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DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



The several amounts appropriated for these Bureaus are divided as 

 follows : 



Appropriations for the new Bureaus. 



Bureau. 



Bureau of Plant Industry- 

 Bureau of Forestry 



Bureaii of Soils 



Bureau of Chemistry 



Salaries. 



$39,681) 

 39,160 

 18, 140 

 11,300 



General 



$165,000 

 146,380 

 91,000 



24,500 



Total. 



$204,680 

 185, 440 

 109,140 

 35,800 



A salary of $3,000 each is provided for the chiefs of these Bureaus, 

 with assistants at $2,500 each. The question of salaries for the scien- 

 tific corps of the Department of Agriculture has been a matter of con- 

 sideration by the Committee on Agriculture for several years past. 



NEW BUILDINGS AT WEATHER BUREAU STATIONS. 



The Weather Bureau appropriations were increased by $90,000 for 

 1902 for the purpose of establishing new stations, erecting new build- 

 ings where needed, a new cable to Tatoosh Island, State of Washington, 

 for the circulation of daily weather reports by the newly established 

 rural free-delivery routes, and for the installation and operation of a 

 system of wireless communication between the mainland and Tatoosh 

 Island. Of this sum, $20,000 is intended for the purchase of a site 

 and the erection of a small brick and wood building at each of the 

 following-named places, for the use of the Weather Bureau, and for 

 all necessary labor, materials, and expenses, plans and specifications, 

 and for the purchase of instruments, furniture, supplies, storm- warn- 

 ing towers, etc. , to properly equip the same : 



Appropriations for new Weather Bureau stations. 



Atlantic City, N. J ._ $6,000 



Hatteras, N. C. ... 5,000 



Fort Canby, Wash ... 4,000 



Port Crescent, Wash 3,000 



Tatoosh Island, Wash 5,000 



Point Reyes, Cal 3,000 



Total.... 26,000 



PLANS FOR NEW ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING. 



The sum of $5,000 is appropriated "to enable the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture to have prepared, under his direction, plans for a fireproof 

 administrative building, to be erected on the grounds of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, in the city of Washington, said plans, and such 

 recommendations thereon as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem 

 necessary, to be transmitted to Congress at its next regular session." 

 This is the first decided and substantial step in the direction of a new 

 administrative building, and is the result of persistent and determined 

 efforts by the Department for many years past. The Committees on 

 Agriculture and on Appropriations are favorably disposed toward an 

 appropriation for this purpose, fully realizing its importance, and a 

 very friendly feeling exists among Members of Congress generally, the 

 necessity for a new building being well understood. 





