
          Patent office
 August 18/59


 My Dear Doctor,


 In reply to your query about the
 Tin Mine I can only say that I never
 heard of any reward offered by Government
 & am confident no such thing was ever 
 done, indeed I hardly see how Congress
 would have the right to do such a thing - at
 all events I have enquired among my acquaintances
 not one of whom ever heard of it.
 I am sure it is a myth. With regard to the
 locality of Tin, I saw a notice in a California
 paper some time back that a tin ore was found
 on the East side of the pass of the Sierra Nevada
 on the Southern route (By Warners ranche)
 somewhere near Vallecito -- I thought a probable
 place was the Estrella Mts on the Gila
        