IV PREFACE. 



knows to be best in case it were sure to be completed, bnt 

 such as will ensure the most creditable results for the short 

 time he may have charge of it. Thus, the full realization 

 of the objects for which the people, through their represen- 

 tatives, support these works, is seldom attained. 



In gathering together the results of the past four year's 

 labor to be embodied in this report, which is ordered to be 

 published without further addition, it has been my aim to so 

 arrange and present them that the subjects treated should be 

 not only as complete in themselves, as the circumstances 

 would permit, but that the report should also serve as a 

 basis for future labor of the kind, if the legislature should 

 ever order it. 



Besides the mention in my letter to the Governor, on pages 

 three and four, of persons who have conferred especial favor 

 while the survey was in progress, I desire here to acknow- 

 ledge the earnest efforts of the publishers, Messrs. Mills & 

 Co., to present the work to the public in a creditable manner 

 in all its parts. 



C. A. WHITE. 



