 1 at Hargraves, NSW.1908 saw him negotiating with Messrs G and C Hoskings, proprietors of the Eskbank Iron Works, about the sale of his discoveries of iron ore at Cooyal, Lowes Park and Tallawang.In 1909 he went so far as to set up an "open draught furnace" and produced some iron which he exhibited at the Mudgee Show.