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Show 4 . zona. Several primary astronomical stations will be determined in addition to astrouomical observations in the field; and the astronomical observatory at Ogden, Utah, will be well advanced toward completion. Lieutenant Wheeler submits estimates - For contiuuing the exploration $ 95,000 For engraving and printing the plates and atlaa- aheets accompanying the reports of the geographical explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian 25,000 His annual report and estimates are appended. ( See Appendix FF 1 and FF 2.) Lieutenant Wheeler has also submitted a report of Prof. E. D. Oope, paleontologist, from his camp, ou Galinas Creek, in the Bio Grande basin, including a description of new species of vertebrate fossils, and of an extensive series of deposits of the Eocene age, indicating the existence, in earlier geological time, of an extensive lake of fresh water in that part of New Mexico. The collections made and to be made by this special party are likely to prove of unusual interest. ( See Appendix FF 3.) • • • • • • • R E P O R T . APPENDIX FF. ANNUAL REPORT OF LIEUTENANT GEORGE M. WHEELER, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1874. GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS WEST OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN, IN CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, UTAH, ARIZONA, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, WYOMING, AND MONTANA. Season1 8 operations. UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS WEST OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN, Washington, 2>. ft, June 30, 1874. GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following annual report upon geographical explorations and surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874. Toward the close of the last fiscal year, the expedition of 1873 had taken the field in three separate divisions from Salt Lake City, Utah, Denver, Col., and Santa F6, N. Mex. The Salt Lake division, under Lieut. R. L. Hoxie, Corps of Engineers, crossed the Colorado River near the mouth of Paria Creek, emerging npon the mesa to the southward, in the vicinity of El Vado de los Padres; from thence making its way to the southward, joined the southern or main division, operating in the territory in New Mexico and Arizona but little known, lying between the thirty- fifth and the thirty- second parallel after it had completed the duties assigned to it in atlas rectangles 50 and 59. |