My dear Brown.

I have received your letter of September 3rd.
Eveidently my letters have been very slow in reaching you, since you have not received the leter I worte over a month ago with instructions regarding the trasnportation of materials. I f you have secured as much as half a freight car it may be possible for me to arrange to transportation; and I hope you will communicae with me promptly.
I am very glas indeed tha tthe quarried turn out so well, and I trust we shall be reqarded at last by some new forms.
In my earlier letters, which in the absence of definite instructions I mailed to Miles City, I spoke of prospecting; but the season is passing rapidly now, and you must use your best judgement.
As regards the teams, the future use of them depends entirely upon your prospects and also upon the possibility of selling them without heavy loss. If you can sell them for two-thirds or three-fourths of what you paid for them, I want you by all means to do so. Even at one half what you paid for them, it will be cheaper than for us to keep them through the winter, and move them a considerable distance next spring.
Possibly Professor Lull will reach he Museum before long and will inform me more clearly regarding your operations during September.
We have very good news from the other parties except that I have not heard from Gidley yet.
Always with best wishes and hoping soon to hear from you, I am
Very sincerely yours,
[Prof. Osborne]