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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George

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Creator: Syphus, Levi

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1917-05-20

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This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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man000316
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man000316. Sadie and Hampton George Papers, 1874-1944. MS-00434. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d15d8ns36

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,, . stThomas,Nevada,Mrs oadie B.george Sept. 11 th.' 1919J Los Angeles,Lai. Dear Madam: In my last letter I expleined to you about tbe $2*50,and the steaps would take to get a change if possible.And also called vour attention to the face that x would soon be forwarding the oarers to you for signature.! have to leave tomorrow for some days and not haveing heard from you as to where I shall send the papers I anTto-dav preparing them to go to you,by registered mail,at Los Angeles,assuming that if you are not thene ,that you will have made arrangements to have your registered^promptley forwarded to you. 'a already have part of the signatures of the owners here and in ^anaca but some of them are away i^om here.and may not be back for a week or herewith I enclose you the deed of^the owners of the Happy Jack^ and Success uroupe of clains ,of whome you are one, SI ihe deed of the Prosperity groupe,of whome you are one, c** ihe Deed of the Magnesite claim owners,of whome you are one and the deed of the Magnesium claim,of whome you are one.Pi ease attatch vour I Sadie B.George to each of these four deeds,and go before a notary public annodt oaricakln owcleerdtgief icyaotuer stoi gneaatcuhr ed eetdo. each, havei^ the noitf^ r^| “'’ tta' t.-’h '* ’ ^® ivith the above deeds I also enclose the &&&& escrow instructions that which will accompany the said deeds,and abstracts of title,when prepared «x>the banfcand must be signed, by all of the claim nwn«rs^lcas« attatch | IL ay ounort asriyg.n ature to som/e,which,however,does not require acknowledge!™?1" before You will nnte/hat I have left off the name of the hank at the head! of the letter of instructions,anrYthat I have also left a blank space on JC the last page above the signatures,and have pinned a paragraph,with referenA to the banks pay to this blank space. I am this day takeing up with Stewart and Peck the matter of getting permission to place the eserwo in some other bank,or failing in that,of trying to sret them to have the bank come down on its first payment and to have It agree to take the greater -art of its escrow charge out of the second payment, ,if made.And it is my .intention when the matter is settled, to then write in thp namp sSp +.i, _ v „ ±. , , - s $4 | iSSi] to alx °f the parties for their signature and | and- if we t^o not so { O^ ^ ) 3 option. "JLIZ h"™* oU^ ^ t h e n i in we will be liable 1 settled,to get the paner et in bank bv OcTober 1st. Ger cur agreement of I have a letter and wire from Stewart,to day,the letter inclosing a telegram from New York,asking that 10u lbs of magensite be rushed to New/lork by express,without delay,and also stalling,that Is Stewarts lett.e* that everything was progressing in fine shape,and seemed bevond question I c*xid also asking to have the papers called for under the option agreement ’ tie,the deeds,abstracts etc*| placed in the bank as earley as possi ble, in order to he able to show the pepprties were free from encumberance and everything straight,for,it seemed the- second payment would be in sometime before the 1st of October,if everything was found all right ifith the titles etc.Therefore please get the papers to me as earlie as possible. Am haveing the abstracts prepared have everything closed very soon after I get in Las Vegas,and hone to the papers hack from you. Excuse haste,as | am hurriying to get matters cleared up to get awav for five or six days,and am trusting to your keen intuitions to guess what, 1 mean if 1 fail to clearley state same. Would, like to get excited over matters,hut there is a fine chance tui failure, which we hope wil«. pass us by this time and nermit matters to materalize. the -ailroad is still un,mended to StThcmas,but think will soon have them prodded into action. Very truly yours