Charles Bessey, Letters, 1891

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Do not know who the state geologist or I would write to him concerning the soil.

Respectfully M. E. Mahaffy

Mn. R. N. Mahaffy Milldale, Nebr.

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kindly offers to send one to any scientific investigator I may name to the end that it may be carefully & thoroughly tested, and asks that the result of such test be reported be it favorable or unfavorable and I have suggested sending one to you that you may try it, and have the Phycust of the State Uni try it if you choose As I understand it Mr Anderoson, the inventor, claims that

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by having the top of this coffee cooker airtight and thus forcing the steam from the cooker to pass down through the channels arranged for that purpose it is brought directly in control with the heated metal bottom of the cooker & taken up by the heat. I am not well enough informed to say how this is done but as others say no odor arises from this process I am curious to have it examined. As the owner of this invention has

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but recently sent forward his papers to the Patent Office he desires that publicity for the present be avoided. If you have no objections I should be pleased to have you give the coffee cooker I will have forwarded to you an expert tect & let me know at earliest convenience if it is all that is claimed for it and if constructed on scientific principles & oblige Resp. John L Marshall

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