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Show 79 services prove satisfactory can only be retained provided continuous appropriations for the field and office work are kept up. The supply of instruments of that character calculated to be used for the class of observations needed for work in the mountain regions increases year by year, and the resulting accuracy of the work due to the improvements in those employed, and the experience of the observers, renders each year's results more and more satisfactory. Unfortunately, daring the long session of Congress, inasmuch as the work of the survey must be conducted during the summer months, ( except in cases where it should be advisable to sejid an expedition to Southern New Mexico or Arizona,) no preliminary arrangements other than of a very meager character can be made for the expedition of a season until action by Congress. Hence each season's field- work is liable to be limited. Should estimates be asked for looking to the completion of the entire survey after a certain fixed and definite standard, and with an organization selected for this express work, its systematic and vigorous prosecution would be heightened, should the same receive the approval of Congress and obtain a certain reasonable annual appropriation for its continuation. As the season of 1877 may be made a long one, it is submitted that in order to complete it the amounts estimated should be appropriated for in full. ESTIMATES. For continuing geographical survey of the territory of the United States west of the one hundredth meridian, for the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1878, being for field and office work $ 95,000 00 Distributed as follows: For parties in the field 40,000 00 For office force , 13,920 00 For transportation and purchase of animals 10,000 00 For material and outfits 6,500 00 For subsistence in the field 6,000 00 For forage, winter herding, fuel, storage, & o 9,500 00 For repairs of instruments 1,500 00 For contingencies, ( erection of observatories and monuments at astronomical and geodetic stations, & c.) 7,580 00 Total 95,000 00 For preparation, engraving, and printing the maps, charts, plates, cuts, photographic, plate and other illustrations for reports, and for additional office- room in Washington, for fiscal year ending June 30,1878 25,000 00 FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Amount remaining unexpended from the appropriation for continuing the geographical survey or the territory of the United States west of the one undredth meridian, for fiscal year ending June 30,1876 $ 2,214 75 Amount remaining unexpended from the appropriation for engraving and printing the plates and atlas sheets accompanying the report of the geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, for fiscal year ending June 30,1876 10,217 86 Amount appropriated for continuing the geographical survey of the territory of the United States west of the one hundredth meridian, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1877 20,000 00 Amount appropriated for preparing, engraving, and printing maps, cuts, plates, cnarts, and other illustrations for reports upon the geographical survey of the territory of the United States west of the one hundredth meridian, for the year ending June 30, 1877 10,000 00 All of which is respectfully submitted. GEO. M. WHEELER, First Lieut Corps of Engineers, in charge. Brig. Gen. A. A HUMPHREYS, l Chitf of Engineers, U. 8. A. |