Charles M. Hall. — Upham. 197 
F. H. Newell and Milton Whitney, of the U. S. Geological 
Survey, in their respective departments of hydrology and soil 
investigations. Manuscript reports and maps, notes of stream 
measurements, records of artesian wells, collections and an- 
alyses of soils, etc., relating to parts of these researches already 
completed or well advanced, had been forwarded to Wash- 
ington, but they still await publication. 
Professor Hall had presented some of the results of this 
work in a series of newspaper articles, concerning the water 
supply of Fargo, the artesian basin and wells of the Red river 
valley and westward, irrigation for the drier western parts 
of the state, and the capabilities of its different regions for 
agriculture and grazing, these articles being published in the 
Fargo Fovuui and Daily Republican, the Wahpeton Gaaette, 
the Minneapolis Journal, and other newspapers, during the 
years 1900 to 1902. 
One of the most important of these contributions is en- 
titled "A Discussion of the Water Resources of Fargo and 
Vicinity, with special consideration of possible sources of 
water for a better supply for the city,'' which filled four col- 
umns of the Forum, June 24, 1902. It is accompanied with a 
section across the Red river valley, on the line of the Northern 
Pacific railway, and 'a map which shows the limit of the chief 
artesian basin, receiving water from the Dakota sandstone, 
and the smaller areas of the valley receiving usually scantier 
flows from the drift deposits. 
Within the last month before his death, he completed a 
manuscript for the supplement in a school geography to be 
published by the American Book Company, this supplement 
being a "Geography of North Dakota." 
Professor Hall represented his state through appointment 
by the governor, in the Tenth National Irrigation Congress, 
held at Colorado Springs, October 6 to 9 of last year ; and in 
the Fargo Forum of November 22 he published a consider- 
able report of its proceedings, with earnest recommendation 
that North Dakota should take a larger share, in connection 
with the U. S. geological and hydrographical surveys, for the 
^development of irrigation. 
The latest and perhaps the most important work which 
professor Hall brouglit to completion and publication, as print- 
