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Form 1000-7-07-1 Om-li H. I. BOTTLS, A uditor r Subject: wagon scale weights at Los Angeles, SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES AND SALT LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY .$'(,'' ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT In your rejl^^p^userefer to No._ .crX LAW DEPARTMENT MAR 27 1908 S.P.L.A.jcS; S. L.R.R.CO.I Los Angeles, C a l,, March £6, 1908, v Mr.W.R.Kelly, General Counsel. ^ Mr.F .A.Wann, General T ra ffic Manager. Dear S irs: As stated in my le tt e r of March third, on the subject of claims Western Implement Company and the Pioneer Roll Paper Company, I have been in communication with Superintendent Cullen to see i f some arrangement could not be made^to have a l l wagons weighed lig h t before each load, and find that with the exception of the f i r s t tr ip in the morning, most of the lig h t wagons return over the F irst Street bridge, which would require them to be driven four blocks out of their way to weigh before loading on Anderson Street, and from two to three blocks out of the way when loading on Myer Street; that representatives of four of the large truck and transfer companies object very strenuously to weighing wagons lig h t before each load while our wagon scales are located as they are at present. The Superintendent states that a request was made and an appropriation secured fo r the in stallatio n of wagon scales at F irst and Anderson Streets, which would admit of wagons being con­veniently weighed lig h t in each case before being loaded, but that