mostly excavating and taking out bones, and though we could use all the men all the time to advantage we can get along with less. It is likely that I shall have work for a part of the time again in the spring.

	To save overreaching the appropriation again I told the men, to treat them all alike, I would have to lay them off during the latter part of January. One man who intends to take his wife (who is not well) to the hot springs as soon as spring opens, proposed that they work now, drawing what proportion of the money is available for each and then taking the lay off later when it would do them all good. I talked with two of the others and told them that I thought it could be arranged that way, that I would tell Dr. Holland and if there were no objection we would do this. I can pay them for a certain numbers of days each month, taking a receipt stating no