U.S. Geological Survey: Its History, Activities and OrganizationAppleton, 1919 - Počet stran: 163 |
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... Surveys of the Public Domain : 1804-1865 Geographical and Geological Surveys : 1867-1879 Establishment of the U. S. Geological Survey , 1879 Extension of Operations to the Country at Large . Development of Survey's Functions . The Survey ...
... Surveys of the Public Domain : 1804-1865 Geographical and Geological Surveys : 1867-1879 Establishment of the U. S. Geological Survey , 1879 Extension of Operations to the Country at Large . Development of Survey's Functions . The Survey ...
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... GEOLOGICAL SURVEY : ITS HISTORY , ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZATION CHAPTER I HISTORY The United States Geological Survey , a bureau of the Department of the Interior , is engaged chiefly in surveying the geology , topography , and related ...
... GEOLOGICAL SURVEY : ITS HISTORY , ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZATION CHAPTER I HISTORY The United States Geological Survey , a bureau of the Department of the Interior , is engaged chiefly in surveying the geology , topography , and related ...
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... geological surveys . The act of June 28 , 1834 , appropriated $ 5,000 " to be applied to geological and mineralogical survey and researches . " This appropriation was used in making a geological survey of the country between the ...
... geological surveys . The act of June 28 , 1834 , appropriated $ 5,000 " to be applied to geological and mineralogical survey and researches . " This appropriation was used in making a geological survey of the country between the ...
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... Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel . The act of March 2 , 1867 ( 14 Stat . L. , 457 ) provided for " a geological and topographical exploration of the territory between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada Mountains ...
... Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel . The act of March 2 , 1867 ( 14 Stat . L. , 457 ) provided for " a geological and topographical exploration of the territory between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada Mountains ...
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... published in full , the only printed documents produced being two brief reports in 1877 and 1878 by Powell . Though the appropriations for the survey amounted only to $ 244,000 , the total cost , not including THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
... published in full , the only printed documents produced being two brief reports in 1877 and 1878 by Powell . Though the appropriations for the survey amounted only to $ 244,000 , the total cost , not including THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
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40 Stat 49th Congress 66 per month activities administration Alaska annual report Areal Geology Assistant Engineer Associate Geologist atlas sheets bench marks Branch.-Cont bulletins Bureau Chemical and Physical Chief of Section coal lands Cong coöperation Department determined diem Director Draftsman economic ending June Engraving and Printing entry examination field Geographical Survey Geologic Branch geologic folios geologic maps Geologist Chief Govt ground water Hydraulic Engineer Hydrographic Interior investigations irrigation June 30 Junior Clerk Junior Engineer Land Classification land laws Land Office monographs NUMBER SALARY RATE O. C. Marsh operations organization Paleontologic physical researches potash Powell preparation provisions public lands published region relating resources of Alaska scientific Secretary Skilled Laborer square miles Stratigraphy streams sundry civil expenses Survey's Territories tion topo topographic maps topographic surveys U. S. Geological survey United States Geological utilization War Department Washington water resources water supply Western Coal Fields
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Strana 65 - every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States...
Strana 65 - ... upon payment to the receiver of not less than ten dollars per acre for such lands where the same shall be situated more than fifteen miles from any completed railroad, and not less than twenty dollars per acre for such lands as shall be within fifteen miles of such road.
Strana 8 - The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology.
Strana 118 - An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers...
Strana 83 - If kept revised to date by the services, they constitute exceedingly important tools of administration. They permit the directing personnel to see at a glance the organization and personnel at their disposition. They establish definitely the line of administrative authority and enable each employee to know his place in the system. They furnish the essential basis for making plans for determining costs by organization division and subdivision. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem...
Strana 130 - EXPLANATORY NOTE The bibliographies appended to the several monographs aim to list only those works which deal directly with the services to which they relate, their history, activities, organization, methods of business, problems, etc. They are intended primarily to meet the needs of those persons who desire to make a further study of the services from an administrative standpoint. They thus do not include the titles of publications of the services themselves, except in so far as they treat of the...
Strana vii - ... are almost as varied as those of the entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to billions annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than half a million persons are required to do the work imposed by law...
Strana 23 - States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells and the preparation of reports upon the best...
Strana viii - Taft outlined, the Institute for Government Research has undertaken the preparation of a series of monographs, of which the present study is one, giving a detailed description of each of the fifty or more distinct services of the government. These studies are being vigorously prosecuted, and it is hoped that all services of the government will be covered in a comparatively brief space of time. Thereafter, revisions of the monographs will be made from time to time as. need arises, to the end that...
Strana 112 - L., 194. (An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes.