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<br />000005 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />- SIGN POSTS OF PROGRESS - <br /> <br />Fiscal Year 1948 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Bureau of Reclamation: <br /> <br />Total value of new construction contracts awarded..$ 33,013,719 <br /> <br />Value of all constracts in force during FY48.......$101,037,933 <br /> <br />Total estimated over-all cost of units in construction phase: <br /> <br />June 30, 1947...$455,049,000 <br />June 30, 1948...0703,659,000 <br /> <br />Number of farms opened for settlement, FY48...,.. 86 <br /> <br />Number of settlers located on new land, Fy48.....153 (8790 acres) <br /> <br />Fish and Wildlife Service: Initiated basin-wide surveys of fish and <br />wildlife habitats. Issued 17 reports on fish and wildlife <br />studies on reservoirs in the Missouri River Basin. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Bureau of Indian Affairs: Settlement arranged for taking Indian <br />lands at Garrison damsite. <br /> <br />Bureau of Land Y~nagement: Use-capability classification of 1,721,925 <br />acres of public domain in Missouri River Basin. Cadastral Survey <br />re-estab1ished section corners and lines on 2,085,380 acres in <br />the Basin. <br /> <br />Bureau of Mines: Issued 16 reports during the fiscal year on mineral <br />development possibilities in the Basin. <br /> <br />National Park Service: Issued 29 reports on recreatienal development <br />at reservoirs in the Basin. <br /> <br />Smithsonian Institution: Recovery of historical remains at Medicine <br />Creek Dam, using power equipment. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />U. S. Geological Survey: Operated 665 gaging stations in Missouri <br />River Basin; carried on groundwater studies on 33 units; con- <br />tinued the quality-of-water investigations at 79 locatiens in <br />the Basin; measured the sediment discharge for 60 different <br />stations; issued runoff tables of streams in the Basin; pub- <br />lished mineral resource maps for 5 states in the Basin; and <br />accelerated topographic mapping of the Basin. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />3 <br />