Transcribe Jackson, P. V. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-04-11)

[another hand - Apr 11, 1876 P.V. Jackson Collecting and Settlement o Midas Mine] Sterling Mountian, April 11th 1876. Dear Professor

  S. V. Wheeler who wrote you from

Bozeman & whose letter you forwarded to me, was the hunter who secured the best portion of the lot of specimens, which I shipped you last season. He is a young man of reliability, & took a great deal of pride in the careful preparation, of specimens, as you noticed of those sent. When he delivered the last lot. of antelope skeletons & elk skins & skeletons, he wished, a large order, that he might employ an assisstant. </s that > and that during the winter in the Indian country. I told him that I could not give him an order, for anything, but if he chose to hunt, that you would probably take what he could get in the line of Sheep, Elk, Bear [Gluttons], Panther & c. & if I received orders for any special things, I would send them to him.

  When you wrote me of wanting antelope & elk skeletons

I sent him word. but the U. S. Marshall had ordered him to stop hunting. as we have a law forbidding the killing of Deer, Elk, antelope & c. from February till [ybg]