Box 11, Folder 5: Correspondence January-April 1873

1873, Feb. 26

would be deemed puerile, to me are substandard.

My MS is all complete & the great bulk of it is in the hands of the printer. I am [restricted?] by my publisher to 400 [pp?]. I have 72 illustrations & the only way that I have been able to accomplish this without probable loss to him is by an arrangement [illegible] [illegible] by which I pay 1/2 of the cost of the figures of [illegible] in the last [illegible] of the [illegible]- alist, & with [illegible] by which he agreed to appropriate $60 to the illustration of my skull paper & let me have electrolytes at cost. I had in the originals among others, your skull or Dr Hoy's 1/4 & besides several other mound buildings skulls, which I was compelled to discard, to [illegible]^ [illegible] the appropriation. I have corrected about 25 pp of proof & find that [2 1/4?] p of my MS = 1 page of print - [illegible] is more than I calculated [illegible] & I must go

[Left Page] into the condensing process or leave out several chapters, such as " [illegible] Unity of the Race"; Chronomatical measurements as applied to the Anatomy, of man" etc.

If I were in vigorous health & capable of prolonged exertion I would send to the printer for parts of the MS. & remodel it, so as to embrace the most [illegible] parts of [illegible] out the most I can [illegible] is [illegible] from day to day, I may correct the proof as it comes in I wish I could figure & describe your skulls. I regard them as confirmatory in an [illegible] degree of my theory, when I get to that part in my proof I can add a note & if the public can [illegible] a repetition of the dose I will figure them in a second [E.?] [illegible]. The facts are too val[Right Page] uable to [slumber?] & we must devise some means to have them brought out in full.

That [illegible] [les.?] [illegible] — I hesitated about mentioning it because it was an "isolated find" it rested on the testimony of an uncorroborated observer & there is a possibility that it may have dropped from near the surface [illegible] I have many isolated cases like this [illegible] I have failed to mention. You gave a bird like figure (6) which in general [illegible] is like one in Mr. Perkins collection except that his has large eyes. Of this I give a figure.

That gravel ridge which [illegible] the base of the Rocky Mts from Wyoming to Pikes Peak, from which Mr. H got his specimens, is full of Flint flakes, according to a [illegible] paper by [Berthould?] & wonderful as it may appear, are associated according to [Conrad?], with shells as not [illegible] them the Older

pliocene

I have thoroughly reviewed all the cases mentioned of of the ^supposed^ occurrence of human remains in deposits older than the "recent."

The copper rod is similar to that of Mr P. which I have figured. Those fluted axes are unique. Mr. P. showed me a drawing of a very fine one. The most I can now do is to make a note of the fact.

I see you spell "Bysicon." I always trusted to poor Stimpson in these matters & in the proof of my academy article, he spells "Busycon" — I have no [an?]= [illegible] in my library but Woodward's Man of Mollusca. (1851) where the old name is relevant. If I could get to the academy I could settle this matter. If you have the authority at hand, please refer to it.

With many thanks - Truly JWF.

[I. A. L. to J. Druecker]

Milwaukee Feb 28 - 1873

Dr Sir

In reply to your letter of 26th inst I have to say that I think the price asked for the quarry I examined for you in August last ($5000 for 20 acres) is a pretty round one considering the fact that only "rough stone" can be got out. Though it is often found that stone improves in quality as greater depth is attained, yet this is not always so - and hence it should not do be relied upon. this with certainty. From the slight examination I made I suppose that the rock below your quarry will be found the same as is found in the bed of the creek below

[pencil sketch] Port Washington Blue White Yellow J. Druecker's

and there if I remember did not indicate any very valuable building stone. Though the indications are that there may be in the lower layers ^of your quarry^ good "dimension stone" this is not sufficiently certain to justify the payment of a very large price for the quarry ^it.^

Port Washington Feb 26 73

Mr. I. A. Lapham Milwaukee

Dr Sir!

I am offered the stone quarry comprising about 20 acres which you inspected last year.

The price however which the owner asks is too large $5000 —

I have now a side track in and can ship by cars either to Milwaukee or Sheboygan — Thus far I have no dimension stone out yet. I have made a face with blasting of about 15 feet long and 8 feet wide through four layers what I suppose will make dimension stone.

The first layer is 18 inches the second one 9 inches the 3rd layer 15 inches and the 4th 24 inches thick.

The two upper layers have small yellow lines yet, which seem to have been once cracks but seem to hold at present, however that is something which should not be in dimension stone.