ALL MESSAGES TAKEN BY THIS COMPANY ARE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS:

To guard against mistakes or delays, the sender of a message should order it REPEATED; that is, telegraphed back to the originating office for comparison. For this, one-half the regular rate is charged in addition. It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this Company, that said Company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for non-delivery of any UNREPEATED message, beyond the amount received for sending the same; nor for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for non-delivery of any REPEATED message, beyond fifty times the sum received for sending the same, unless specially insured, nor in any case for delays arising from unavoidable interruption in the working of its lines, or for errors in cipher or obscure messages. And this Company is hereby made the agent of the sender, without liability, to forward any message over the lines of any other Company when necessary to reach its destination.

Correctness in the transmission of a message to any point on the lines of this Company can be INSURED by contract in writing, stating agreed amount of risk, and payment of premium thereon, at the following rates, in addition to the usual charge for repeated messages, viz, one per cent. for any distance not exceeding 1,000 miles, and two per cent. for any greater distance. No employee of the Company is authorized to vary the foregoing.

No responsibility regarding messages attaches to this Company until the same are presented and accepted at one of its transmitting offices; and if a message is sent to such office by one of the Company's messengers, he acts for that purpose as the agent of the sender.

Messages will be delivered within the established free delivery limits of the terminal office. For delivery at a greater distance, a special charge will be made to cover the cost of such delivery.

The Company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission.

THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager.

CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY CO.

LAW DEPARTMENT.

LLOYD W. BOWERS,
General Counsel.
EUGENE E. OSBORN, I
ARTHUR W. PULVER, /
General Attorneys.

CHICAGO, March 4, 1899.

Prof. O. C. Marsh,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

My dear Professor:--

I have your kind letter of the 2nd and wish
to thank you for your appreciative expressions about the very little
thing that I was glad to be able to accomplish in the way of getting
low rates on your scientific material from the Black Hills.

I know of nothing that I should more enjoy in New Haven than
a call upon yourself and a visit with you to the museum. I am one
of those unfortunates who received the orthodox education of my
time, with very little science in it, and who have since developed
an uninformed fondness for scientific study. Your pamphlets about
the Black Hills will interest me greatly, I am sure.

Of late I have been away a great deal and have not been
able to push the matter of your claim for a return of rates on
certain old shipments. This is not out of my mind, however, and
I shall follow it up now without delay. As a matter of strict
classification, I am informed that you would not be entitled to the
low rates now given; but I may be able to influence the rates of
the past on these shipments to you, as well as the rates of the
future.