gave an opportunity for you to show your energy in getting out the remains.  When they are out, as you know, there will be nothing left but a hole in the ground.  Wondeful monument!



Your first duty, however, is absolutely to get away with all the stuff we have dug out the last year before some infernal schemer comes along and raises difficulties.  I wioll go down to Wasingotn as soon as I can and if possible get an interview with President Wilson and the Secretary of the Interior and get things fixed up.