Dear Aubrey.
Yours of the 12th received & I got into touch with the Mt Lyall Company & their reply was as follows.
It will be necessary for parcel of about FIVE POUNDS to be sent to the companys works for analysis.
When the contents of the sample are ascertained & if the result is of interest to the company, they will make an offer of per ton for the supply of same to Fremantle.
I would suggest that you drop across a passenger by one of the boats thus avoiding any expense & ask them, or him, to deliver to No 5 Mc Neils Chambers, Barrack St & I will attend to the rest.
I do hope there is something in this for you & that there is no one that knows enough to forestall you in securing the right to mine. If the result is good, then wire to me, or write & give me enough details for my information for the Mines Dept.
Hubert is getting on fairly well & will pull through I think, as long as the next season is not a shicer.
What price the intepred explorers (per plane) who get directions from a Mission Station half an hour before they crashed (or sludged) then sit fro eleven days, listening to all the frantic wires that are encircling the earth & still sit on their behind too tired to do a bit of a walk to the said station, just fifteen miles as the crow flies & have to exist on Mud Snails, which we call Periwinkles & for the which provide a good part of a meal in the shire I hail from for the very poor, who cannot buy expensive meat.
