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Wood pipe line - Las Yegas ? £ Los Angeles, May E, 1919# Mr A Maguire: B&B foreman who was in charge of the work performed by' our force while assisting the contractor las' absent from Las Vegas when he attempted to line up tha/necessary in­formation and that he is -new absent on a/leave so that he has not been able to £ with the fore­man in charge of the wort ception of the item "maki ts and connections", which diould be divided b E accounts no further corrections are n aking of the connections at' each end o which consisted of quite a large excavati pipe line and joining same to new pipe d to Operating expense, and from the bes ailable he states a figure of $300*00 i£L-fl-« that work* She estimate covering the w.or j ion for the use of wedges or shoring for the new line or for-special fitt­ings, which it was found necessary to have when making the; necessary connections for the wood pipeand as it is apparent that all charges which should properly go to this work are no® in it would seem that with the adjustment made to OE accounts on the old line connection work the matter should be closed out. However, Mr Mi that with the ex-