Underground water in the valleys of Utah Lake and Jordan River, Utah
George Burr Richardson
1906, Water Supply Paper 157
The valleys of Utah Lake and Jordan River are situated in north-central Utah, in the extreme eastern part of the Great Basin. The lofty Wasatch Range (Pl. I), the westernmost of the Rocky Mountain system, limits the valleys on the east, and relatively low basin ranges - the Oquirrh, Lake,...
Underground water resources of Long Island, New York
A. C. Veatch, Charles Sumner Slichter, Isaiah Bowman, W.O. Crosby, R.E. Horton
1906, Professional Paper 44
As Long Island is the largest island on the eastern coast of the United States, and is of such size, 120 miles long and 23 miles wide, that it is a more or less noticeable feature on even very small-scale maps, little need be said of its general geographic position....
Geology and water resources of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
C.A. Fisher
1906, Professional Paper 53
This paper is the result of field work done during the seasons of 1904 and 1905 It is designed mainly to furnish information regarding geologic structure and the prospects for underground water. The description of the formations of the Bighorn Mountain area is chiefly the work of N. H. Darton,...
Zinc and lead deposits of the Upper Mississippi Valley
Harry Foster Bain
1906, Bulletin 294
The zinc and lead mines of the upper Mississippi Valley are in the southwest portion of Wisconsin and in adjacent parts of Illinois mid Iowa. The boundaries of the region are in part indefinite, since sporadic occurrences of the minerals are found outside the mining region proper. It is usual...
Silverton folio, Colorado
Whitman Cross, Ernest Howe, F. L. Ransome
1905, Folios of the Geologic Atlas 120
The term San Juan region, or simply "the San Juan," used with variable meaning by early explorers, and naturally with indefinite limitation during the period of settlement, is now quite generally applied to a large tract of mountainous country in southwestern Colorado, together with an undefined zone of lower country...
Development of underground waters in the eastern coastal plain region of southern California
Walter Curran Mendenhall
1905, Water Supply Paper 137
No abstract available....
The hydrology of San Bernardino Valley, California
Walter C. Mendenhall
1905, Water Supply Paper 142
The San Bernardino basin lies near the eastern end of the valley of southern California. Under the latter term is included that general lowland area which is definitely limited on the north by the San Gabriel and San Bernardino ranges and on the east by the latter range and the...
Underground waters of eastern United States
Myron L. Fuller
1905, Water Supply Paper 114
The present paper is a brief summary of the underground water conditions in eastern United States, prepared to meet the demands of drillers and others for information relating to the general water resources of the various States or of specified regions.The detail with which the several regions or subjects are...
Preliminary list of deep borings in the United States
Nelson Horatio Darton
1905, Water Supply Paper 149
The first preliminary list of deep borings in the United States was issued as Water-Supply Papers Nos. 57 and 61. The present publication includes all of the wells listed in these two papers, together with many additional borings, mostly of recent date. Messrs. M. L. Fuller and A. C. Veatch,...
Contributions to the hydrology of Eastern United States, 1905
M. L. Fuller
1905, Water Supply Paper 145
Contributions to the hydrology of eastern United States, 1904
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1905, Water Supply Paper 110
Forest conditions in the Gila River Forest Reserve, New Mexico
T. F. Rixon
1905, Professional Paper 39
The Gila River Forest Reserve was established by proclamation of President McKinley on March 2, 1899. The following is a statement of the boundaries as laid down in the proclamation: "Beginning at a point on the boundary line between New Mexico and Arizona, where it is intersected by the north...
Preliminary report on the geology and underground water resources of the central Great Plains
N. H. Darton
1905, Professional Paper 32
The area to which this report relates is shown in Pl. II. It comprises the greater portions of South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and of Wyoming, an area of about one-half million square miles. It is the result of my investigations during the past...
Preliminary report on the geology of the Arbuckle and Wichita mountains in Indian Territory and Oklahoma
J. A. Taff, H. F. Bain
1904, Professional Paper 31
The Arbuckle Mountains consist of a moderately elevated table -land or plateau in the east-central part of the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. The plateau ranges in elevation from 1,300 feet above sea, in its contracted western part, to 750 feet, at the east end, where it coalesces with the bordering...
