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letterhead DETROIT, MICH. Dec 4/06 Prof Jno Muir. Martinez Cal Dear Sir, In the November issue of The World's
Work I was much interested in what you are p illegible ported to have said concerning the petrified forests of Arizona. Over
20 years ago I undertook to invent machinery which would work that refractory mat illegible al. G illegible illegible e of
Arizona and Judge Bryce of New Orleans had been induced by one Wm Adams (a cow boy) to visit the forest, and they contracted
with the Railway for such as lay upon Railway lands, and filed mineral claims on such as lay upon good Lands. The brought
a car load of the illegible eted material to St Louis, and at the urgent? illegible tation of Tiffany C. New York I went to
St Louis to see the material. I contracted with the p illegible to devise a way to cut and polish the material. At the polishing
works of the Drake Company at Sioux Falls South Dakota I experimented for several months and finally succeeded. Col Frank
C. H illegible of Phoenix A. illegible . succeeded to the Bryce illegible T illegible e interest and for nearly 20 years we
have endeavored to make 03778