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? A Copy T os Angeles , July 23 1918 Mr S H Foster: Referring to your order 351E, we had \ made definite arrangements for shipment of this pipe material the first week in July. The item that had “been holding, us up was the steel hands,hut they were received about two weeks ago and are now at our faotory^at East Wil­mington, Gal. Government placed an order with us ajfout three weeks ago for approximately £0 0 , 0 0 ft of machine handed redwood pipe, about 30,000 ft of which consists of 14" and 16" redwood pipe with individually banjfed wood c ollars ,and we will need all of the hand shoe# or coupligs we had on hand for your order for the cellars on this Government this pipe immediately,regardless of all other business, and we therefore are forced to advise you that shipment of your order will he delayed until we can secure a new supply of shoes from our eastern factory,and as we now' understand, it will take at least another 30 days before these shoes will arrive. to get the pipe material to you at the earliest possible moment and we trust that the delay will not .greatly inconvenience you. You will be advised as soon as we get definite word from the factory as to movement of the s ho es. order Xjr The Government ordered us to make shipment of Be assured we will do everything in our power Yours truly, Pacific Tank & Pipe Go