
          papers with drawings which if you will take
 charge of I should feel gratified. They will 
 be completed in a week. They are on the Geology
 of the route travelled over by us. I have
 ceased to be a member of the Assoc'n. [Association] for some years
 I do not desire to be renewed. Perhaps therefore
 the papers are not presentable. How is that?
 If you do not go I would send them to Hall
 but as I know him but slightly I do not care
 to trouble him.


 I am in the same office with Dr Gale
 whom to know is to like better but both he
 & Schaffer stand on [tuklish?] ground here if the
 Secretary of the Interior could only do what he wants to, that
 is introduce political parties [?] into this office 
 but for their sakes I hope he will not succeed.
 The Secy [Secretary] & Commiss'r. [Commissioner] Mason are at loggerheads about
 who has the right to appoint & the Attorney Gen'l. [General]
 has to decide the question. The 1st of next month
 will quiet the hopes & fears of many holders
 on.


 I am afraid that I have bored 
 you with the personal [?] too long
        