175

[7–[155?].]

Tenth Census
of the
United States.

Tree Covering; Forest Wealth;
the Lumbering Industry.

Chas. S. Sargent,
Expert and Special Agt.

Department of the Interior,
Census Office,
Brookline, Mass., Oct. 18., 1881.

Professor C. E. Bessey,
Ames, Iowa.

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged
for the information contained in your
letters of the 10th and 14th [?] and will
write at once to [?] Wright and
Whiting in regard to the Willow.
You will add to the obligation wider
which you have already placed
me by sending me any further
facts you may obtain in regard
to this plant.

Yours very truly
C. S. Sargent.
Special Agent [?] Census.