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and winter of 1907-8 under a special appropriation for the purpose. 

 The drill cores have been securely boxed and stored in the museum. 

 As a result of the field investigations which have extended over 

 every part of the Clinton formation in its extent from Herkimer 

 county on the east to Niagara county on the west, the distribution 

 of the ore seams has been ascertained in a general way with some 

 definiteness. Though the seams are nearly everywdiere present 

 over the middle part of the belt, it is only in a relatively few areas 

 that they are of size and character to have possible value for min- 

 ing. The main resources are represented by the areas lying in 

 Oneida, Cayuga and Wayne counties. Sufficient information is 

 not yet at hand to afford a full and exact estimate of the quantity 

 available, but a calculation based on seams above 18 inches thick 

 and within 500 feet from the surface indicates that there is fully 

 600,000,000 tons of ore within these areas. With a total produc- 

 tion of but 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 tons it is evident that the re- 

 sources are capable of a much larger development than they have 

 undergone up to the present time. 



Mines and quarries. The annual bulletin presenting the develop- 

 ments and production statistics of all the mineral industries of the 

 State was published in July, bringing the record down to the end 

 of 1907. It is proposed to continue its issue, but for the current 

 year the work of canvassing the industries will be carried out 

 under cooperation with the United States Geological Survey. 

 According to the plan adopted there is to be collected only a single 

 set of returns, and the compilations will be made available for 

 the uses of both offices. 



MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DIVISION OF MINERAL. 

 RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND 

 THE STATISTICAL BRANCH OF THE NEW YORK 

 STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



hi order to avoid a multiplicity of requests for statistical infor- 

 mation for mine and quarry operations and also in order that the 

 State Geologist may keep in touch with the mineral producers in 

 the economic development of mineral resources of the State, the 

 following agreement between the State Geologist and the Divi- 

 sion of Mineral Resources of the Tinted States Geological Survey 

 is made : 



Early in the fall of each year (by October 1st if possible) a list 

 of the 'mineral producers in" the State of New York, as the United 

 States Geological Survey has them, is to he sent to the State Geol- 

 ogist who will check with the lists in the possession of the State 



