LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



To His Excellency, Hon. Henry D. Hatneld, Governor of West 



Virginia, and President of the West Virginia Geological 



Survey Commission: 

 SIR: 



I have the honor to transmit herewith the Detailed Report 

 and the Topographic and Economic Maps covering the Counties 

 of Lewis and Gilmer. 



This important Report has been prepared by Assistant Geol- 

 ogist David B. Reger who has for several years been associated 

 with and trained by Assistant Ray V. Hennen in the best methods 

 of geologic work. The Report and Economic Map speak for 

 themselves as to the high character of the geologic results at- 

 tained by Mr. Reger in covering these two counties with his first 

 separate Report for the State. The Soil Report and Map of 

 Lewis and Gilmer have been completed in cooperation with the 

 U. S. Bureau of Soils, and are now in preparation by the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. This Soil Report, however, can 

 not be issued for probably a year or more in the future, and it 

 was deemed best not to withhold the State's Geologic Report 

 from publication to await the former's appearance, but to dis- 

 tribute the same when it does appear to all who have received 

 or purchased copies of the State's Geologic Report on these two 

 counties. The State Survey has now perfected arrangements 

 with the Public Printer of the United States by which West Vir- 

 ginia can procure a separate edition of 2,500 copies of the Soil 

 Reports and Maps covering the same areas as our geologic re- 

 ports at a price considerably under what it would cost the State 

 to republish the same as was formerly done. This policy was 

 adopted when our geologic work got ahead of the Government's 

 cooperative Soil work, and will be continued with future pub- 

 lications, since there are now 6 counties (Barbour, Braxton and 

 Gay, and Jefferson, Berkeley and Morgan) whose geologic 

 studies have been completed, and upon which the Reports and 

 geologic maps are under preparation, but which have not yet 

 been taken up for Soil study by the U. S. Bureau of Soils. 



