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succeeded the year following by A. F. White, he, in his turn, being 

 succeeded in 1871 by H. K. Whitehill, the latter continuing to serve 

 until the abolition of the office in February, 1870. 



The State mineralogist was appointed by the board of regents, 

 who also fixed the rate of compensation: and, although a limit of 

 $4,000 a year was made by the law of 1860 and $-3,600 by the act of 

 18C9, the actual amount of salary, as indicated in the reports, appears 

 to have been $2,400. 



So far as can be learned, no assistants were regularly' employed, 

 although section 3 of the original bill made provision for tlie same, 

 number not stated, who were to receive salaries not exceeding $3,000 

 a year each. 



It would appear from the report of State Mineralogist Stretch for 

 18GG that the act creating the office provided for the payment of his 

 salary out of the mining fund, which was expected to accrue from an 

 act passed at a previous session of the legislature, entitled " The loca- 

 tion and possession of mining claims," or from the university fund. 

 It appears further that the fonner act produced no available pro- 

 ceeds and that the university fund was not segregated from the school 

 fund. For these reasons the State mineralogist was compelled to 

 work without any funds whatever to meet current expenses. Never- 

 theless, on receiving the appointment in the spring of 1866, he pro- 

 ceeded to lay out plans comprising a visit in succession to every 

 mining district in the State, collecting from each a complete series 

 of its minerals and geological formations, and such other informa- 

 tion as sliould be available. During the year he was enabled to se- 

 cure a collection of some 600 specimens, which it was expected would 

 form a nucleus for further operations. Steps were also taken toward 

 securing a collection to represent the mineral resources of the State 

 at the coming Paris exposition. 



Mr. Stretch was apparently succeeded in 1867 by Mr. A. F. "White, 

 who seemed to labor under the same financial disadvantages as did 

 his predecessor, and who, in order to accomplish a maximum amount 

 of Avork with a minimum amount of expense, associated himself with 

 one of the parties under the Clarence King survey then operating in 

 iVevada along the line of the Central Pacific Railroad. 



Although an act had been passed providing for the establishment 

 of the mining school, "White found no funds at hand from Avhich the 

 bonrd of regents could draw to defray the exj^enses of the necessary 

 buildings or for organizing and maintaining tlie contemplated school. 



The collections made by Professor Stretch and designed for the 

 international exjiosition at Pnris Averc taken as far as San Francisco, 

 but not forwarded, as originally intended. They were, therefore, 



