With my present allowance I can employ only three men and that is all I need at this stage. This would leave one man out or else all work on short time. The other men are excellent quarry workers and I do not think there is another man in the Uinta Basin -- unless it were his older brother -- who would be as good a man to employ to make a collection as my fourth man Coin Thorne. Leo Thorne, his oldest brother formerly had a photographic and taxidermic shop in Vernal and it was of him that you purchased some things when you were here once before. Coin worked with his older brother Jerrald in the taxidermist shop and he better than anyone else knows the fauna of the country,