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course pursued with hig^h disfavor, and complained that too great 

 prominence had been given to paleontolog5^ The minority held a 

 contrary opinion. 



Governor Bishop's next annual message condemned the practice 

 of the legislature in voting large editions, maintaining that the 

 money could have been much better expended on field work, and 

 urged the resumption of field work with a view to the development 

 of the economic features of the State. 



Expenditures in 1879. — The appropriation for 1879 was but $2,800, 

 while the expenses were $12,403.34. 



Publication of atlas. — In 1880 provision was made for the distri- 

 bution of the edition of 5,000 copies of the geological atlas printed. 

 T^'or work on the survey no appropriation was made that year, though 

 a bill was introduced providing for a more complete survey'. 



Expenditures during 1S80. — The expenses amounted to $7,448.39. 



The next year Governor Foster invited the attention of the legisla- 

 tors to the unfinished publications of the survey. The copy for the 

 second part of volume 3 was by that time ready for the printer. The 

 time and mode of publication were in the hands of the legislature. 

 The plates for illustration, necessarily expensive, and the large edi- 

 tion needed to match the part already published, would require a large 

 appropriation. The volume on natural history, volume 4, of the series 

 required by law was reported in the hands of the printer, while volume 

 5, economic geology, justly viewed as the most important member of 

 the series, was still forthcoming. As the bill for a more complete sur- 

 vey of the State, with special reference to economic features, which 

 was before the legislature the last session, did not reach a vote, the 

 sentiment regarding it was not yet formally expressed : 



In view of the probability tliat this measure will be further urged during 

 the present session, I besiieak your careful consideration of the subject in- 

 volved. It is beyond dispute that the last survey has done a great deal for 

 the development of the mineral wealth of the State. Its publications have 

 been eagerly sought for at home and abroad, and its official and uncolored 

 testimony has encouraged the investment of large amounts of capital from 

 witliin and from without the State in our coals and ores. But, on the other 

 hand, it is equally beyond dispute that tlie reports as they now stand are 

 incomplete and inadequate for almost every district of the State. They liave 

 been rendered so in part by the very de^elopmeut which they have fostered. 

 The 10 years that have passed since many of these mineral belts were explored 

 have been niarivcd by much activity and enterprise. The knowledge of the 

 field has been greatly increased, so much so tliat the statements of the reiiorts 

 are no longer valuable as guides to exploration in many cases. There is also 

 a widespread conviction that a greater degree of certainty in regard to thf 

 continuity and character of our mineral deposits is attainable than we now 

 possess. 



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