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the field. Gabb has just returned from the southern part of the state where he has ben unraveling Sillimans hallucinations about oil. It turns out that there is a very little good oil there, and only a very little, about 500 barrels have been taken out by ditching and tunneling not by boring. The oil district will yield about 15 bbls a day of crude oil and pay well on a [[underlined]] small [/underlined]] investment.

Scammon is very much disgusted with the service. Bulkley wants to be the great "I am" of the Expedition and leave no pickings ^in the way of credit^ for his lower officers. I represented to S. the value of explorations around the mouth of the Youkon, and the credit to be gained there by and he now seems to feel as if that was the only thing which bound him to the enterprise. He is very anxious to keep on this coast after returning and continue his biographical work on the whales. By constant but easy pressure he has finally come to the conclusion that the assistance of Dr. Ayres is not positively necessary to the success of his work, more than I am afraid to say. No signs of