News Notes 



A map of McNairy County is at present being made by the State Geo- 

 logical Survey. It will show all the roads, railroads, towns, residences, 

 schoolhouses, churches, and streams. The scale of the map will be one 

 mile to the inch. Mr. F. W. Farnsworth and Mr. C. R. Watkins, Jr., are 

 employed in the field at this work. Mr. Farnsworth, a member of the 

 United States Geological Survey, but temporarily secured for this work, 

 has been engaged on many maps of this kind. His home is in Dayton, 

 Tennessee. Mr. Watkins, of Nashville, is a civil engineer and has re- 

 cently been employed in railroad work in Tennessee. He is a graduate 

 of the Virginia Industrial Institute. 



The object of such work is to prepare detailed maps of counties of the 

 State which have not previously been surveyed, in order that the geolog- 

 ical formations and soils may be represented upon them. Very little of 

 such mapping has ever been done in Tennessee. McNairy County, since 

 it contains material which represents most of the geological formations 

 of West Tennessee, supplies the key to the geological problems of the 

 whole region. It is the intention of this Survey to continue such detailed 

 mapping of the counties of the State as fast as the means at its command 

 will permit. Besides their use for geological and soil mapping, these 

 maps will be of great service to the people of the State, and those outside 

 the State, seeking information about it. Many requests have already 

 been made by the farmers of McNairy County, for copies of the map, 

 when it is published. 



To accompany a report on the iron ores of Lewis County, which is now 

 being prepared by Mr. Reese F. Rogers, formerly a member of the State 

 Geological Survey, but now a member of the U. S. Bureau of Soils, a de- 

 tailed map of that county is being drafted, and will be published soon. 

 The map shows the location of the mines, prospects, and banks of the 

 iron ore deposits. Mr. J. Trousdale Haden, who has recently come to the 

 employ of the State Geological Survey, is doing the drafting of this map 

 as well as that of the coal and marble reports, which are now in prepara- 

 tion by the geologists, Glenn, Nelson and Gordon. 



Extensive coal sampling, under the direction of the State Geological 

 Survey, in cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey, is being done in 

 the Cumberland Plateau coal field. This is in connection with the report 



