August 24, 1866. Ezra Cornell to T.G. Alvord from Eau Claire, Wis.: "I have just returned from a trip of three days in the pineries of the Chippawa sleeping two nights in such rude camp as we could construct of pine bows by the application of half an hours labor. Yesterday morning we were aroused from our slumber by the howling of a pack of wolves of a dozen or more counting by the noise and varying voices. They remained with us an hour and then mooved slowly on untill their howl was lost in the distance. "?I have not time to write to Senator White. Please show this to him, and say that this land operation is going to be a success. It requires skill, hard work and capital, but all those it shall have, and the present and future youth of our State shall enjoy the blessings that shall flow from a richly endowed Institution of learning." Topics: steam agricultural machinery; Western Union Telegraph Company; sheep; Cornell University; Kansas lands; telegraph business correspondence; Wisconsin lands Personal names: Horner, J.; Palmer, O.H.; Cornell, D.B.; Chace, E.C.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Chace, Theophilus; Putnam, H.C. Geography: