Very respectfully,
      John W. Noble,
          Secretary.

  The President.
      [Indorsement by the President]
          Executive Mansion, June 23, 1892.

  Let the lands described within be reserved for the protection of the
  Casa Grande ruin as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior.

Benj.  Harrison.

The limits of this reservation are laid down on the plat of the survey of said township in the General Land Office, and the reservation is now under the control of the Secretary of the Interior.

SPECIMENS FOUND IN THE EXCAVATIONS

In the course of the excavations a number of specimens of archeologic interest were unearthed.  These were all preserved and on the conclusion of the work were forwarded to the National Museum in Washington, in compliance with the terms of the contract.  Following is a list showing the collection number and also the Museum number.

National Museum number
|
|Bureau of Ethnology number
|     |
|     | Article             | Number of specimens
|     |                     |
|     |                     |      | Remarks
--------+-----+---------------------+------+----------------

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|     |                     |      |
155088 | 595 | Fragments of large  | Lot. | Plain red on both sides.
|     | earthenware vessel. |      |
155089 | 596 | Large bowl.         |   1  | Red outside; black, polished
|     |                     |      |   inside; restored.
155090 | 597 | Large vase.         |   1  | Decorated outside; restored.
155091 | 598 | Pottery fragments.  |  14  | Decorated.
155092 | 599 | Pottery vase (toy). |   1  | Small, dark brown.
155093 | 600 | Pottery bowl (toy). |   1  | Small, black.
155094 | 601 | Pottery disk or     |   4  |
|     |  spindle.           |      |
155095 | 602 | Pottery toy         |   1  | Dark brown.
|     |  (mountain goat).   |      |
| 603 | Adobe.              |   2  | Lumps; 1 showing impression
|     |                     |      |   of cloth, the other of a
|     |                     |      |   human foot.
| 604 | Small shells.       | Lot. |
| 605 |  -- do --           | Lot. |
| 606 | Small shells(lonus?)| Lot. |
| 607 | Small shells (cut   | Lot. | For use as pendants.
|     |  and perforated).   |      |
| 608 | Small shells, beads,| Lot. | 1 string and 2 fragments.
|     |   and pendants.     |      |
| 609 | Bone awls.          |   3  |
| 610 | Bone fragments.     |   6  | Partly charred.
| 611 | Chalk, obsidian     | Lot. |
|     |  chips, and brown   |      |
|     |  adobe.             |      |
| 612 | Charred wood, 2     |   4  |
|     |  nuts, and a        |      |
|     |  corncob.           |      |
| 613 | Charred textiles,   |   2  |
|     |  cloth.             |      |
| 614 | Wooden joist        |   3  | 3, 6, and 9 inches long;
|     |  fragments.         |      |   4 inches diameter.