Selections From The Splinters - Volume 12

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Topeka, Kansas July 29, 1886.

B F Booker
Keokuk, Iowa.

Dear Sir:

Yours of the 26th instant received. When here and verbally considering the subject of grades, I understand from you that a .6% grade line from Chicago to a point about half way between Chicago and Ft. Madison could be had with an expense very little in excess of what an .8% grade line would cost. It was with this in view that I wrote you on the 22nd instant. If your orders are out it may be as well to let work go ahead, and give me your judgment in connection with your report as to what additional expense a .6% grade line would incur.

In regard to Pile Bridges you are correct. The distances from bank to grade to bank to grade should be 10' less than total length of bridge.

Yours truly,

Volume 12 page 42 Splinters transcribed in altered form for the web by Matt Lee.

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