Reconnoissance Soil Survey of the Western Part of the Puget Sound Basin, Washington

Magnum, A.W. and Party

Publication Date: 1912

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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. 8vo, 116 pp. illustrated with black and white photographs plus 4 large folding color-printed maps held in a sleeve bound within the covers. Half pebbled morocco, marbled paper boards, neatly rebacked. Light wear to binding, contents fine. § First edition. The results of a detailed soil survey of the western part of the Puget Sound basin, led by A.W. Magnum in 1910. The area surveyed includes all of San Juan Island, Kitsap, and Thurston, and parts of Chehalis, Jefferson, Clallam, Mason, and Pierce Counties. The authors include a detailed soil map of the region on two sheets and also a land classification map on two sheets, i.e. "a map showing the relation of the soils to the present character of occupation; this is, to conditions of forestation and agricultural development. It is believed that this land-classification map will prove of special value to those seeking locations in this comparatively undeveloped but rapidly developing section of the country" (opening Letter of Transmittal).

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• Title: Reconnoissance Soil Survey of the Western Part of the Puget Sound Basin, Washington
• Publication Date: 1912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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