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SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES AND SALT LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY V ' to exception taken by Mr. Sproule to our building a packing house at Riverside to rent to the Sutherland Fruit Company. pay us $30.00 a year ground rent; 6$ interest on the cost of the build­ing; 10$ upon the cost of the machinery and will keep the machinery from the contractor, but it is estimated that the building would cost |6143.00 and the machinery $2659.00. While we were negotiating with the Sutherland Fruit Company for the construction and lease of the building to them, they were being actively solicited by the Southern Pacific representatives to enter into an agreement with that Company for the construction of a warehouse for them on the Southern Pacific tracks, but Mr. Sutherland considering the location on our ground somewhat more advantageous for his purpose than the Southern Pacific ASSISTANT TO GENERAL MANAGER, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. ..Packing House - Sutherland Fruit Cc February 10, 1913 Mr. J, Ross Clark, Second Vice President Los Angeles, Cal Dear Sir:- I return your letter of January fourteenth with file relative The lease provides that the Sutherland Fruit Company shall $n repair at their expense. We have not received the final bills