Albuquerque, New Mexico

                                                           "May 5, 1933

 
 
      Mr. William Collins. 
      904 Test Bldg., 
      Indianapolis, Indiana 
 
      Dear Mr. Collinst 
 
               Your message transmitted through Gilbert Gigetead caught 
      up with me today just after I had closed arrangements to make a game

      and watershed survey of projects to be executed by the Civilian 
      Conservation Corps in New Mexico and Arizona. I am obligated to go

      ahead with this job for at least the next two months.   Accordingly.

      any work in Indiana would have to come after the first of July. 
 
               It is h-rd for me to make an estimate of what such a job 
      in Indiana would cost without a conversation with you to find out 
      what you want; assuming that you want just about the same thing as

      Iowa did, only confined to gee. - The estimate would be roughtly as

      follows: 
                  My time, 6 moSo $600 per mo .- ----------     $3600 
                  My expenses- ...-    ..-.-.-.------------       500 
                  Financial aid to be extended to farmer 
                                demonstration projects, ...       500 
                  Publication of findings, - -                .---------

                                                          Total, $5100 
         I am not including in these costs the trainee or assistant whom
I 
would have working with me and leave behind with you for the e mcution of

the plan upon the completion of the survey.   Such a man would presumably

be a necessary member of your administrative forc$V in ary event, so it 
would hardly be fair to charge his cost to the game survey.   Partially 
trained men suitable for rapidly learning this job are available at salaries

of $2400 to $3600 or, with good luck in catnhtug the right man without a
job, 
for even less. 
 
        I am assuming that the work would consist first, in a siseup of 
present game conditions which would simply be built upon the previous game

survey made in 1929 although with tne assurance of active interest by the

State Department, the survey would be of quite a different nature. Following

the gathering of this preliminary information there would be installed a

series of demonstration areas, each consisting of a suitable group of farmers