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Cortland County. This region is accounted one of the best dairy sections in the state.

The Vina quadrangle of California. The area represented embraces about 150,000 acres in the most fertile part of the Sacramento Valley, including portions of Tehama, Butte, and Glenn Counties.

The Kaweah quadrangle, in California. It takes in the eastern slope of the Sierras and covers a country that ranges in elevation from 500 or 600 feet above sea-level in the valleys of the west to 12,400 feet, the height of the summits in the northeast part of the quadrangle.

The Lake City quadrangle, in Colorado. The range of altitude in the quadrangle amounts to over 6,300 feet, extending from an elevation of about 8,000 feet above sea-level on the Gunnison River, in the northeastern portion of the quadrangle, to the summit of Uncompahgre Peak, the loftiest point in southwestern Colorado, a massive mountain that rises to a height of 14,- 306 feet.

The Niwot quadrangle of Colorado. Besides the oil wells in the southwestern part of the quadrangle, this area contains extensive coal mines.

Longmont, the most important town of the quadrangle, is the center of extensive sugar-beet and canning industries. The whole quadrangle is covered with fine farms, on which large crops of hay , alfalfa, and fruit are raised. The high degree of cultivation seen here is due to an extensive system of irrigation. The water for this purpose is taken from Boulder, Lefthand, and St Vrain Creeks.

The Osoyoos quadrangle, in Okanogan County, Washington. This quadrangle, which lies immediately south of the international boundary line and west of the Republic quadrangle, embraces an area of nearly 800 square miles.

The Ovando quadrangle, in Montana, about two-thirds of which is in the

Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve, just west of the Continental Divide in northern Montana.

Weston and Vadis quadrangles, in West Virginia, which include portions of Harrison, Upshur, Lewis, Doddridge, and Gilmer Counties, constituting a region that is interesting for its undeveloped coal fields.

Salineville quadrangle, which is situated in the east central part of Ohio. It embraces about 226 square miles and contains portions of Columbiana, Carroll, and Jefferson Counties.

The topographic maps of the United States Geological Survey have gained wide popularity in the last nine years. Whereas only 86,974 maps were distributed in 1895, there were 501,775 maps sent out in 1904. These were distributed as follows: through retail sale, 47,906 ; through wholesale sale, 293,653 ; through members of Congress, 2 7>987 I to libraries and institutions, 75,112; for official use, 57,117. Although the retail price of each map is only five cents and the wholesale price but two cents, the considerable sum of $8,976.36 was received for maps.

THE following consular reports give facts of interest in different parts of the world. Persons may obtain from the Bureau of Statistics copies of these reports, as long as a limited edition will permit, by giving the number of the report desired :

Damascus-Mecca Railroad, No. 2 1 91 . — The road has been completed as far as Ma'an, 300 miles south of Damascus.

Trade and Possibilities of Arabia, No. 2190. — Probably few people except the Germans realize the possibilities of Arabia. With irrigation and railways the country could be vastly developed.

Trade of Japan During the War, No. 2190. — The exports increased $15,000,000 and the imports $25,ooo,ooo dur-