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spondence in the hands of the writer would indicate that jealousy on 

 the i^art of the Wheeler organization and local personal prejudices 

 had much to do with it. Samuel Aughey, of the State University, 

 would appear to have been actively interested and at one time aspired 

 to the directorship. The bill, however, failed of passage. The re- 

 gents of the State University, in recognition of the importance of a 

 surve}^, provided in 1899 the sum of $500 to be expended in the work 

 and $250 for each of the years 1900, 1901, and 1902. In 1901, how- 

 ever, the matter was taken up b}' the legislature, and Prof. E. H. Bar- 

 bour, of the State University, appointed State geologist. The w^ork 

 of the survey thus organized passes bej^ond the time limit of this 

 paper. 



NEVADA. 



Organization. — No systematic and independent geological survey 

 of the State was ever carried through, although an abortive attempt 

 was made in 18G5, the year following the admission of the State to 

 the Union. The following is the text of the act under which the 

 attempt was to be made : 



The people of the State of Nevada, represented in senate and assembly, do 

 enact as foUoirs: 



Section 1. Tlie ofRce of Statt^ geologist is liereby created and the board of 

 regents is hereby juithorized to appoint a competent person who shall act and 

 be known a (as) " State geologist of Nevada." 



Sec. 2. The person appointed as State geologist under the provisions of this 

 act shall, immediately upon his appointment, proceed to make a preliminary 

 and superficial geological survey of the mineral regions of this State, and to 

 collect suitable specimens, and arrange and classify them in a cabinet, to be 

 formed and kept at the capitol of tiie State, a)id to prepare a map, nnu'ked, and 

 colored in such mauiier as to Indicate the general geoioj^cical divisions as de- 

 veloped of the country examined. The making of this preliminary or super- 

 ficial survey shall not occupy more than eight months. At the conclusion of 

 the making of this survey and the report thereon the geologist's cabinet, report, 

 profiles, and map shall be turned over to the State librarian. 



Sec. 3. The sum of $G,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys not 

 otherwise appropriated, to be expended toward defraying the expenses which 

 may be incurred under the provisions of this act. The controller of State is 

 horeliy authorized and required to draw his warrant on the treasurer in favor 

 of the person whom the board of regents may appoint State geologist, in such 

 Bums as the board of regents may truly certify their approval of, the aggregate 

 of the sinus drawn for being within the amount hereinbefore specified and 

 appropriated. 



Approved March 20, 1S05. 



So far as can be learned this law Avas never carried into effect. The 

 year following the matter of a survey came once more before the 

 legislature in a somewhat different form and in connection with the 

 establishment of a State mining school. The following is the text 



