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months during the next field season for surveys, particularly in Tyler 

 County, and also around Austin and San Antonio. 



UTAH. 



The soil survey work of 1899 and 1900 has been discontinued in this 

 State, but it is proposed to assign a party for six months during the 

 next field season to survey the irrigable lands around Utah Lake. 



The work around Salt Lake-City is being followed up by a drainage 

 investigation, having for its object the reclamation of some of the 

 alkali lands. 



VERMONT. 



A strong demand is made for the extension of the soil survey in the 

 Connecticut Yalley in the interest of the tobacco growers, to see if 

 the cultivation of the Sumatra tobacco can not be extended to that 

 latitude. It is proposed to assign a party for three months during 

 the next field season to extend the soil survey of the Connecticut 

 VaUey. 



VIRGINIA. 



During the last fiscal year the Bedford area and the Prince Edward 

 area have both been completed, and the Harrisonburg area has been 

 begun. All of this work has been under the direction of Mr. C. N. 

 Mooney. It is proposed to finish the Harrisonburg area and the 

 northern part of the Buckingham sheet of the Geological Survey 

 during the present field season, and to assign a party to this State for 

 nine months during the next field season to survey the southern half 

 of the Buckingham sheet and the whole of the Harpers Ferry sheet, 

 as well as an area around Norfolk. 



The most important work has been done on the Bedford and Harrison- 

 burg areas. These include portions of the Piedmont Plateau, of the 

 Valley of Virginia, and of the intervening mountain area. The results 

 of the work on the plateau and in the valley are important, but the 

 great interest centers in the survey of the mountain soils, in which 

 the fruit interests are developing. It has been found that the different 

 varieties and types of fruit are best adapted to different soils, and as 

 the survey extends and these soils are being outlined the basis is pre- 

 sented for the most intelligent development of the fruit interests. 



The Harpers Ferry area will take in a considerable portion of the 

 valley, as well as of the plateau, and the results of the work should show 

 the reason for the decline in agricultural value of the valley soils, and 

 should suggest means for reviving the agricultural interests of what 

 was once a prosperous community on what was considered the highest 

 type of agricultural land. 



The survey around Norfolk will be in the interest of the truck 

 growers. 



WASHINGTON. 



During the past fiscal year the Walla Walla area, covering about 

 150 square miles and including practicalh- all of the irrigable lands 

 of that locality, was surveyed under the direction of Mr. Holmes. The 

 work has just been finished and the results can not yet be reported. 



WISCONSIN. 



No work was done in the past fiscal year in this State, but Mr. Jay 

 A. Bonsteel was assigned on Julj^ 1 of the present fiscal year to the 



