ttooDE.] FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 63 
1 =69.097 miles =364,882 feet. 
1' =1,853. 16 meters. 
log. 1 " =30. 886 meters, 1 . 489762 
log. 24". 44 1.388101 
log. 754. 85 meters = 2. 877863 
1,853.16 
log. 2, 608. 01 meters, 3. 41 6309 
log. meters to feet, 0. 515984 
log. 8,554 feet = 3.932293 
364, 832 
373, 386 feet. 
Correction ' = +21 
373, 407 feet, total distance. 
FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 
A financial statement is presented below showing how the amount 
appropriated for the survey of the boundary line was expended. As 
already mentioned, however, this amount does not represent the 
entire cost of the work, for the greater portion of the animals and 
outfit were transferred from other localities, where they had been 
used by parties of the Geological Survey working under other appro- 
priations. Further, it was possible to use a portion of the triangula- 
tion done in connection with the forest surveys, and the expenses of 
the party while engaged in sketching topography were charged in 
part against the appropriation for topographic surveys. No portion 
of the salary of the geographer in charge of the work was paid from 
the appropriation for the boundary line, nor were any office salaries 
charged against it. But for this material assistance, which did not 
in any way detract from other work, the cost of the boundary survey 
would probably have been increased more than twofold. On the 
other hand, a large portion of what was accomplished in connection 
with the boundary line can be utilized in other directions. The appro- 
priation of $7,650 was originally made for expenditure during the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. The unexpended balance on that 
date was, however, made available by act of Congress for the year 
ending June 30, 1899, and again, in a similar manner, the unexpended 
balance at the latter date was reappropriated for the fiscal year end- 
ing June 30, 1900. The appropriation became practically exhausted 
in October, 1899. 
1 By triangulation connection with Mooyie Trail monument, the position of this monument 
is 0."21 farther north than as given by the international boundary survey, hence to reduce all 
positions to the international-boundary survey system, latitudes of United States Geological 
Survey triangulation are decreased 0".21, or its equivalent, 21 feet, the distance from initial 
point on Bitterroot Mountains to forty-ninth parallel being increased 21 feet. 
