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explorations and labors to the world at large, it is difficult to estimate. Measuring our future success by the past, with its disappointments and difficulties, I can see no discouraging features.
  The greatest obstacles have been already surmounted, and with the experience and knowledge gained, the result must be satisfactory
I am, most respectfully
Yours obt'ly.
(signed.) Chas. S. Bulkley
Engineer in Chief