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EVERETT MANUFACTURING COMPANY
MANUFACTURERS OF
Everett Portable Dumping Boxes
TO FIT ANY WAGON
NEWARK, NEW YORK 

Chas. B. Herendeen, Mgr.

August 1 1921

Geo, H. Pepper,
New York City.

My Dear Friend:-

  Your letter of the 29th ult. just received and to say that I was disappointed in not seeing you while at this end of the State, hardly expresses it, however let us hope that sometime in the near future, we may have the pleasure of making a trip down around the Seneca River where the Cayugas once held forth.

  'Tis a mighty little I know about the aborigines, but I can spot his little stone implements as far as the next fellow and I doubt if anyone finds more pleasure than I, when on Indian ground and trying to find the relics of bygone times.

  It was not for profit that I became interested in this kind of a pursuit, but ever since I was a boy, I have had the hobby for such things and while I have not been able to devote much time to hunting for Indian relics, yet I do occasionally get out and sometimes make fairly good finds from my viewpoint.

  Some of the later finds include a couple of banner stones, one I should judge was nearly finished, while the other was in the course of construction, both being shaped something similar to a butterfly; lots of sinkers have been picked up; skinning stones, pestles; mortars; pieces of pottery; pieces of steatite kettles; hammer stones; knives of both flint and field stone; Spear and arrow heads; drills and several other kinds of implements, the use of which I do not know.

  One find was a sort of a cache containing quite a lot of blanks (?), these were flint pieces partly worked and from 3 to 5 inches in length; then of course I must mention the pop eye birdstone about which I wrote you a year or two ago, to say nothing of an occasional piece of skull, rib, femur and other bones, to all of which you might like to give a few minutes of your time.

Sincerely yours,
[[Signed]] Chas. B. Herendeen [[/Signed]]

[[written on side of letter]] Should you happen this way, I could lead you to a real wampum belt that was unearthed near Boughton Still and quite a few other things that came from that vicinity [[/written on side of letter]]