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Show A 150-Year Job The government's basic survey oi the United States has been in progress pro-gress 70 years and at the present rate of progress would require 80 years more, according to an official report. Believing this pace too slow, President Presi-dent Hoover favors a plan whereby the remaining work may be completed complet-ed in 18 years instead of 80, at a cost of about a million dollars a year. Adequate maps have never been made of more than one-half of the country, one section which has been neglected being the area affected by Mississippi river floods. Consequently Consequent-ly it has been hard to judge in advance ad-vance just what territory would be flooded at a given height of water. Accurate topographical maps, with land elevations of various districts shown, would have made it possible to save 100,000 head of cattle during the 1927 flood, by removing them to higher land, President Hoover declares. de-clares. This is only one illustration of the necessity for the survey, and the plan to hasten its completion should receive re-ceive the earnest attention of Con-gres Con-gres ;. |