day by Ioc'BtT at some stations by auwnBBMJ and measurements of the jMjNi, streams are made by nSHW1IJlI' survev when feasible. "OJISlk. the quantity of water flolM stations Is determined. ' 'Mlh Stream-flow dala are of PftJ.tfti in Utah in the design, consWl operation of power plants .;'$stc projects, and in Carey act-PRi and investigations for the PMJ, cation of the. public l&nR' j much use is found for the JBs ijt problems where the qiiantraw, involved, such as those jeltjmi, regulation, stream polluon..B age. seepage, flood control a9BC), water supplies. HSw Who Are in Charge. jK The Investigations of BUfiB' the Mull il I 1 1 1 i "I 11 ""BM (Continued on FoUoBQp ( !n gin ICH ATTENTION I Trom Preceding- Page.) :lcd on by E. A. Porter, dls-, dls-, and Lynn Cratulnll, Junior i offices In the federal bulld-kc bulld-kc City The co-opernting arc W. D, Beers, state en-Ihe en-Ihe board of land commis-Lake commis-Lake City, n and reports needed by the atlon board of tile United ;Ical survey In passing on applications Involving the use Jtah arc made under the dl-, dl-, C. trover, chief hydraulic E, C LaRue. hydniullc cn-il cn-il building. Salt Lake City. C. Murphy, hydraulic en-, en-, Cal. |