LETTER OE TRANSMriTAL. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Bureau of Soils, 

 WasUngton, D. C, April 2 4, 1908. 

 Sir: A soil survey of the Redding area, California, was instituted 

 in the summer of 1907 at the request of the Shasta County Board of 

 Trade for the purpose of determining the extent and varieties of the 

 soils and the possibilities of the further agricultural development of 

 the area. This work is a part of the extension of the soil surveys in 

 the Sacramento Valley called for by numerous resolutions from 

 boards of trade of all the representative cities of the valley, the Sac- 

 ramento Valley Development Association, California Water and 

 Forest Association, etc., which have been indorsed by Hon. George C. 

 Perkins and Hon. F. P. Flint. I have the honor to transmit herewith 

 the report and map covering these investigations and to recommend 

 their publication as advance sheets of the Field Operations of the 

 Bureau of Soils for 1907, as provided by law. 

 Respectfully, 



Milton Whitney, 



Chief of Bureau. 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



