The Repair of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1893-94, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 315-348Mindeleff, Cosmos
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The Repair of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1893-94, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 315-348
Mindeleff, Cosmos
Arizona -- Antiquities; Casa Grande National Monument (Ariz.); Hohokam architecture -- Conservation and restoration; Indians of North America -- Arizona
Three north-and-south sections to show estimated amount of excavation
necessary. [Plate CXIX of this report.]
Plan showing roof support. [Plate CXXII of this report.]
Two sections showing roof support. [Plate CXXIII and plate CXXIV of
this report.]
IV. OATH OF DISINTERESTEDNESS
I do solemnly swear that the copy of contract hereunto annexed is
an exact copy of contract made by me personally with Theodore Louis
Stouffer and Frederick Emerson White; that I made the same fairly,
without any benefit or advantage to myself, or allowing any such
benefit or advantage corruptly to the said Theodore Louis Stouffer
and Frederick Emerson White, or to any other person or persons; and
that the papers accompanying include all those relating to the said
contract, as required by the statute, in such case made and provided.
(Signed) Cosmos Mindeleff.
Sworn to and subscribed before me at Washington, D.C., this 18th day
of July, 1891.
[SEAL] (Signed) Jno. D. McChesney,
_Notary Public_.
V. BIDS
I
Bid for repairs on the Casa Grande ruins, in Pinal County,
Arizona, bidders to furnish all labor and materials according to
specifications:
Item No. 1. Cleaning out debris, 60 cents per cubic yard.
Item No. 2. Underpinning walls, $1 per cubic foot.
Item No. 3. Filling in openings, $1 per cubic foot.
Item No. 4. Bracing walls, $200.
Item No. 5. Wire fence, 3 cents per foot complete.
Item No. 6. Roof, $2,000.
(Signed) T. L. Stouffer.
F. E. White.
Florence, Arizona, _January 28, 1891_.
II
Bid for putting a roof on the Casa Grande ruins as per plans and
specifications furnished, $3,000.
(Signed) C. D. Henry.
III
Bid for fencing in the Casa Grande ruins: Furnishing the posts and
barbed wire, for 100 feet of fence, $7 per 100 feet.
(Signed) C. D. Henry.
IV
Bids for restoring the Casa Grande ruins:
First. Removing debris from interior of the ruins, 320 cubic yards,
more or less, $1 per yard; 140 cubic yards from exterior of the
ruins, at 60 cents per yard.
Second. Eight hundred cubic feet of brick masonry underpinning, more
or less, at $1.30 per cubic foot.
Third. One thousand cubic feet, more or less, of brick masonry to
fill in cavities, at $1.40 per cubic foot.
Fourth. Bracing walls, as per plans, $120.
Fifth. Five hundred lineal feet of 2 by 4 square timber at 8 cents
per foot, lumber measure.
(Signed) C. D. Henry.
V
Phoenix, Arizona, _February 11, 1891_.
Cosmos Mindeleff, Esq.,
_Tempe, Arizona_.
Dear Sir: I hereby submit for your consideration, in reference to
the plans and specifications for the preservation of the Casa Grande
ruins of Arizona, bids upon the following propositions, to wit:
First. "Cleaning out the debris." For the removal of 470 cubic yards
of material, more or less, at $2.65 per cubic yard.
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