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Show I Jl 1 Completion of 1 1 1 ? Surveys Urged by .j j Pubizcuy Bureau g in response to petitions seeking (he eompletlon of iIip I tilted States topo graphic survey lii northern Utah, Director Di-rector (leorc- (M - Snn.h .l u- Oil erai department i giving special al m. WmmU, im.ikJLM IU IIIC . IV, ill.T'JHIIllg mj nru . received Iiliei'.or Smith proposes I lm I Qat Utah, through leelslntion, provide 96,000 to aid in the completion of the work. The federal government, it Is stated, would zi- sn cereal amount. The Ogden Publicity bureau, through Warren VYattis, its president, recently urged thai special attention he given 1 he turveyfl of three quadrangles quad-rangles in which Ogden Is especially interested. Saleratus Pass, ihr- dcd-n and the Promontory Point quadrangles Kill be Included under the proposed M t plans. The preparation by the geologlt al qprvey." writes Mr. Wattis. "of exact and comprehensive topographic data relating to the area described would I Seatl tlraulate mining, Irrigation, orainage, agriculture, road construe-t4n construe-t4n and other farms of development, and would be of Inestimable value to every one of the numerous commit I oltics located within the three quadrangles quad-rangles named All portions of the rur are readily accessible, numer It ij ;fl)s control points have been eptab- I I'r-hrd and The engineers rho ta!ce ih survey may depend upon the hearty cooperation r I be Ogden Publicity Bureau the Weber club and other ciniry. The ned for the work Is ; 1 ute, and the proposition is an unusually un-usually meritorious one." Senator Pc'ed Fmool supplemented Li request trom,Mr Wattle by a.-king tor its early consideration, and raid ho felt that this work would be of Inestimable In-estimable aluc to all the people located lo-cated in the area concerned In replying to Mr. Wattle, Director Sm.th suggested that the publicity bu ir-u .".. ifn us outer o, .-.inizauon? 01 individuals interested in this clas of work, get in touch with George T Mc Gonagle, ptate engineer, so as to as sure the adoption of a well co-ordinated plan for state pari iopat ion in the completion of the mapping." "You will realize," he writes "that )' is pood business policy for the geological geo-logical survey to accept all of the cooperative co-operative appropriations v.hich are made available and naturally the states which offer co-operation will in general, receive federal allotments In preference to states which do not contribute to the work." nn |