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been fully carried out, apparently through a lack oi collaboration 

 on the part of Daniels, who was evidently an element of discord 

 from the start, and who secured from the governor a special con- 

 tract for himself regardless of the interests of Hall and Carr. Wight 

 states, however, that Messrs. Hall and Carr, at their own expense, 

 employed Col. Charles Whittlesey to explore the country between the 

 Menomenee and Oconto Rivers as a preliminar}" to a more extended 

 survey to the northward. In the spring of 1S59 an engagement was 

 entered into with J. D. Whitney, who had been employed as chemist 

 on the Iowa survey, whereby he was to make a survey of the lead 

 region — a work which, it may be incidental!}'' noted, was .carried out. 



The tripartite commissioner arrangement designated under th« 

 first law evidently did not work out satisfactorily, as is apparent 

 from the following : 



BxpX'UTivi? Office, 

 Madison, Februarij 17. ISoti. 

 To the Hon. the Senate: 



I have received from Mr. E. C;irr and Mr. James Hall, appoiuted by the law 

 of 1857, with Mr. Edward Daniels, to make a geological survey of this State, 

 a communication on the subject of that survey, inicl giving their reasons for not 

 forming and organizing the commission contemplated by that law. In further 

 answer to the resolution of the senate calling on me for information on that 

 subject I deem it proper to transmit the same herewith for j'^our consideration. 



Ajlf.x. W. Randall. 



To llis B.iXdUnvy Hon. Ale.vuHdir "1 . JvunrhiU, ilocvnior of Tvisconsin: 



The undersigned members of the commission appointed by the law, approved 

 March 3, 1S57, to make a geological and agricultural survey of the State, beg 

 leave to present to your excellency the following statement as an explanation 

 of the reasons why they have not been actively engaged in performing th» 

 duties required by tlie said act: 



After the passage of the bill authorizing a geological and agricultural survey 

 of the State, Mr. Daniels assumed such a position toward it that Mr. Hall and 

 myself believed we could not honorably or usefully be connected with it, unless 

 the contracts clearly and definitely fixed the nature and extent of the service 

 to be rendered by each, in accordance with the third section of the act. We 

 wished that the work of the survey, which eacii one was to perform, and thr- 

 amount of the appropriation which each one might use in accordance with the 

 provisions of the act to accomplish the same, should be determined by the con- 

 tracts. We insisted that each one should be limited to an equitable proportion 

 of the appropriation ($2,000 per year), and that if more than this was ex- 

 pended in any department it should be a matter of mutual agreement. This 

 was the difference between Mr. Daniels and the other members of the com- 

 mission, he insisting that the survey was chiefly instituted for his benefit, and 

 that the control and management of the same rightfully belonged to him. H« 

 was unwilling to be limited in his contract in the use of the appropriation. 



Mr. Hall came to Madison on the 1st of May, at the suggestion of the goy- 

 emor and other members of the commission to make the arrangements and 

 contracts necessary to carry them out, Mr, Daniels having written from Kansasi 



