| | broken specimen.

Specimen number 627 B.E. was not obtained from the ruin itself, but
was found in that vicinity by Mr Whittemore and presented by him.

EXHIBITS

I. CONTRACT FOR REPAIRING AND PRESERVING CASA GRANDE RUIN, ARIZONA

_This contract_, made and entered into this ninth day of May, eighteen
hundred and ninety-one, between Theodore Louis Stouffer and Frederick
Emerson White, both of Florence, Arizona, as principals, and Augustine
Gray Williams, of Florence, Arizona, Andrew James Doran, of Florence,
Arizona, as sureties, of the first part, and the United States of
America, by Cosmos Mindeleff, acting for the Secretary of the Interior,
of the second part:

_Witnesseth_, That the said parties of the first part do hereby contract
and agree with the United States of America, as follows: That for the
consideration hereinafter mentioned they will at their own expense and
risk perform and execute the work upon the Casa Grande ruin, described
and specified in the specification hereto annexed and forming a part
hereof, in the manner and with the conditions specified, items of said
work to be as follows:

Item No. 1. Clearing out the debris: To excavate and remove 350 cubic
yards of earth and debris, or less, as specified, amount of excavation
not to exceed 350 cubic yards.

Item No. 2. Underpinning walls: To underpin the walls as specified,
requiring 750 cubic feet of brick masonry, or less, amount of masonry
not to exceed 750 cubic feet.

Item No. 3. Filling in cavities: To fill in cavities and openings as
specified, 500 lineal feet of 2 by 4 inches squared lumber and 800 cubic
feet of masonry, or less, whole amount of filling not to exceed 825
cubic feet.

Item No. 4. To brace the walls as specified in the annexed plan and
specifications.

Items numbered five and six of the specifications hereto annexed,
together with the plans, specifications, and conditions pertaining
especially and only to them and not to the other items, are omitted.

The said parties of the first part further contract and agree to deliver
over the work, completed and finished, to such person as the Secretary
of the Interior may designate, within two months after receipt of notice
that this contract has been approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

_It is further stipulated and agreed_, That should the parties of the
first part fail to complete the work within the time specified, or
should they d