SUPPLEMENT


CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORT RELATING TO THE CONDITION OF CASA GRANDE
IN 1895, WITH RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING ITS FURTHER PROTECTION

I. _Letter of Reverend Isaac T. Whittemore, custodian of Casa Grande, to
the Secretary of the Interior, recommending an appropriation for further
protecting the ruin_

Florence, Arizona,
_July 25, 1895_.
Honorable Hoke Smith,
_Secretary of the Interior_.

Dear Sir: It is with great hesitancy that I write to add to the
burdens of one so busy and burdened as I presume you to be. But it
is not for myself but for others that I write, and will try to be
laconic.

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_.