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S. P. Esq.
to Gov Washburn
Jan 11, 1873

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Office of the Lake Superior Iron Co.
Marquette, Lake Superior, Mich.
Jan 16th 1873

Hon Wm J. Heiner
Chm Senate Committee Geological Survey
Madison, Wis.

Dear Sir,
It occurs to me
to make the suggestion to your Committee that
if a Geological Survey of your State should
soon be made, the work on the Northern
portion of it including the Iron Region
adjacent to that of Michigan, would have
a greater unity & value in all probability
if it were done under the same direction &
by the same parties with our Michigan survey
which is now finished & will soon be published

The really responsible Director of the
Geological Survey of the Michigan Iron Region
is Major T. B. Brooks of this city. I have
carefully noted his work during the three
years in which it has been on foot & can
bear testimony to its thoroughness & value.

I venture to make the suggestion that as
Director of [illegible] or of the whole of your
work, you would find Major Brooks a
thoroughly competent & able man who would
come through what he undertook in the interests of
of science & with a determination to