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advantage to practical miners like himself, to get a report of what 

 had been done in each of the mines, and that it would be just the 

 thing to induce capitalists to invest their money." 



Professor Chapman said : " People even come to me from the 

 States and say. Where can I find a Geological report and map of 

 such a 'district ? I am obliged to say that it cannot be found, ex- 

 cept in detached portions." He considei-ed that small maps shf uld 

 be jjublished, accompanied by plain reports explanatory of the map 

 and giving lists of economic minerals, with their analyses, cui-rent 

 values, etc., accompanied if possible by a few plates, showing com- 

 monly occurring distinctive fossils. 



Ml". Raphael Pumpelly, Dii-ector of the Northern Ti-ans-Continen- 

 tal Sui-vey, Newport, R. I., recommended the collection of such sta- 

 tistics, and considered that the "work should begin with a thorough 

 canvas, similar to the one carried on for the tenth census of the 

 United States, that is, every known locality containing mineral of 

 economic value, whether worked or not, should be visited, and com- 

 mercial samples taken of its products and these samples should then 

 be subjected to the processes of testing or analysis, according to the 

 requirements of the case. At the same time the statistics of produc- 

 tion where workings exist, should be a part of the work." 



Professor Dana, the author of the well-known Manuals of Geology 

 and Mineralogy, wrote that he believed "it to be very desirable that 

 mineral statistics should be collected and preserved under govern- 

 ment direction." 



"This work," said he, "does not necessarily come within the 

 duties of a State Geologist. But it could be connected with a sur- 

 vey, provided it be entrusted to a sepai'ate agent, who should make 

 it his special business. Such intormation is often collected with diffi- 

 culty on account of the unwillingness of owners to make known the 

 state of their afiairs, and it is in danger of being largely erroneous, 

 as a consequence of interested misrepresentations, the fluctuations in 

 the conditions of mines, and the uncertainties of ordinary methods of 

 obtaining values, or estimates of values, by samples. The work, 

 therefore, requii^es special qualifications, very different from those 

 needed in a geological survey." 



I trust I shall be excused for using so largely the words of others. 



