SUPPLEMENT 



CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORT RELATING TO THE CONDITION 

 OF CASA GRANDE IN 1895, WITH RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERN- 

 ING ITS FURTHER PROTECTION 



I. Letter of Reverend Isaac T. Wliittemore, custodian of Casa Grande, to 

 the Secrefarif of the Interior, recommending an appropriation for further 

 protectiny the ruin 



Flokence, Arizona, 



Juhi 25, 1895. 

 Houorable Hoke Smith, 



Secretary 0/ the Interior. 

 Dear Sir: It is with great besitaucy that 1 write to add to the 

 burdens of one so busy aud burdeued 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 (Jongress an api)eal for an 

 appropriation of $7,000 or $8,00[0] to roof the Casa Grande ruin, to 

 Icuce 40 acres, and make excavations of all the mounds in the vicinity 

 for the jnirpose of learning the history of tlie wonderful jjeople who 

 once lived here and erected the buildings aud built canals ? 



"S'ery sincerely, yours, 



Isaac T. AVhittemoke, 



Cnstodian Casa Grande. 



II. Indorsement of the Mr W hittemore's bi/ the Aetinij Secretarti of the 



Interior 



Department of the Interior, 



August 7, 1805. 

 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, 

 BuEEAi" OF American Ethnology, 



Washington, Angust 38, 1895. 



Sir: Your request of August 7 for a report concerning a recommeu- 

 dation by Iteverend Isaac T. AVhittemore, under date of July 25, that 

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