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From page 21... ... PRINCIPAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS SINCE loll A bulletin containing data on road-building materials of Florida, and a statistical table showing the amount of improved roads built by the counties of the State to the close of 1910 was published in 1911. Press bulletins were issued on the following subjects: extinct land animals of Florida, production of phosphate rock during 1912, the utility of well records, the value to science of the fossil animal remains found embedded in the earth, clay tests for paving brick, a survey of mineral resources, phosphate production reports for 1913, 191? Read the entire page →
From page 22... ... IJnder his direction and control the corps of the Survey shall proceed to make a careful and complete geological, mineralogical, and physical survey of the State; to enter upon record, to be kept for that purpose in his office, an accurate statement of the extent of all water-powers, roads, springs, and water courses, and the climate, topography, and the general physical character of the country, and to locate the belts of ores, useful minerals, and building materials; to report characteristics and composition of soils and the deposits of marls and phosphates; to collect, analyze and classify specimens of minerals, rocks, ores, fossils, and soils and enter the same on record; to cause to be preserved in a museum specimens illustrating the geology, mineralogy, soils, and whatever else may be discovered in the mineral or geological resources of Georgia, having scientific or economic value; and he shall make a report of the survey of every county of this Sta.te accompanied with all necessary maps and illustrations. " It shall also be the duty of said State Geologist to make a survey of the water courses, ponds, lakes, and swamp regions of Georgia, and submit, in the report provided for, a topographical map showing the location, extent, means, and plans of drainage, and also an estimate of the cost of said drainage of the ponds, lakes, and swamps of Georgia. Read the entire page →
From page 23... ... PRINCIPAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS SINCE 1911 Since 1911 there has been completed the work on: the mineral springs of the State; the limestones and marls of the coastal plain; the limestone and cement materials of northern Georgia; the asbestos, talc, and soapstone deposits of the State; the feldspar and mica deposits; the bauxite and fullers' earth; a part of the pyrites deposits; the slate deposits; the manganese deposits; the barytes deposits; the sand and gravel deposits; and on the water power and a,,ricultural drainage. The work on the brown iron ores is in progress. Read the entire page →

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... PRINCIPAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS SINCE loll A bulletin containing data on road-building materials of Florida, and a statistical table showing the amount of improved roads built by the counties of the State to the close of 1910 was published in 1911. Press bulletins were issued on the following subjects: extinct land animals of Florida, production of phosphate rock during 1912, the utility of well records, the value to science of the fossil animal remains found embedded in the earth, clay tests for paving brick, a survey of mineral resources, phosphate production reports for 1913, 191?

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... IJnder his direction and control the corps of the Survey shall proceed to make a careful and complete geological, mineralogical, and physical survey of the State; to enter upon record, to be kept for that purpose in his office, an accurate statement of the extent of all water-powers, roads, springs, and water courses, and the climate, topography, and the general physical character of the country, and to locate the belts of ores, useful minerals, and building materials; to report characteristics and composition of soils and the deposits of marls and phosphates; to collect, analyze and classify specimens of minerals, rocks, ores, fossils, and soils and enter the same on record; to cause to be preserved in a museum specimens illustrating the geology, mineralogy, soils, and whatever else may be discovered in the mineral or geological resources of Georgia, having scientific or economic value; and he shall make a report of the survey of every county of this Sta.te accompanied with all necessary maps and illustrations. " It shall also be the duty of said State Geologist to make a survey of the water courses, ponds, lakes, and swamp regions of Georgia, and submit, in the report provided for, a topographical map showing the location, extent, means, and plans of drainage, and also an estimate of the cost of said drainage of the ponds, lakes, and swamps of Georgia.

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... PRINCIPAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS SINCE 1911 Since 1911 there has been completed the work on: the mineral springs of the State; the limestones and marls of the coastal plain; the limestone and cement materials of northern Georgia; the asbestos, talc, and soapstone deposits of the State; the feldspar and mica deposits; the bauxite and fullers' earth; a part of the pyrites deposits; the slate deposits; the manganese deposits; the barytes deposits; the sand and gravel deposits; and on the water power and a,,ricultural drainage. The work on the brown iron ores is in progress.

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Georgia Pages 21-23

Georgia
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