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,
_Acting Secretary_.


III. _Letter of the Acting Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology
to the Secretary of the Interior suggesting an examination of Casa
Grande with a view of its further protection_

Smithsonian Institution,
Bureau of American Ethnology,
_Washington, August 28, 1895_.

Sir: Your request of August 7 for a report concerning a
recommendation by Reverend Isaac T. Whittemore, under date of July
25, that provision be made for further protecting Casa Grande ruin,
near Florence, Arizona, by the erection of a suitable roof, has been
under consideration.