GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. i 



it is my earnest desire to demote the remainder of the working- days of 

 my life to the development of its scientific and material interests, until 

 I shall see every Territory, which is now organized, a State in the Union. 

 Out of the portions of the continent which lie to the northward and 

 southward of the great central mass, other Territories will, in the mean 

 time, be carved, until we shall embrace within our limits the entire 

 country from the Arctic Circle to the Isthmus of Darien. 



It will not be possible for me in this report to give full credit to all 

 for the numerous favors and courtesies which have been extended to 

 my party, not only during the present season, but for the many years 

 of the past that I have been exploring the West. Many of them were 

 indispensable to my success, and a great source of saving in the expendi- 

 ture of my limited appropriations. I take this occasion to state that 

 every favor extended to myself or my party by the citizens of the coun- 

 try, by the military authorities, or by railroad corporations, has been in 

 the past and will be in the future credited to the cause which I have 

 endeavored to advance. Every dollar that could be saved I have regarded 

 as so much power given me to place before the world in a proper light 

 the magnificent resources, scientific and practical, of our vast domain 

 in the West. 



To Hon. Leland Stanford, C. P. Huntington, and Charles Crocker, 

 of the Central Pacific Bailroad; to Hon. John D. Perry and Gen- 

 eral A. Anderson, of the Kansas Pacific Bailway; and to Gen- 

 eral John Pierce and Colonel Fisher, of the Denver Pacific Bailroad, I 

 would tender my grateful thanks for the generous manner in which 

 most important favors were extended to me and to my party, thereby 

 saving hundreds of dollars to the Government. 



To the officers of the Union Pacific Railroad, in years past, I have been 

 greatly indebted for free transportation and other courtesies. From 

 General G. M. Dodge, of Council Bluffs, to whom the West is indebted 

 for its material advancement as much as to any one living man, I have 

 always received the warmest sympathy and aid. I have also to thank 

 Dr. -T. C. Durant and Webster Snyder, former superintendent of the 

 road, for marked courtesies in the line of my scientific investigations. 

 Scientific men who are truly devoted to their calling cannot be specu- 

 lators or ardently given to pecuniary gains. Citizens of the country 

 and great corporations must ever be largely the recipients of the mate- 

 rial benefits of these labors. Generosity on the part of such corpora- 

 tions toward men who are devoted to the advancement of knowledge or 

 the good of the world, may be regarded as the index of their tone and 

 character. I am glad *to say that, with comparatively few exceptions, 

 I have received from the railroad men of the West every mark of ap- 

 preciation I could desire. In former reports I have frequently men- 

 tioned the cordial sympathy of the citizens of the Territories in my 

 labors. I am obliged to speak the truth as I read it in the great book 

 of nature, whether it is in accordance with the preconceived notions of 



