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to use his in the future Hecla Mill. Unfortunately, 

 Hodge, the agent of the rolls, appeared upon the scene 

 just as Agassiz was about to put this idea into operation, 

 and persuaded him that with a few slight improvements 

 everything would work satisfactorily. So the installation 

 of the rolls in the Calumet Mill proceeded. 



Shortly after his arrival, he found it necessary to dis- 

 charge Hulbert's brother John, who was in charge of 

 Hecla. Assuming the management himself, he kept 

 Davis as his assistant in charge of Calumet. Hulbert, who 

 was still a large stockholder, continued to give trouble. 



TO Q. A. SHAW 



April 19, 1867. 



My dear Quin: — 



E. J. Hulbert I find went to Boston fully determined, 

 as I hear from quotations of his, to show Mr. Shaw what 

 should be done ; he was not going to have anybody here 

 telling him what to do ; either he (E. J.) or Agassiz would 

 be master. That is the spirit and not the benefit of the 

 Company. If anybody wants my place and can do better, 

 let them have it; I am not anxious to stay here and be 

 in a perpetual stew about a state of things which I did 

 not inaugurate. One thing is perfectly clear : you cannot 

 run either Calumet or Hecla without equipment as has 

 been attempted, and if you attempt it and try any make- 

 shifts to get out copper except by regular mining, you 

 will swamp them both. The sum of the thing is, that 

 we cannot stop and put things into shape ; everything 

 is out of joint here and it will take a great deal of 

 money spent to apparently no purpose to get them on 

 the right track again. All the shovelling of snow done 

 here last winter could have opened the mine ; days were 



