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Los Angeles. Oct 25, 1 9 1 7 ® Engineer of Maintenance, Los Angeles* Your memo of Get. 23rd, File 39-29, No*5-304 regarding salvaging stand pipe at Las Yagas yard* Las Yegas yard, we provided for an 8* hand operated vale to operate the stand pipe in its new location near the Intersection of the new 16* water main and m i n track, this hand operated valve toeing neces­sary to keep the valve hammer out of the vitrified main pipe line. In addition to this we figured on installing new pit and moving pres­ent stand pipe, all of which is provided in the Chief Engineer’s necessity of going to the expense lot $50 or $75 to put in concrete pit that could not toe drained conveniently, or the tying up of a stand pipe worth approximately $#00, especially since the aCUtomatic valve on this %tand pipe could not toe used and the further fact that this stand pipe is only used to fill ional water car* switch engine and an occas­the plan as provided in the original estimate, in a case like this where it is so apparent, at least to me* that a home made stand pipe built at an expense of something like B1G0, should to© substi­tuted f or the Sheffield stand pipe, and wherto the material salvaged will more than pay for the new installation, I do not see why we do not have authority to make such changes under the present appropria­tion, providing of course, that such change is approved or agreeable to the several engineering departments of the railroad* When hr* Maguire and I went over these pipe changes in Later on in considering fhe matter I could not see the While it is the usual intention iff doing work to .follow 1-3 cc - Chief Engineer*