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Guthrie, November 21, 1899.

Mr. James Dun,
Chief Engineer,
Topeka, Kansas.

Dear Sir:

In the matter of the construction of the line of railroad of the Eastern Oklahoma
Railway east from Guthrie, I wish to call your attention to the contract of the Atchison Company with Messrs Guss and Coyle; our contract with them is that the line shall be constructed and in operation from Guthrie east to the crossing of the River by the first day of January. Based upon this contract with us Messrs Guss and Coyle made contract with the people at Perkins by which they agreed that the line of railroad should be constructed and in operation from Guthrie to Perkins by the first day of January, and hinging upon the construction of the line to Perkins at that time hangs a cash subscription to Messrs Guss and Coyle of five thousand dollars.

Messrs Guss and Coyle have assumed a very large contract with us in the
furnishing of this one hundred miles of right of way and I am rather of the opinion that if by reason of our failure to comply with our contract, at least to have the line constructed and in operation to Perkins by the time named that they will have a valid offset against us in the sum of five thousand dollars which they will lose from their subscriptions.

Very truly yours,

(Sgd) Henry E. Asp

Solicitor for Oklahoma.

V.

CC to EPR.

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