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I % Fob. 11, 1913. 1667 Senator W« A, 01&rk Lob Angeles® Lear Brother: I return papers received with your favor of January 6 th, originating with a message from President Sproule of the Southern Pacific Company to Messrs. Kruttschnitt and for the Sutherland Fruit Company at Riverside. I am attaching letters from Messrs, Nutt, Wann and Burtner (the latter our traffic man at Riverside) as I thought you would like to send the entire correspondence to Judge Lovett. using every endeavor to get the Sutherland packing house on their rails, offering them the same inducements that we did, hut Mr. Sutherland seemed to think the location on our line more advantageous. officials about the inducements that were held out, which I think rather ill advised to spy the least. The Southern Paci.fio own and lease at the present time more than twenty packing houses, some of them being specified in Mr. Burtner's letter to Mr. Wann of February 6th. Naturally the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific have repeatedly tried to get ns to Frankly, it is simply a case of the Southern Pacific Failing to secure the packing house, they complain to their higher m
