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Show 4 REPORT. APPENDIX E E. ANNUAL EEPORT OF LIEUTENANT GEORGE M. WHEELER, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, UPON EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS WEST OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN, IN NEVADA, UTAH, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO; AND ARIZONA, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30,1873. UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, Explorations west of the One Hundredth Meridian, In the field, June 30,1873. GENERAL : I have the honor to submit the following annual report upon explorations and surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1873. The following officers of engineers have been connected with the survey during the entire year, viz: First Lieut. It. L. Hoxie, now in charge of " main field- party No. 2, and First Lieut. William L. Marshall, at present in charge of main field- party No. 3. First Lieut. S. E. Tillman, Corps of Engineers, has been ordered to report for duty upou the survey in August, when he will be placed in charge of one of the divisions of main party No. 1. Second Lieut. William A. Dinwiddie, Second United States Cavalry, had charge of the escort for main party No. 1, in 1872, and Second Lieut. Wallace Mott, Thirteenth United States Infantry, held a like position in relation to the escort for the second main party of the season. Second Lieut. A. H. Eussell, Third United States Cavalry, acts as acting assistant quartermaster, acting commissary subsistence, and ordnance officer to the expedition of 1873, and Second Lieut. L. H. Walker, Fifteenth United States Infantry, has been assigned to the command of the escort Dr. H. C. Yarrow, acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, accompanied the expedition of 1872 as surgeon and naturalist, as also Hospital Steward Theodore V. Brown, who has been connected with the survey since the early spring of 1871, adding to his regular duties those of a meteorological observer. Dr. C. G. Newberry, acting assistant surgeon United States Army, has joined the expedition of 1873, in the capacity of surgeon and ornithologist, and Dr. E. J. Eothrock, acting assistant surgeon United States Array, includes with his medical duties those of a botanist and general collector. The expedition of 1872, besides officers, had for its personnel three astronomers, four topographers, two meteorologists, one naturalist, and one photographer, as assistants, with the requisite number of guides, cargadores, packers, drivers, laborers, & c, an escort, consisting of fifty-seven enlisted men from Camp Douglas, for the guarding of the different parties and for their protection against hostile Indians. The expedition, for the present season, has the following number of civilians in a professional capacity, viz: Five astronomers, six topographers, two meteorologists, four geologists, three naturalists, and one photographer, as assistants. Certain of these gentlemen, and especially those in the astronomical and geological departments, are, as has heretofore been the case, to be called upon for reports, giving an individual expression of results, guided by individual responsibility. |