Forest conditions in the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, Arizona
J. B. Leiberg, T. F. Rixon, Arthur Dodwell, F. G. Plummer
1904, Professional Paper 22
On April 12, 1902, President Roosevelt issued a proclamation "for the purpose of consolidating into one reserve the lands heretofore embraced in the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserves and of including therein the other adjacent lands within Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, and is described by metes and bound as follows: ''Beginning...
Zinc and lead deposits of northern Arkansas
George I. Adams, A. H. Purdue, E. F. Burchard, E. O. Ulrich
1904, Professional Paper 24
The field work on which this report is based was carried on during the months of July, August, and September, 1902. The writer was assisted by Prof. A. H. Purdue, of the University of Arkansas, and Mr. Ernest F. Burchard. The larger portion of the time was used in the...
Forest conditions in the Absaroka division of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Montana and the Livingston and Big Timber quadrangles
J. B. Leiberg
1904, Professional Paper 29
The tract of land here designated the Absaroka division of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve was originally the Absaroka Forest Reserve. By proclamation of January 29, 1903, this reserve was merged with the Teton and the Yellowstone forest reserves, the whole taking the name of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve. The western,...
Newcastle folio, Wyoming-South Dakota
N.H. Darton
1904, Folios of the Geologic Atlas 107
The Newcastle quadrangle embraces the quarter of a square degree which lies between parallels 43° 30' and 44° north latitude and meridians 104° and 104° 30' west longitude. It measures approximately 34 1/2 miles from north to south and 25 1/8 from east to west, and its area is 863...
Cottonwood Falls folio, Kansas
Charles Smith Prosser, Joshua William Beede
1904, Folios of the Geologic Atlas 109
The Cottonwood Falls quadrangle lies between parallels 38° and 38° 30' and meridians 96° 30' and 97°, and therefore constitutes a quarter of a square degree of the earth's surface. It is 34.35 miles long and 26.75 miles wide, and contains about 938 square miles. It is located east...
Contributions to the hydrology of eastern United States, 1903
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1904, Water Supply Paper 102
Water resources of the Philadelphia district
Florence Bascom
1904, Water Supply Paper 106
The area included in the Philadelphia district lies between 39° 45' and 40° 15' north latitude and 75° and 75° 30' west longitude. It has a length of 34.50 miles from north to south and a width of 26.53 miles from east to west, and covers one-fourth of a square...
Forest conditions in the Black Mesa Forest Reserve, Arizona
F. G. Plummer, T. F. Rixon, Arthur Dodwell
1904, Professional Paper 23
The Black Mesa Forest Reserve, in Arizona, was created by proclamation of President McKinley dated August 17, 1898. The following are its boundaries; "Beginning at a point on the boundary line between Arizona and New Mexico where it is intersected by the north line of township seven (7) north, range...
Contributions to the geology of Washington
G. O. Smith, Bailey Willis
1903, Professional Paper 19
Central Washington includes a part of two great topographic provinces; the great plain of the Columbia and the Cascade Range. The former, in its position and general desert-like character, suggests at once a resemblance to the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada; and the vastness of the desert plain is...
The clays of the United States east of the Mississippi River
Henrich Ries
1903, Professional Paper 11
NATURE OF CLAY. The term clay is applied to a natural substance or rock which, whenfinely ground and mixed with water, forms a pasty, moldable mass that preserves its shape when air dried, and when burned changes to a hard, rock-like substance by the coalescence of its particles, through softening under...
Tishomingo folio, Indian Territory
Joseph A. Taff
1903, Folios of the Geologic Atlas 98
The Tishomingo quadrangle is bounded by meridians 96° 30' and 97° and parallels 34° and 34° 30', and occupies one-quarter of a square degree of the earth's surface. It is 34.5 miles long north and south and 28.58 miles wide, and contains about 986 square miles. It lies in the...
