data in this office to indicate whether there is especially urgent
necessity for undertaking preservative work at this time; but much
confidence is placed in the judgment of the custodian, Reverend
Isaac T. Whittemore, who is known to several collaborators in the
Bureau.

The subject of the preservation of Casa Grande, in many respects the
most noteworthy ruin in the United States, is deemed important; and
if the Secretary of the Interior desires more specific information
concerning the present condition of the ruin, as a basis for further
action or judgment, it will be a pleasure to have an officer of this
Bureau make a special examination of, and report on, the ruin during
the autumn.

I have the honor to be, yours, with great respect,

W J McGee, _Acting Director_.
The Secretary of the Interior.


IV. _Letter of the Acting Secretary of the Interior to the Director of
the Bureau of American Ethnology, approving the suggestion that Casa
Grande be visited with a view of determining the desirability of its
further protection_

Department of the Interior,
_Washington, September 12, 1895_.
The Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology,
_Smithsonian Institution_.