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Show To Miners, Irrigationists and Investors. Realizing the need for making easily accessible access-ible to the people of the Rocky Mountain States the result of the various lines of its activities, the United States Geographical Survey maintains an office at 300-304 Chamber of Commerce Building. Build-ing. Denver, Colorado. Complete fileB of all the Survey publications are available to the public for reference. The stock of1 many of the older publications is exhausted and the information contained in them is available only in this way. These publications contain information regarding general geology, mineral resources (including coal and oil deposits), topography, records of the runoff of the surface waters, and occurence of underground waters, in many poritions of the United State3. Irrigation and water power development along conservative lines 'are recognized as prime factors in theupbuilding.of the western states and the surest way to insure such conservative development devel-opment is through reliable information of the most important element, tlie water supply. Such information for many streams' is found in the publications of the Geological Survey. Of especial importance to those states rich in minerals min-erals is the work of the government geologists, whose reports are also found in the publication cf the Geological Survey. The good roads movement, move-ment, which i attracting public attention at this time is greatly aided by the topographic maps which show the best locations for such roads. |