Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Board of Directors: Of the McKean and Elk Land and Improvement Company to the Stockholders This exploration consisted chiefly in a geological survey, which implies a variety of operations in the field; the account of it in detail must be preceded by some closet work which has not yet been completed. The following, therefore, besides a brief description of the country, contains only a general summary of the work that has been done, and the general results which have been established by it in respect to the deposits of valuable minerals in the region examined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.