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- the ‘building of reservoirs among the mountains for the storage of an 
’ immense volume of water which is now wasted in spring floods, 
- causing, in part, the spring rise in the Lower Mississippi, sometimes 
so disastrous. Thus would the resources of the cultivators of the 
Rocky Mountain slopes be doubled, and the destruction of hundreds 
of thousands of acres of corn and cotton be obviated by the same 
beneficent measure, attesting its utility as well as its nationality 
and constitutionality. 
¢ FOLDING ROOM. 
The following is a statement showing the number and kinds of 
documents received at and distributed from the zolding room of the 
-_- Department. 
The Annual Report of the Department for 1886 has been printed 
| during the current year, by order of Congress, 400,000 copies in 
number, of which 375,000 are held for distribution by Senators and 
| members of the House of Representatives, and 25,000 copies assigned 
to this Department. 
The Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry for 1886 has been 
printed during the current year, by order of Congress, 35,000 copies 
in number, of which 30,000 are held for distribution by Senators 
and members of the House of Representatives, and 5,000 copies as- 
signed to this Department. 
The report on wool and other animal fibers has also been printed 
during the current year, by order of Congress, 10,000 copies in num- 
ber, of which 9,000 are held for distribution by Senators and mem- 
bers of the House of Representatives, and 1,000 copies assigned to 
this Department. 
Other reports have been as follows : 
DIVISION OF STATISTICS—NEW SERIES. 
Number. 
No. 36. Report on the crops of the year and on freight rates of transportation 
Pompariitn ) Decomber: 1886 <<. . dnod eq. c 0 hos ooelaw eae ae oe ee 15, 000 
No. 37. Report on the numbers and values of farm animals, the cotton crop 
and its distribution, and on freight rates of transportation com- 
patties; January and Pebruary, ISSh< 62 als 33 so os eicee ss aes 16,000 
No. 38. Report on the distribution and consumption of wheat and corn, on 
the wheat production of the world, etc., March, 1887,......... 15, 000 . 
No. 39. Report on the condition of winter grain and farm animals, and on 
freight rates of transportation companies, April, 1887.......... 15, 000 
No. 40. Report on the condition of winter grain and progress of cotton plant- 
oP eee r CSP h ALA ae ie Sale ew iegt Noid CH OE Se eg see cee bee er 16, 060 
No. 41. Report on the acreage of wheat and corn, and on freight rates of 
transportation: companies, June, 1887........6...0..0 cece cece 16, 000 
No. 42. Report on the acreage of corn, wheat, and tobacco, with condition of 
STOWE) CROPS.) GUC. ULY 5 FOO Me 04 ras. sett bate Wikis dome ba ole ole 16, G00 
No. 48. Report on the condition of growing crops and on freight rates of 
transportation companies, August, 1887................ 022 eee 16, 000 
