Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George

TOtdrto IMIfcg irrignttau domgHng I N C O R P O R A T E D StThoraas,Ngyada,No t Mrs Sadie B.George .29th,1918 Aroya Granda,Cal. Bear Madam:- Yours of 23rd,as added to that of Mr £s#ton,reeelred a few days ago,but this is the first opportunity of replying. After severing the lease with Mr Stewart,and in the course ofa week or ten days I recived a letter from him,to the effect,that altho a poor man he was going to fight any one who undertook to use "his process",that he had it patented and would fight it to a finish,evidently he thought some one was trying to get behind him.rie alo said he was expecting results soon from efforts made to use the cement with the shipping board,etc,that agents of the gfevernemet were there testing etc,and that the matter w«,uld sure fee a go and asuceess, ^hereupon i wrote him that I had the coneat of the majority of the owners to waite another month and see what he could do,andfor him to write b c ,1 received no reply,and about the ISthywrote hi»i asking him to see what price he could get us for the^g^^^Ea^,and if it was as well as other people woul do for us,we would profeafeley sell etc.To date I have had no word from him. But I did see,in the Los Angeles,Examiner of the 14th,inst, an article,that brie# were feeing made that were lighter than wood that would float like cork,that these brick when ground up and cemented together would make ships as strong as steel and lighter than wood etc.Also that Larson of the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company,was the inventor of the brick,that he had been aorking nn it for morethan two years last past etc.But there was no word as to Magnesite cement or where the material came from,You must use your own judgement in figureing the thimg out.But I will ask,is -T^rhe shipping agents and others,working with A shton,t,o control the thing and get the poor old man out. Or has stf&oart lost control of the process,do they think they ean steal it from whdlT.We will await developments with somefinterest. And please?blTeve,I shal Irfnot mix things if 1 ©an help it. tfrote Ashton briefley,and ask for a more detailed acount of his proposition,That we wouldnot be adverse to such a proposition providing we got what we wanted out of it etc,That we wwee aga* in touch with pur European people who dropped matters on account of the outbreak of the war in 1914.and expected to do business *ith them,etc,That the process they had for raakeirg; a certain commodly was very fine,and could utelize our ©rude material for it etc.That if said process could be secured and amalgamated with the proposed Co'/*;© would have th world by the tail with a down hill pull etc" The following day wrote Stewart and informed him I would have to have report rora him,that we could not afford to miss another oppertunity for business etc.That it seemd from the papers he had faxled to land any thing on the shipping business and that we Bar! things were at etc. S0 sit tight and we will see that F fBe Salt is still hung up,,o doubt Mr Tbland has written you about it, itespeetfully yours v .jf/ ,.