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Eastern Oklahoma Ry.
Office of Resident Engineer
July 13, 1900
Guthrie, Oklahoma

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

Dear Sir:--

The following is the work in progress on the E. O. Ry.

Between Ripley and Perkins a gang is placing rip rap, heretofore unloaded from cars. Station consisting of bunk house and car body has just been started at Goodnight.

Material has been distributed for pile piers and for girders from Guthrie to Ripley. Practically all piling for girders has been driven between Stillwater and Pawnee. Three spans of the Cimarron river bridge are framed and swung complete, and 4th span has lower chord laid. Spans on the Stillwater creek both framed and swung.

At Mehan a bunk house has been built as part of a proposed depot, the order for which has now been countermanded.

Surfacing is complete to mile 63, and I have a gang of about 60 men working between that point and Pawnee, taking the worst places on the curves first. The material in this part of the line: i.e. from Glencoe to Pawnee is very poor for track purposes, and it would be clear economy for us to haul in some form of surfacing material. There is however, no bank of sand available nearer than Ripley, and unless a steam shovel were put in it would be too expensive to be thought of to bring material from that point. The work goes very slowly as I can only use the best of the top soil, and even then cannot get a lasting surfacing material.

At Yost, work on the reservoir is going on, rock having been struck in the spill way. I have had the reservoir site fenced in.

At Glencoe, work on the industrial track is in progress.

At Pawnee the station is about done except the painting, and I am ready to begin grading for the completion of the East end of the yards.

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In the matter of unloading material, there were at Perkins on the 12th, 5 cars of steel, two cars piles, two of caps, and one of crossing plank, waiting unloading. With the exception of the steel these will be unloaded this week; as we have averaged five cars unloaded each day recently. The steel however, being in stock cars for which there is not an active demand at present, I thought best to let it remain where it is while the other material is being unloaded.

Yours truly,

(Sgd) H. C. Phillips

Resident Engineer.

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