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UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION Director General of Railroads. Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Mutual Packing Co. —- Las Angeles, Jan. 30, 1920 B-12-443 Mr. J. it. Comp took, Assistant Oeneral Manager, Bear Sir® Returning enclosures received with yours of January 29 th, re la tive t© the above: 1 have no record of any agreement with Mr. £oodill to the ef fect fclu? t he would he allowed credit for tii© equipment ins tailed under his direction. 2 und ere tend, however, that he mode application to our operating depart­ment several months before the equipment was installed for the additional machinery, calling attention to the absolute necessity of same on account of the condition of the oranges that season — it being necessary to run them thru a stab­ilizer before shipping;. Long delay in installing the machinery could not be tolerated, therefore hr. Wood ill proceeded to have the work done* ’#« installed the original machinery, and no doubt in time we would -have added what he wanted. The building of the cniianey was evidently necessary and we would have taken care of this work alto in due course of tine It seems to me that the question is, whether or not we could have done or had the work done cheaper, which is doubt ful. Yours very truly, co-J hose Clark