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THIRTEENTH REPORT. 
TABLE SHOWING PROGRESS OF TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEY IN STATES IN WHICH THE 
STATE AND FEDERAL SURVEYS CO-OPERATE. 
State. 
State 
appropria- 
tion. 
U. S. 
appropria- 
tion. 
Surveyed in 
1909-10. 
Square miles. 
Total 
surveyed to 
July 1, 1910. 
Square miles. 
Total areas 
surveyed to 
July 15, 1910 
in per cent. 
West Virginia 
$15,000 
3,000 
$15,000 
4 , 000 
24,120 
10,771 
99. S 
S8 
Maryland 
321 
New York 
Virginia 
7,000 
1 ,750 
7,000 
1,750 
15,000 
649 
40,221 
29 980 
81 
70 
Ohio 
15 i 000 
2,022 
27,319 
67 
California 
14,000 
14,000 
8,183 
92,914 
59 
Missouri 
4,500 
4,500 
320 
34 , 692 
50 
Pennsylvania , 
4,238 
4,238 
629 
22,813 
50 
Kentucky 
5,000 
2,500 
5,000 
2,500 
329 
243 
16,476 
17,661 
41 
North Carolina 
34 
Washington 
10,000 
10,000 
2,228 
20,754 
30 
Texas 
20,000 
20,000 
493 
66 , 807 
25 
Maine 
3 , 500 
3,500 
402 
7,801 
24 
Iowa 
1 , 7 50 
1,750 
182 
10,448 
19 
Oregon 
2,500 
2,500 
605 
18,279 
19 
Illinois 
17 , 500 
12,500 
1,136 
10,082 
IS 
Louisiana 
20,000 
6,700 
300 
8,283 
17 
Michigan 
2 , 000 
2 , 000 
439 
4,924 
8 
Minnesota 
10,000 
5 , 000 
495 
5 , 582 
4 
The slow progress of the topographic survey in this state is due to 
the failure of the legislature to appropriate money in proportion to the 
value and importance of the work, and in great measure to the apathy 
of the engineers, educators, and others who understand the utility and 
the importance of a completed topographic atlas from both the economic 
and the purely educational view points. It is necessary that the legisla- 
ture be convinced of the importance and value of the topographic atlas 
before it will acquiesce in the expenditure of public money for its rapid 
completion. Let every resident member of the Michigan Academy of 
Science constitute himself a committee of one to take this matter up 
With the senator and representative from the district in which he lives 
urging the desirability of the early completion of the topographic atlas 
of the state and much will be done thereby toward securing an appro- 
priation for this work in keeping with its value and importance to the 
development of the state. 
