E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . urs from this causewas 5,000,000, representing a loss of revenue of about?350,000. 688 Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. 108, No. 17 Plans for the Fourteenth Census of Minesand Quarries Census Bureau, Geological Survey, and Bureau of Mines to Co-operate—State Surveys Also to Assist in Collating Statistics FOR some months negotiations have been inprogiess between the Bureau of the Census, theU. S. Geological Survey, and the U. S. Bureau ofMines, looking towai d a fuller utilization of the tech-nical experience and facilities of the two mineralbureaus of
E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . urs from this causewas 5,000,000, representing a loss of revenue of about?350,000. 688 Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. 108, No. 17 Plans for the Fourteenth Census of Minesand Quarries Census Bureau, Geological Survey, and Bureau of Mines to Co-operate—State Surveys Also to Assist in Collating Statistics FOR some months negotiations have been inprogiess between the Bureau of the Census, theU. S. Geological Survey, and the U. S. Bureau ofMines, looking towai d a fuller utilization of the tech-nical experience and facilities of the two mineralbureaus of the Government in the coming Four-teentli Census than in previous censuses. An agree-ment covering this co-operation has finally beenperfected. The co-operative arrangements arebased upon the recognition of the necessity foreliminating duplicate work, the need of uniformityin the compilation of statistics, and the desirabilityof focusing upon this difficult task all the technicalexperience already available in the Harris and Ewing Under the co-operative arrangements as finallypeifected a considerable number of the technicalspecialists and statistical clerks of the Division ofMineral Resources of the Geological Survey, togetherwith some trained specialists and clerks in theBureau of Mines, will be assigned to duty with theDivision of Mines and Quarries of the Census,although probably retained upon the payroll of thefirst-mentioned bureaus. This staff will be fusedwith the existing stafl of the Division of Mines andQuarries of the Census, the entire organization, aug-mented by the addition of new members, to consti-tute the fusion statistical organization. F. J. Katz, who for a number of years has beenone of the specialists of the Division of MineralResources of the Geological Survey, and who re- cently has been associated with the administrativework of that division, has been appointed chief ofthe Division of Mines and Quarries of the Census,effective Oct.
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