HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 211 
The approximate cost of equipping 20 stations for the issue of large chalk-plate 
maps and 30 stations with the small chalk-plate map, including printing ciatetlal adi 
presses, stereotyping outfits, rent, power, and pay of printers, is $110,000, of which 
$40,000 is for assistance. 
As the weather maps afford the only effective means possessed by the Weather 
Bureau for promptly placing before the public its daily observations and summaries, 
the improvement and extension of the maps along the lines indicated is urgently 
recommended. To carry out during the next fiscal year one-half of the plan outlined 
above it is recommended that $35,000 be added to the appropriation for “general 
expenses”’ outside of Washington, and $20,000 to the appropriation for salaries. 
That is where the $20,000 for salaries comes in. Here is the Wash- 
ington map [exhibiting map]. You know what this is? This is a 
lithograph map—a very expensive map. I have been experimenting 
with the chalk process, and I can make a map almost as good as that 
at. probably one-quarter that cost. It is our desire to issue that map 
with the observations of the whole country in tabular form, showing 
the distribution of temperature and pressure at 10 of the larger cities, 
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, and 
San Francisco—cities of that size, 10 of the most important—and then 
to take the 10 small printing outfits that do that work [exhibiting] and 
transfer them to places doing printing like this [exhibiting map]. That 
is our plan. In order to improve the character of weather maps and 
put a complete map in 10 of the larger cities of the Union would 
require an increase in the appropriation. 
The Cuarrman. Then that increase of $20,000 is for manning new 
stations, and $20,000 for labor in improving the weather map? 
Professor Moors. Yes, sir. If you cut at all, cut one or the other. 
You see how much is intended for each one. 
Mr. Scotr. How much of the $20,000 would be expended in the 
further dissemination of the maps, and how much in putting in the 
new plants? 
Professor Moors. In putting in the new plants we would dissemi- 
nate probably twice as many maps, because we could run them off by 
power where we now do it by hand. 
Mr. Scorr. You do that simply by an increase of mechanical facili- 
ties without additional cost for the dissemination ? 
Professor Moorn. No, sir; there is the paper. But we will get the 
maps out in the same time. 
Mr. Grarr. The cost of transportation does not amount to any- 
thing? 
Profeasue Moore. No, sir; we use the frank. 
The Coarrman. How is the Washington map distributed? 
Professor Moors. Only at Washington. 
The CHarrman. You do not distribute that map in New York at all? 
Professor Moors. Washington is the only city in which that map 
is printed. We send it daily to such places as can be reached by mail. 
Then we send the map to a good many educational institutions. They 
bind them and keep a courplete set of them. Many of the professors 
in the high schools asked us to send them the maps. We issue 5,000 
a day. 
The Cuarrman. Now comes the other kind. 
Professor Moorr. Of this map [exhibiting map] we print an edition 
of 25,000 a day. 
The Carrman. Are they printed in Washington? 
Professor Moors. No, sir. 
