ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. 
XIII 
garding the minerals/ water supply and other natural resources of 
the State, including the occurrence and location of minerals and 
other deposits of value, surface and subterranean water supply and 
power and mineral waters and the best and most economic methods 
of development, together with analysis of soils, minerals and mineral 
waters, with maps, charts and drawings of the same. 
A distinctly educational function of the Survey is indicated by 
Section 4 of the law, which makes it the duty of the State Geologist 
to make collections of specimens, illustrating the geological and min¬ 
eral features of the State, duplicate sets of which shall be deposited 
with each of the State colleges. The publication of annual reports 
is provided for as a means of disseminating the information ob¬ 
tained in the progress of the Survey. 
The Survey is thus intended to serve on the one hand an eco¬ 
nomic, and on the other an educational purpose. 
In its economic relations a State Survey touches on very varied 
interests of the State’s development. In its results it may be ex¬ 
pected, judging from the experience of similar surveys in other 
States, to contribute not so much to sensational or sudden develop¬ 
ment of geat mineral deposits as to an intelligent development of 
the State’s natural resources. Its educational value is of no less im¬ 
mediate concern to the State, both to the citizens within the State 
and to prospective citizens without. 
A knowledge of the soil and of the available water supply is 
very necessary to successful agriculture, and the Survey’s investiga¬ 
tions along these lines are of value to all landowners. A knowledge 
of the mineral deposits, which may lie beneath the surface, is like¬ 
wise necessary to a correct valuation of land. The relation of the 
State Survey to the ownership of mineral lands is specifically de¬ 
fined. The Survey laAV provides that it shall be the duty of the 
State Geologist and his assistants, when they discover any mineral 
deposits or substances of value, to notify the owners of the land upon 
which such deposits occur before disclosing their location to any 
other person or persons. Failure to do so is punishable by fine and 
imprisonment. It is not intended by the law, however, that the 
State Geologist’s time shall be devoted to examinations and reports 
upon the value of private mineral lands. Reports of this character 
are properly the province of commercial geologists, who may be 
employed by owners of land for that purpose. To accomplish the 
best results, the work of the Survey must be in accordance with 
definite plans by which the State’s resources are investigated in an 
orderly manner. Only such examinations of private lands can be 
