(1895-96) ANNUAL US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Pt 2 Mines Hydro-

Seventeenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1895-1896,  Part II –Economic Geology and  Hydrography,  Charles D. Walcott, Director

Publisher: Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1896.

Illustrated – maps (many folded), plates, diagrams, charts, figures, photographs, color and black and white throughout the text

 137 Plates, 111 Figures, color and black and white photographs

Bound in original brown cloth with gilt-stamped titles to spines and gilt illustration to front boards.  864 pages, 7 ¾” x 11 ¾”.  Index. Condition is good: cover shows wear; binding and text tight, clean, few marks or tears.  All illustrations very good condition, no tears found.  Weighs approximately 11 pounds.

Content:

·        The Gold Quartz Veins of Nevada City and Grass Valley, California, by Waldemar Lindgren; pages 13-262

·        Geology of Silver Cliff and the Rosita Hills, Colorado, by Whitman Cross; pages 269-403

·        The Mines of Custer  County, Colorado,  by S. F. Emmons; pages 411-472

·        Geologic Section Along the New and Kanawha Rivers in West Virginia, by M. R. Campbell and W. C. Mendenhall; coal   

·        The Tennessee Phosphates, by C. W. Hayes    

·        The Underground Water of the Arkansas Valley in Eastern Colorado, by G. K. Gilbert    

·        Preliminary Report on Artesian Waters of a Portion of the Dakotas, by N. H. Darto        

·        The Water Resources of Illinois, by Frank Leverett