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recognize the value of the survey until after it was completed, and that 
nsequently it would be impossible to carry it forward on a matured 
with a liberal appropriation—of not less than $40,000 per year. 
am, furthermore, of opinion that the survey should be suspended alto- 
ther, until such time as the finances of the State are placed on a cash 
any longer. 
Should the financial condition of the State be improved, and the ne- 
cessary appropriations made, we might in four years accomplish the fol- 
lowing amount of work: 
We should prepare a map of Central California, extending from the 
parallel of 37° to that of 40° 20’—probably on a scale of three miles 
tothe inch. This map would embrace the area occupied by about nine- 
tenths of the population of the State. It is possible that we might be 
able to complete the map of the Coast Ranges, from Santa Barbara to 
Monterey, which was commenced two years ago. Detailed maps of va- 
be given, The main object of the survey, however, would be the eluci- 
dation of the mineral resources of the State, including everything which 
nts of the survey would also receive a share of attention. 
_ The result of the survey, in case it should be actively continued for 
wary ars longer, would probably be compr ised in ve large vol- 
umes, of which the first would embrace the physical geography and 
geology of the State; the second, the description © he fossils 
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of economical value; the fourth, the botany and zoology ; and 
fifth would contain such maps, sections and other illustrations as were 
hot in roduced into the other volumes, or pr 
ie however, that some 
‘0 publish, 
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