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E.:I. DU PONT DC NEMOURS COMPANY 
             INtOR RORATED 
      SMOKELESS POWDER DEPARTMENT              December 19, 1929. 
        WILMINGTON. DELAWARE 
 
 
 
      Mr. Aldo Leopold, 
      421 Chemistry Bldg., 
      University of Wisconsin, 
      Madison, Wis. 
      My dear Leopold: 
                       Just returned from a very interesting 
      and instructive shootin7 trip in the Mississipni Valley 
      with Nash Buckingham and in which Mr. duPont and Mr. Dodge 
      accompanied us, to find your letter of December 10th asking 
      for the acreage of the Saline Game Preserve. 
 
                       You will find this notation on the bottom 
   II of the sheet covering years 1924, 1925 and 1926, a total 
      acreage of about 20,000; approximately 1,100 devoted to the 
      Club and 18,600 under shooting lease. 
 
                          Most sincerely yours, 
 
 
L.W.T.WALLER,JR.--ASSISTANT DIRECTOR 
 
 
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