SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, 867.} Virginia, Storey County, Nevada, Feb. 11th, 1867. To His Excellency H. G. BLASDEL, Governor of Nevada : SIR-I herewith transmit, at the moment of its completion, my report for 1866. A failure on the part of County Assessors and County Surveyors to comply with their duty in relation to this office, will account for many deficiencies in the report. The dilatory action of those who partially complied with the law, will account for much of the delay in sending in my report - some of theirs not having been received until January. An almost total neglect on the part of the Legislature to make provision for necessary expenses of this office. (in the opinion of the Board of Examiners) will account for the rest of the delay, and for most other deficiencies. I am very respectfully, Your obedient servant, S. H. MARLETTE, TABULAR LIST OF MILLS CRUSHING ORE FROM MINES ON THE COM- In Storey, Lyon, Ormsby, and Washoe Counties. Notes on Mills in Storey, Lyon, Ormsby and Washoe Counties... 25-6 SIR-In compliance with "An Act concerning the office of Surveyor General," I respectfully submit the following report: GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION AND AREA OF THE STATE. The State extends from about the 35th to the 42d degree of North latitude, and from the 37th to the 43d degree of longitude West from Washington (114° to 120° West from Greenwich). 458 In my former report, on the authority of the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the area of the State was given as 81,539 square miles, or 52,184,960 acres. Congress, last session, cut off from Utah and added to Nevada, a strip of land one degree of longitude in width, and five degrees of latitude in length, containing 18,426 square miles, or 11,792,933 acres. An irregular tract lying between the Colorado River on the east, California on the west, and the parallel of 37° North latitude, was taken from Arizona, and given to Nevada-equal, according to a statement of the R. R. Reveille, to 7,823,926 acres (12,224 1000 square miles). 884 1000 342 From the above data, the area of the State would be 112,190 square miles, or 71,801,819 acres. The R. R. Reveille states the area to be 71,751,741 acres, as copied in the Gold Hill News-less by 50,078 acres than the preceding estimate. 342 Assuming the water surface of the several lakes in the State to cover an area of 1,690 square miles, or 1,081,819 acres, there will remain 110,500 square miles, or 70,720,000 acres, as the land area of the State. |