The letter of the Secretary of the Interior recommending the reservation of the Casa Grande tract, with its indorsement by the President, is as follows:
Department of the Interior,
Washington, June 20, 1893.
Sir: I have the honor to recommend that the SW. ¼ SW. ¼, SE. ¼ SW. ¼, SW. ¼ SE. ¼ section 9, NW. ¼, NW. ¼ NE. ¼, SW. ¼ NE. ¼, NW. ¼ SW. ¼, NE. ¼ SW. ¼, and NW. ¼ SE. ¼ section 16, all in township 5 south, range 8 east, Gila and Salt river meridian, Arizona, containing 480 acres more or less, and including the Casa Grande ruin, be reserved in accordance with the authority vested in you by the act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat., 961), for the protection of the ruin.
The Director of the Bureau of Ethnology requests that the reservation be made, and the Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office knows of no objection to such action.
Very respectfully,
John W. Noble,
Secretary.
The President.
[Indorsement by the President]