228 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES Is^ATIONAL MUSEUM. 



10. Completion of the survey of the Marquette iron region, by 

 T. B. Brooks, under contract of 1869. 



11. Survey of the developed portions of the copper region, by R. 

 Pumpelly. 



The foregoing plan, in all its features, was fully approved by 

 vote of the geological board. 



It had been the wish of the director to intrust the survey of the 

 copper region to John H. Forster, a local geologist of good repute, 

 with whom an agreement was reached in 1869, as already stated, 

 before the board had determined to postpone the copper survey to 

 1870. But Governor Baldwin had promptly negatived his employ- 

 ment and expressed a wish tliat Professor Pumpelly be nomi- 

 nated. The director had alread}' discovered indications of serious 

 disaffection in the copper region, and felt that conciliation would be 

 wise; but, acquiescing in the governor's judgment, he nominated 

 Professor Pumpelly and the board made the appointment. Un- 

 doubtedly, the best interests of the survey would have been sub- 

 served by this selection if the offended temper of the copper region 

 had not withheld cordial cooperation. 



Before this hostility became fully known, however, a contract was 

 signed with Professor Pumpell;/. This was dated May 28, 1870, 

 and $4,000 was the sum stipulated for compensation and expenses. 

 It required, in addition to the specific work of geological investiga- 

 tion, that the report should treat of " all those matters which con- 

 cern the well-being and prosperity of the copper regions as such." 

 Professor Pumpelly left Ann Arbor for his field of work on the 

 same date. 



In the iron region the work of Major Brooks was continued at 

 his private expense, since the whole appropriation available had 

 been absorbed in 1869. 



The work in the Lower Peninsula, and in some of the nonmetallif- 

 erous regions of the Upper Peninsula, was carried on in accordance 

 with the plan already stated. Under this plan the entire expense 

 of the general direction of the work, and of the general investiga- 

 tions in the climate, the physiography, and fruit, lumber, and farm- 

 ing statistics was developed on the moiety of the appropriation as- 

 signed to the Lower Peninsula. 



THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN 1871. 



In his message presented to the legislature, January 4, 1871, Gov. 

 H. P. Baldwin, referring to the geological survey, said : 



The flirector immediately (after his appointment) entered npon the dischnrge 

 of his duties. Detailed plans for a systematic and most thorough exploratioH 

 of the whole State were made, and two corps of assistants — one for each Penin- 

 sula — were organized. 



