402 ALEXANDER AGASSIZ 



TO HIS SON RODOLPHE 



Since I wrote you I have had two additional inter- 

 views with MacNaughton [the general manager]. I like 

 him, and I now feel as if my orders would be carried 

 out promptly and not appear year after year on my list 



of things to be attended to. He is only 37 and gets 



a year to begin on. This is three times what I was get- 

 ting when I left Calumet at 33, after having opened and 

 developed it. Such is the difference between men and 

 times now ; I little dreamed I should ever offer my suc- 

 cessor here such a salary. 



To-day is a fair sample of the work I do, though it is 



perhaps a little mixed — talked with W an hour — 



went to smelting works — saw head clerk there who 

 wants to go to Congress — saw the superintendent of 

 the stamp mills — had a confab with the Lake Linden 

 School Board — another with the village authorities of 

 the Lake — inspected the new timber mill — made a 

 visit to the Assay Office — came up to mine to have an 

 interview with the Catholic Bishop of Marquette — got 

 up contract for Electric Street Railroad — had a long 

 session with MacNaughton — another with Electric peo- 

 ple — one with aid fund superintendent, and then went 

 to take a long walk before dinner to visit adjoining 

 mines. 



One interesting result of Agassiz's periodic sojourns 

 at Calumet was a series of experiments on underground 

 temperatures, undertaken with the assistance of the 

 engineer of the mine, Mr. P. C. F. West. Ever since 

 mining had meant more than a mere scratching of 

 the surface of the earth, men must have realized that 



