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. . !l.!!!! Authorized - 0 Controlled -40 Compiled -22 I'ublished - 2 Quadrangles controlled were west of Duchesne and in the north end of the 'Confusion Range. Compilation centered in the lower end of the Confusion Range Project. One map near Provo and one east of Kanab were published. jffOMING Control surveys were completed during the past six months on fourteen 7~-minute quadrangles in the Savery Project. Final composites are now available on the eight quadrangles of the South Pass project falling within the PSFC Region. These are: Pilot, Butte 15'; South Pass 2 SW. 3 NW; Francie 1 N~. 1 SE, 1 SW, 4 NW and the remaining 3/4 of Francis 4. Authorized - 0 Controlled - 14 Compiled - 0 Published - 0 SPECIAL N<YrE: The Sacramento. California Office of the Topographic Division has been reallocated in a new building at Menlo Park. The new address is U. S. Geological Survey. Topographic Division. 345 Middlefield Road. Menlo Park. California Water-Resource Investi~ationB Streams and runoff .- Except in Utah and locally in Arizona, runoff during the report period generally was substantially less than average. less than average. In Utah, owing to heavy precipitation in September. runoff was greater than average beginning with October 1959. In Arizona, new minimum and new maximum flows occurred---specifically. (1) on August 17-1$, flow of the Virgin River near Littlefield was the lowest yet observed in August; (2) Owing to the general storm of October 29 - November 2, record high flows for October or November. or both, occurred in the Verde, Salt, and Little Colorado Rivers. As of December 1959. reservoir storage was near average where there was substantial carryover. stol"age was seriously deficient in Southern California; in Nevada except in Lake Tahoe; and in San Carlos Reservoir. Arizona, whose content was about half of average. Changes in the stream-gaging network were as follows: (1) In Arizona, new stations were established on Bear Canyon and Tanque Verde Wash near Tucson. and on Garden Canyon near FOl"t H~chuca. (2) In California, 16 stations were discontinued and 27 new stations were established; of the new stations, 10 are to measure the effects of various forest management practices in the Onion Creek and Teakettle Creek basins in the Sierra Nevada. (3) In Colorado, two stEltions were discontinued:. Fall Creek nesr Fall Creek and Colol"ado River below Shadow Mountain Reservoir. -6-