(COPY) 
L. G. PETTIBOKB 
Real Estate 
Dawson, N. Dak. 
August 2, 1922. 
Mr. 2. W. Kelson, 
Washington, D. 0. 
Dear Sir: 
I have looked over all of the larger lakes during the 
last week and was unahle to locate any of the geese and think 
it advisable for you to delay sending your man here until the 
last of the month. By that time the geese will begin feeding 
on the fields and will be easily located, as it is now they 
are in the sloughs that have heavy growths of rushes that makes 
it most impossible to locate them. 
I will be advised by the farmers living near these lakes 
as soon as geese are seen in the open lakes and will aovise you 
on first information. 
I think I have arrangements that will make it certain 
that we will get some specimens of these geese this fall. One 
evening I was at a slough ten miles southeast of here and could 
hear geese calling but could not sight them owing to the heavy 
growth of rushes^ 
Yours truly. 
(Si.gn. 0 d) 0* Pettibone* 
