The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1935, Page 3

VERRET'S: PROPOSAL WOULD END ILLEGAL SPENDING BY CITIES Advocates ‘Department of Mun- \clpal Affairs’ to Control Expenditures To halt what he termed “illegal spending” on the part of political sub- divisions in the state, Charles Verret, assistant attorney general, Thursday Proposed creation, by legislative enactment, of a “department of mu- nicipal affairs.” Verret would place in the hands of the proposed department all control of expenditures by various municipali- ties and other taxing units in the state. The department would “not tell counties and other similar units what they could do—but it would tell them what they could not do in connection a expenditure of funds,” Verret sabi. He proposed that in the hands of the department be placed power to refuse counties, school districts or other civil governmental groups the right to issue warrants or other types of promises to pay in excess of their ower to pay. Verret said the number of “illegal warrants which have been issued by counties is astounding.” He said he believed many counties had taken ad- vantage of legislative enactment which allows counties to issue war- rants in anticipation of tax collec- tions, for payment of current debts, incurred in actual operation. It was Verret’s contention that many of the counties had issued tax anticipation warrants for purposes which he termed illegal within inter- pretation of the law. Payment by tax anticipation war- rants for road work and similar pieces of construction he termed illegal. It ‘was Verret's contention counties had no right to exceed their normal rev- enue for this purpose. Under the proposed law, which Verret has not yet worked out com- pletely, counties might enter into road building contracts but the projected department would have the power of withholding payment, unless the con- tractor agreed to wait for his money until payment was available, without issuance of anticipation warrants. Many financial difficulties now be- setting counties could .have been avoided by “intelligent handling of funds and expected funds,” Verret claimed. State Mill, Elevator Checked by Auditors Grand Forks, Jan. 3.—(?)—State auditors began the semi-annual check of the state mill and elevator Wed- nesday. The period of the audit will cover operation from July 31, 1934, to Jan. 1, 1935, an extra month being included in last summer's audit to cover the period up to the time that ©. B. Lund became general manager. ‘The present audit will require about two months. Grinding of flour was halted Thursday to permit taking of an inventory, which was expected to require two or three days. More progress was made in science during the 19th century than in all preceding centuries, Yy WY x ft} keke ee ete THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY er, prospector, The nicaN | Gove Today by Frederic J.Haskin HA Condensed Chapter from the Authors New Book’ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1935 weaeekaekekek make plants grow, and potash for ‘Washington, D. C., Jan. 3—Explor-| fertiliser. Scarcely a day passes that map maker, and!some valuable information is not guardian of mineral deposits—these | added to the store of knowledge about some of the roles that Uncle Sam} what the country holds. A series of Plays through the United States|reports, emanating from the Wash- Geological Survey. As a fact-finding | ington headqua.ters, announces the agency the survey is busy over a wide | discoveries to the public. These re- and far-flung domain, It explores | ports guide the riners and prospect- the wilderness and charts it as well|org in their own exploring activities, as the more settled areas. An out-land enable them to narrow down standing example among its explor-|their searches. They have helped to Ba ee was that by smalliadd many millions of dollars to the ts through the Grand Canyon, |developed wealth of the American where extremely valuable results in topographic mapping and in informa- | Pe°Ple. tion as to geology and the available Many important contributions have sites for great dams were obtained |een made by the geological survey only through the greatest daring and|!m the fields of petroleum discovery fortitude on the part of its engineers,|@Md production. Here and there its Incidentally, during that expedition |Se0logists have detected structural the engineers had some shocks wholly ;Conditions favorable to oil and gas apart from the hazards they braved.| Occurrence where the less methodical Though isolated in the depths of the| Prospector or wildcatter had found canyon, through their portable radio/none, and throughout the petroleum they learned of the death of Presi-| world its mapping of structure, its dent Harding within a few minutes | appraisals of productive possibilities, after it occurred and before it was|and its hypotheses relating to petro- known to most people of the country; Jeum origin and ocurrence command Mkewise they heard of the anxiety|the highest respect. In the oil fields of their friends for their safety, be-|of the public domain and of the In- cause the su wreckage of one}dian wards of the federal government of their boats had been seen farther | its petroleum engineers exercise sup- down the river. ervision over prospecting, drilling, and The Geological Survey was created} production operations, gage the pro- by congress March 3, 