HISTORY 5 



to $244,000, the total cost, not including engraving and print- 

 ing, as stated by Powell in a letter to the Secretary of the In- 

 terior, was $279,000. 



4. Geographical Survey West of the One Hundredth Me- 

 ridian. An act approved June 10, 1872 (17 Stat. L., 367) 

 authorized a "continuance of military and geographical sur- 

 veys and explorations west of the one hundredth meridian of 

 longitude." The survey was made under the jurisdiction of 

 the War Department, Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, of the 

 Engineer Corps, being placed in charge. This survey, as its 

 name implies, covered all the territory west of the one hun- 

 dredth meridian, which includes the western parts of the Da- 

 kotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas, the Rocky Mountain 

 states, and the Pacific Coast states. This survey was pri- 

 marily geographical or topographical, but, as was stated in 

 the report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War 

 on May 10, 1878 (House Executive Document No. 88, 45th 

 Congress, 2d Session), was so made as to obtain "at the same 

 time and as far as practicable without greatly increasing the 

 cost, all the information necessary before the settlement of 

 the country, concerning the branches of mineralogy and min- 

 ing, geology, paleontology, zoology, botany, archaeology, eth- 

 nology, philology, and ruins." 



The survey was brought to a close in 1879 and its results 

 were published in 1875-1889 under varying titles. 2 



The original appropriation for this survey was $75,000, but 

 a series of additional appropriations for continuing the sur- 

 vey, for engraving and printing, and for completing the office 

 work of the survey brought the total direct appropriations for 

 the survey up to the sum of $618,644. If to this sum is 

 added the value of the aid and supplies received from the War 

 Department and the salaries of regular Army officers detailed 



2 The titles of these reports and of the papers they contain are 

 given in Bulletin 222 of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



