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Mr.J.W>ss Clark* rs — (0— 2/l0/l3. location, finally decided to make the arrangement with us. I attach a letter from Mr. Wann and one from Mr. Burtner showing that the Southern Pacific aside from actively soliciting Mr. Sutherland's warehouse, have, in the past, erected a number of packing houses which they lease to fruit dealers and I think it is, to say the least, rather unreasonable for the Southern Pacific Officers to criticise us for attempting to secure some of these packing houses on our tracks in view of the large number of such houses they have built in the past, and which, if the rumors that reach me are approximately correct, they have leased on more favorable terms than we.have leased this house to the Sutherland Packing Company* I enclose a copy of my letter to the Special Committee recommending the construction of this house, which partially explains the necessity for building the house on a rather more ornamental style than the ordinary packing house. I was, at first, discinclined to comply with the request of Mr* Sutherland and several other prominent men in Riverside that we should construct a house of this character, but as they seemed to think it very important from their point of view and as the Sutherland Fruit Company was willing to pay interest on the additional cost, I finally acceded to their request. The house is by no means of so elaborate' or expensive a character as Mr. Sproule's telegram would indicate; it is a frame building, plastered on the outside and designed in the so-called Mission style to conform, in a way, to other buildings in that vicinity, and cost about $2,000.00 more than an absolutely plain wooden structure of that size would have cost. The expense of parking and seeding the around is to be borne by the Fruit Company and if they choose to so