People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — Geological survey. [ARTICLE]

Geological survey.

The geological survey will not attempt to till much space with specimens. There will not be over four hundred of them, but they will be typical. The borings in different parts of the state show the actual thickness of strata. A large map showing the geological areas of the state will form part, of the exhibit. The economic portion of the display will Ae devoted tp investigations in coal strata principally, and some new points in that industry will be shown. 'Hie Worthy collection, from which- the original descriptions of rtute geology were writ ten. h’s.kM p'-rfased by the board, and will be Added to the exhibit.

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