Can you embody in your next report to Congress an appeal for an appropriation of $7,000 or $8,00[0] to roof the Casa Grande ruin, to fence 40 acres, and make excavations of all the mounds in the vicinity for the purpose of learning the history of the wonderful people who once lived here and erected the buildings and built canals?
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Very sincerely, yours,
Isaac T. Whittemore,
Custodian Casa Grande.
II. Indorsement of the Mr Whittemore's by the Acting Secretary of the Interior
Department of the Interior,
August 7, 1895.
Respectfully referred to the Director of Bureau of Ethnology for consideration of so much of within letter as relates to the Casa Grande ruin, and such recommendation as the facts may warrant, and report.
Wm. H. Sims,