(Brontosaurus autorem)



Everything so far as our work in the quarry is concerned is all right now at Washington.  It has been explained to me that all of these lands in that immediate vicinity have been withdrawn from occupation because they are supposed to contain coal and phosphate deposits, and that the only way to protect us in our rights was to withdraw the portion covered by our mineral claim and set it apart as a national monument under the law of 1906.



I hope before long to be able to take up the question of transporting from the field the fossils already boxed and to secure railway facilities for this purpose.  Unfortunately, however, I am just at present rather miserable, owing to a heavy cold.  Everybody here has grip, and while I am firing away, it is to a certain extent up-hill work.



I am.



Yours sincerely,

Director Carnegie Museum