1879, upon the| duction, and determine the royalties recommendation ‘of the National/due. Similarly, its mining engineers Academy of Sciences. Its first duties] supervise the operations of the pros- were the classification of the public/pector and the miner of coal, phos- lands and examination of the geo-| phate rock, potash, sodium, oil shale, logical structure, mineral resources,|and ‘sulphur on government and In- and products of the national domain,'dian lands, and exert a wholesome in- entire country, and the latter the nature and ar-| completed, maps has been carried on by that it is far from ended, topographic, have been prepared and published on small scales. Surveys recording geologic for complete information, on scales topographic map has come to have a! adequate to show the necessary de- high value as a groundwork for all| thousands of them will be required to lode. By means of automatic record- tails, are going steadily forward. The cngineering planning, such as rail- topographic mapping on the large road and standard scales has thus far covered bridge building and the location of| less than half the country. When other edifices. It is the one great, January fie a if the map could be rangement of its rocky materials. The; printed on a single sheet of paper it work of making and publishing these would cover nearly an acre of ground. the Congress has authorized its comple- geological survey for more than half tion by 1944. About 1,400,000 square ® century, yet it is so huge a task miles exclusive of Alaska and Hawali | have been mapped, and the work has Preliminary or progress maps of the been completed in ten states, the Dis- both geologic and trict of Columbia and Hawaii. Aside from its value as a base for/is not feasible to print highway construction, United Legere ae benag Lear also it seeks out the presence of un- on one of several standard scales, the most general being 1 mile to the inch,| CeTsround water. Tis water et When it is recalled that the ordinary| Sometimes in desert places, by drill geography or atlas map is on a scale|ing far below the surface. Some- of 300 to 500 miles to the inch, it is| times it spouts up with great energy seen how huge a chart this will be| from artesian wells, making life and when finally completed. Of course it) production possible in what otherwise it on a) would be desolate regions. A find of information the| single sheet of paper, but it is pro-| artesian water may be almost as im- duced on sheets 17x20 inches, and| portant as the discovery of a gold represent the entire country. |ing instruments installed on obser The survey's work in connection; vation wells in the principal water- | with water has many ramifications.) bearing formations, the survey ob- | Just as it looks for solid minerals be-| tains continuous records of the de- In more than half a century of ex-| fluence throughout the several indus- istence, other duties have been added,| tries involved in th. directions of some of which gradually grew to such| safety, efficiency, and conservation. proportions that they were separated} Recognition of the value of rich and made the functions of still newer} metals is so alluring that nearly agencies such as the bureau of eth-|everyone who in the course of a walk nology, the bureau of reclamation,/finds a stone which gives back bright and the bureau of mines, glints to the sun, or reveals peculiar The survey's headquarters, with|coloring, wopuers whether he has Offices, laboratories, and other facili-|found gold or some other valuable ties, is in the Department of the In-| mineral. The result is that hund- terior Building at Washington, but ite reds of specimens of rock annually most fascinating work is done in the; are sent to the survey with requests field. Constantly, parties are out in|for advice as to their nature and the wide spaces of the west and else-/value. These go first to a general where on American territory, prose-| expert, who can determine at a glance cuting their never-ending search.|the nature of most of the samples. Their boats, their packtrains, and|Nine out of ever: ten either are not their sleds are familiar to the herds|especially valuable or are entirely of seal and the Eskimos in Alaska,| worthless, and the inquirers are ad- and the Rocky Mountain goat sees| vised not to waste money on assays them climbing the peaks and travers-/or in attempts to develop a worth- ing the passes of the highest ranges.|/less property. Those les con- Exerts Influence in Many Industries|cerning which the initial examiner Careless of hardship and danger,|has any doubt are referred to special- these surveying parties range the na-| ists who are familiar with particular tional domain in the constant hunt|minerals or the locality from which for the treasures that are to be) the specimens come. found in the earth’s rocky crust—oil| Production of Large Scale Maps and gas to turn the wheels of indus-| Just as a man who is building a try, silver and gold for money and| factory for intensive use desires an adornments, copper for electric wires,|exact plan of the construction of his lead and zine for their commoner but | workshop, so it is desirable that the important uses, marble for monu-/American people have a thorough ments, granite and limestone for; plan of their country, which is their building, sand and pebbles for con-| workshop. 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