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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George

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Creator: Syphus, Levi

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1920-08

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

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man000322. 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/d1862bp84

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H ARRY GENTRY D E A L E R IN General Merchandise St. Thomas, Nevada,__ Aug » 20 th-,- .19.£L Mrs Sadie B^George Los Angeles,Cal. Dear Madam:-Yours of few days ago received and'noted,rather sorrey your man got away,hut why worrey,he may return,possihley as you say he is one of the Chicago Bunch,if so they ought to he showing up pritty doon.If you get in touch with him better tell him there, is a very substantial sum of money deposited subject to our order upon delivery of signed agreement for sale of the magnesite,and that_ we it. ? two weeks to thik it over in, a he deal would be allright if tb but of course you will not tell him to whether or not we will take payments were not so long deferred" that. , stewarl leaves :oi lome to day, his propbsi ion is after ten months $100 per month until! September .1922 when $6250 and $6,250 ffiffyi. each quarter thereafter untill $2001000 , §||000 II ey will pay $25,0,00 wi.l.l( |g || have been paid within that year,$50,000 each year for two years thereafter and the following year the sum $f $68,000 and a fraction.Have posession <vf* nr’nnprt.v and pay $1 per ton for each ton of ore moved the same of the propertj purchase price. to apply on the Stewart will no doubt circulate the report the property,Make it plain to your parties that that they have purchased such is not the case. Have a letter from F.R.McIIamee asking for terms,and involving, a patenting proposition,shall not quote him price,untill I out just what they mean.Have two or three other parties on the trail as your man seemed to be,Quite a lot of just finde about as hot smoal:,poss somethin up come from it after bit.But have your man move _,for it is possible Stwearts proposition may be accepted if better does not show up.Have to hurry to get this in the mail ibley if he shows something Write at magnesite and one as salt. to what you know or may have heard concerning vV^V-'l Truly yours Sirs' ^adie B.George Stlhomas,Nevada,22nd,1920 Los Angels,^al Bear Madam;- Herewith please finde. enclosed check your favor,drawn on' the Bank of•Pioche Inc.in the sum of $617.02,your wart of the $5,00-.00 payed hy Stewart on the Hagnesite deal,after your portion of the .expence, as per the statement enclosed herewith,hds been deducted therefrom and which expence amounts to. $7.90,hut which does not include any part of the $20 attorney fee mentioned at .bottom of statement. The reason of -the check cornering to me and in my name,.as per the statement Which you signed is as follows: In closeing the deal with Stewart,he wanted to avoid going to Pioche to deposit the money and receive his copy of the agreement,and did not want to pay'the money untill he could place the agreement imecLiatley of record,as suggested in the letter I sent you with information to be delivered to him.So I informed him that we could make out a new set of escrow instructions and I could deliver the agreement to him there and he could-pay me the money,so it was donen thusley" and had I made off with your money,you would have been left in the lurch. I suppose from your letters,that you thought | was some foolish business dealer.fell that is wllright.But f, will now ’tell you what I was after,and the same is.That I did not^H^iould be bound by anything 1 in the agreement about delivery of title,by which they could possibley" hold us for any non performance of contract,if anything should prove wrong, in the event of patenting proceedings,which it sight be necessary to take before the deal is over.And something to which the certain bunch in your city might try to snake us trouble over by protesting the patent.Sher.efore . without any agreement for later delivery of title,I proposed to make them go through the record and ascertain the status of the title for themselves, and to accept the certificates of title and the deeds,as "laced in escrow, as all they would ever get,that-is get when they had ’completed the deal by aakeiiig all of the. payments,and. by Stewart signing tie escrow instructions Stewart has approved them,so,that is thsyUSWTfreek was right in saying title had to1 be brought down to date,and it is/oiit it is brought down in.a^manner 'that we"are free from further responsibility. So- if, they had had any way of makeing the deal stand as it would have- sttod after -you changed the date,and no other arrangement made could have'bean-bad,but as it is it is allright*I would respectfulley suggest,howeveij,that you do not permit any_one^not on your side of the deal (to have you change a rarer hereafter# I rather thought they might do so. But since all of the papers - had to come back to me before they -received their cdpy,it was all O.K, dou see in their eagerness to get the deal, the j . signed the first escrow instructions' sent down with the-agreements without noticing the title was not provided for after Sept • 1919, and - if w<| had desired to try a crooked deal 'on them we could have done so.That ia they would have had to sue for title after payment was made,if we forced t-len to it.The title they -have is“good as it could lie, & , but if patent is . protected, we are free from obligation as- far as ? tit: e_ is. concerned- and they cannot stop paymets because of aTiything. that may cone up, or sue tisffor - sane I agree with your statement that we but when'/jfiliqhsayed it was all he woul< ought to hav< had a i do,and vdienlall of loose the deil if w< out.I did hold off it to.In sun ort of better deal, Ifh'e outfit, | did not take |ii long as i my statement including yourself,was afraid,we would it,it was not any good for me to stand could,under the’ circumstances and have that you,with' the others desired it to go,I herewith enclose ,, letter of the 13th. Iia.Ha.Ba.Dont get angrey if I laugh at voil a little, fou advise my takeing plenty of tine, Doij$.;. you thin!Stewart” thinks 0 did. I never at any time broak a promise with 8thwart,for when he first' came|on and made his proposition I told him I ^did riot like it and that it did not interest me.and dident talk to him about \the, deal any more whil< ne was mere, excepting that after Sam told him that he coulci bring them around, x told Si it would prepare the agreements 1 majority favored it and and But of course I,like all of 'the rest did want- it to go ;if .'Ere could not get something better. Here ‘is a; probability that' it may work out all right, anil through earley. shipments, we may sooii'cqae .into- earley laoney "on 'the royalty, po*ss£ble*y as much as j)l0,O©Q hdfo"Q the first.-year . - of'-the deal is over and.'-more each year thereafter.*we will call ,it ..go.od^ ?fdrtthe present* : ; f g S - ?;: • ?'The hand^Of flee •'•.received ydtir letter 1 a^d money; lall right * and f ni * - mb ft lie reeeitrfor-'it,which 1 -have-' not, tim'd'' to hunt tip ' jusi now,B.ut;wili .send yt to you - some^other 'time.2 suppose 'the' pateiitsfwill*isue before'long, I Have written ?eland with reference possibley, have to do, to he in position for ewfht-the Government: condems it,hecause ':rl3/-.--hej:jii's1>' -aval's alarm H „„ ||j|j H p | H the"vJuclge says, about it.Would ratlie’r sriride on now the Imve flatter is wrong,hit to the' 'ssojjg | and wha t ' we' sight jetting ripch out of. it,in’the J§j | H U I IPPPII of the res erwro ir.idpf.-^qt • sure jit owing up in ny min&e,,so wijjll waits, to see;.what i|| m |||ttftj grinde ’on-;the.'y|£*aiii if tyou. sjipulcl.';; up--about *250 in; tases” -on ;the'/p^per|ty,wqh.€i‘;.t^;'id^as' of* am-a little worried1 over tfhe imttOri" | i 'hup; osehyoti would lake to be- getting' -your1 fa: but X camfot' Seiad it,if 1 'catch' up interestj add’ seve tile blame cl thiilg can be casliell in, which Hiibne’ it II1 .id money • about. now, my- sit ;s to elf'until 1 before long. ' Ha&enb A better 'quit- for t is time,! have yorpfeiybbisk-and'scolded . and--all .those 'other things which a- ‘gentleman yrohabllsy weitld-not do,but miaft -tyeorus- wbiell#-; h babv e- rough-: neck' acquait#ar itc P. es. . .yo: u must ma-l|ie'•'therbes t -of 'a bad d Wery> truly1 .yowrisP iW of | § # tte©eiirea odd Hspence Incurred in .?.!8peslte 1^al with ^feegagt r£r *':£ •'?•'ijr V: 0 | ">\ > * «, 0 ’If ill n it t* |? Siee&tvmd fir s t p&jmmi under the 8$rcaQB»t in ®ate esp-mee is eXcsfisig tiaal .eg fellessf •te Zm$> %fis3Bs fsr-i* I. $i fare on trip- to HH «* te i stta&Kfc and hod in Eofpft H 5 locals in 1-os Vegas lx? ‘W» rtf £& m nay S1 thus on trip ^ % s @ per assy S nights $3 ’ws.^imfi ** rfS***. >*y«F fe pw cm t vaado fo r typing new c s o w instructions 2, "?<* fo fetor eortificntos of t it le frois County Cl erli — §bl» fo Certificates of title for four, groups o f f t # ® rOi'. .. -.*'• 1 ' • ....;i SiffSi: ... .S*..i.^». 5§W-- rte'- -,Vi • Mat .SSk • vi-(.liJfr S«L^ ’»Pi? :«Sk SS£c -.iiil free* County Becordor m M**m?* m%$*m*- :HV #€/ <A> i$*i? gVsyU^yw** On ;.istoeatlk o f liv e Thousand Sellars o,f|uelo $312,SO Os ^stoeath of $63*35 .{tec &mmm) o^iol© __ J S g i jjoch eixtemMi interest in d o t e is entitloo, out of W $3*000 after paying its pferfc of W. a • * ,.. Jinnee* 4 .. Ss-M: the .o^ponoe^ wliicl «£*£$ 6i,te 6308*51 ? Therefore tee fi* I# &a foitewi assas Ole the raricras clfttsteiits out- o f the llp f^ t m cdsteeat!m eswunts. to | 'Sadie B,sterpVvwo sixteenths a£s#imte to - €%&&> % p*«i% three sixteenths aasstts to - - fa s B.Sentry* one sixteenth aaom ts to - * - £11 on C, Perkins, one ointocntli ccrotmts te ** • i i l a sistem ti'i. asaoimte to. i - £Uu*ry £*Soiitrj,ote sistocntlus mmmts. to * < iia tte tefcol osi-esoe of &?&''' i I 0£$ifJ3 |- »33C0?8a,* 5m1. - * 13305C1;*0s8i ’WA W W£t*ft W1&fM ** \ ji-^ f eSli %iit% in te rest o f **q t I Gypluss to s #coaiiiats o f a ssaoH in terest in W of tBe |% & # eiaim #aal for cony^ii-anc© o f #||i eteiuount tfio wsm m induced’ witli tee interest of. Clara Bypto ns stated atete, the l i S ? interest dotspy aesytey and Harttm i:*6satry in teo c la lw , eonslste of 1 sssall interest in. the tm piaeei* elate,an d for .cowsresKionce in reclaming is ineludod site tee ahoro interest o f flarry P*‘im try> mutual, huteristendiisg site ttep* her! Syplms has at vmissms M <»'•««» had legal adriee froei the Isssr f$m & Stevens and h ^ ^ Q o n jU ite raference to %m rsasnesite claas®. mta |ft| various deals poadias. thereon* and has of fee ted a settlement with th®i tor tee @ii of l^ .w M te aaouat is 'not inelttde# in the Shove M l" of ^pejees, tMe $20' equal is §1*£6 on each one sixteenth interest,or $2*S0 on eate. one altet: interestin the dodj3®*3y^l'ais has it to pay end since i t w la * eurrci."'fer the general in te re st,if any o la te n t feels to heai* mm or her part of same i t w ill he ap, roeiatod, / \ f 17