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ic. r-spt. Issued April 4, 1913. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



BUREAU OF SOILS— CIRCULAR NO. 79. 

 Milton Whitney, Chief. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Bureau of Soils, 

 Washington, D. C, March 27, 1913. 

 Sir : I have the honor to transmit the manuscript of a report cov- 

 ering the resurvey of the Sutter Basin^a poorly drained section of 

 the Marysville area, California, surveyed in 1909 — and to recommend 

 its publication as Circular No. 79 of this bureau. 

 Very respectfully. 



Milton Whitney, 



Chief of Bureau. 

 Hon. D. F. Houston, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



SOILS OF THE SITTER BASIN: A RETISION IN THE SURVEY OF 

 CERTAIN SOILS IN THE MARYSVILLE AREA, CALIFORNIA. 



introduction. 



The Marysville area, California, was surveyed in 1909, and the 

 report upon the area was issued by this bureau October 25, 1911. 

 This area extends for a distance of some 60 miles from north to 

 south, its southern extremity lying about 5 miles south of the city 

 of Sacramento. 



The Sutter Basin occupies characteristically an area of depression 

 of V-shaped outline lying in the middle western part of the area 

 covered by this survey, between the Sacramento and the Feather 

 Rivers. 



Owing to the fact that at the time of the survey large areas of 

 the basin lands and adjacent alluvial soils occupying the immediate 

 flood plain of the rivers were covered by overflow from floods of 

 unusual severity, considerable difficulty was experienced in studying 



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