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send you will be of great interest to you as showing the value of the 

 article, etc. We have nothing whatever to do with the Company, but 

 m 'rely got the prospectus for the information therein contained. 

 Placing our services at all times at your disposal, 

 We remain, Dear Sir, 



Yours respectfully, 



Duxlop Brothers & Co. 



Director Public Gardens and Plantations to Messrs. Dunlop Bros. 



11th December, 1895. 



Dear Sir, 



I have received a letter addressed by you to the Colonial Secretary. 



The Public Gardens here are growing large quantities of Ramie for 

 distribution to planters as soon as a suitable decorticating machine has 

 been discovered. 



About a cwt. of dried Ribbons have been stripped by hand and will 

 be sent to you as a sample by the next Mail, but as it will not pay by 

 this process nothing further can be done until a machine is manufac- 

 tured for the purpose. Yours t , 



J W. J 1 AAVCETT. 



Messrs. Dunlon Brothers Co., to Director Public Gardens. 



49 Fenchurch Street, London, 10th March, 1896. 



Dear Sir, 



We duly received your esteemed favour of the 11th December last, 

 ^and have since received the case of Ramie Fibre which you mentioned 

 in that letter. 



We assume and we trust correctly that you wish us to do three 

 things with the sample of Ramie Fibre which you were good enough 

 to send us. 



First. To find out for 'you if the quality of the Fibre was good and 

 suitable for manufacturing purposes, also if the condition in which it 

 iras sent over was satisfactory. 



Secondly. To give you an idea of its value and the likely consumption 

 that there would be of such Fibre. 



Thirdly. The best means of decorticating the Fibre so as to reduce 

 the expense of producing it as much as possible. 



As we are practically advising the Government through you, we 

 consider it our duty to give a practical report and not a theoretical one, 

 we therefore, have gone to considerable trouble in visiting such manu- 

 facturing centres as Nottingham, etc., with regard to this Fibre, and 

 we have also seen and are still in negotiations to see some of the most 

 modern Machines for decorticating and working the Fibre, but we are 

 not in a position yet to lay before you any Machine that we can say is 

 better than others although we hope before next mail to give you our 

 recommendations and also to name the Machine that we consider best. 

 In the meantime it gives us great pleasure to inform you that all 

 experts are unanimous that the sample of Ramie Fibre sent by you and 

 grown in Jamaica is the b st article that has ever been sent to London, 

 and in the state that you sent it over. We can find buvers of 50 tons 

 up to 100 tons per month. We sold part of the sample @ 18/ per cwt~ 

 and had we had 10 tons of it, we could have realised the same price. 



