72 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
The 30 employees in the general office include, in addition to the chief of the 
Bureau, 1 chief clerk (statutory), 1 editorial clerk (statutory), 1 financial clerk 
(statutory), 1 property clerk (statutory), 7 stenographers, (statutory), 1 fireman 
(miscellaneous), 2 watchmen (statutory), 2 charwomen (1 statutory, 1 miscel- 
laneous), 2 draftsmen (1 statutory, 1 miscellaneous), 1 photographer (miscellaneous), 
2 messengers (1 statutory, 1 miscellaneous), 1 carpenter (miscellaneous), + laborers 
(miscellaneous), 3 routine clerks (statutory ). 
Statutory roll in Washington.-......--.--------------------- 2-0 -e eee 25 
Statutory roll outside..........-.---.-------------------e ee eee eee eee eee 6 si 
Miscellaneous roll in Washington .....-.--.-.--------------------+------ 27 
Miscellaneous roll outside. .....----------------------------------------- 60 2 
— 87 
Totals .2occ..ohacceeeeee set est eee aewee adecesewakicd Mersdeoueeeed 118 
Average salary, both rolls, $1,191. 
Extent of soil survey to December 31, 1903. 
Total number of areas, 133, in 42 States. 
Total amount surveyed, 60,263 square miles, or 38,568,320 acres. 
Average size of area, 453 square miles. 
Average cost per square mile, $3.10. 
Mr. Grarr. Those on the outside are people who are engaged 
actively in examining soils, are they? 
Mr. Wuitney. Yes; in field work, in soil survey, and in the tobacco 
investigation. They are scattered all over the country. 
i HAIRMAN. They mostly work in the South at this time of the 
year? 
Mr. Wuirney. Yes; at this time of the year. 
Mr. Hewry. You have one man in Connecticut? 
Mr. Wuitney. Yes; one man. 
The Cuarrman. Now, Professor, a little farther on there is a fore- 
man at $840; 1 foreman at $720; 2 laborers at $720 each; 3 laborers at 
$600 each; 2 laborers at $480 each; 1 laborer at $300; 1 laborer at 
$60 per month; 1 laborer at $50 per month. Whatare those laborers 
employed at here? Are they all in the city of Washington? 
Mr. Wuiryey. Yes, sir; well, the laborers are not all in the city 
of Washington. We have some tobacco laborers; but some of those 
places are in the old class, in the unclassified service of laborers that 
were appointed years ago and used for clerical work. It is a class of 
positions in the Departments, not only in our Department but in other 
Departments, about which there is discussion pending with the Civil 
Service Commission as to what shall be done. It is inherited from 
long back. One of these persons has been in the Bureau, I think, for 
seven or eight years. ; 
The Cuarrman. A man or a woman? 
Mr. Watney. A woman; but they are all doing very efficient work. 
