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The Cuarrman. But in the summer time you are out in the field 
nearly all of the time with most of your force, are you not? 
Mr. Mrap. Personally, I am; yes, sir. 
The Cuarrman. You have not much force here in the summer time? 
Mr. Mean. We have to keep sending out a force of men. 
The Cuarrman. How much force do you keep here in the summer 
time, when crowding would be objectionable? 
Mr. Mav. We get along easier in the summer time than we do in 
the winter. The crowding is in the winter. 
The Cuarrman. How much force is here in the summer time? How 
many people have you here, in numbers? Did you state that? 
Mr. Mrap. I should say five or six. There is one connected with 
the distribution of publications. We have to attend to that. Then 
there is simply the force that is connected with the editing of bulletins 
That i on during the summer. It goes through the whole year, 
but all our field men, all our engineers, are put in the field in the 
summer. 
Mr. Henry. How large a number of employees do you keep in your 
Wyoming station? 
ar Meap. That varies, of course, in the winter and summer quite 
argely. 
The Cuarrman. Do you think it is necessary to keep up an office 
there also? Is not all your work returned here really to be put in 
shape for distribution? 
Mr. Meap. I think it is economy to keep it up. 
The Cuarrman. You do? 
Mr. Meap. Yes. In the first place, we would have to have new 
offices if we had all our force here. We would have to rent offices 
here. We have got just as many people in the rooms we are occupy- 
ing now as we can keep, and we have some of our force out in the 
library, in the alcoves there. 
Mr. Henry. In other words, the maintenance of the office in Wyo- 
ming is not an extra expense? 
Mr. Mrap. No. Then another thing. In our work of measuring 
water we have to have quite a large number of instruments for keep- 
ing records. They have to be brought in and corrected and checked 
up and tested every year. We have a station in Wyoming that the 
State has fixed up for us free of cost that we are able to utilize. We 
have not anything of the kind here. 
The Cuatrman. Did you say Wyoming had done something toward 
paying expenses in cooperation with the experiment stations? 
Mr. Meap. Yes, sir. 
The Cuarrman. Then California, Nevada, Wyoming, and what other 
State has helped you—Kansas? 
Mr. Meap. Yes, sir. 
The Cuarrman. Washington? ; 
Mr. Mzap. Yes, sir; quite a number of the stations have helped us. 
The Cuarrman. I mean, have any other States contributed money, 
besides those I have mentioned, to be expended by you? 
Mr. Mrav. They have not contributed money outright, but the 
different experiment stations have aided us in our work for equipment 
and men. ; - 
Mr. Haugen. How many of these arid and semiarid States are 
there? 
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