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/ SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES AND SALT LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY Mr. J , Ai Reeves, 0 . G.R.A. Oregon Short Line, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Sir: Your favor o f the 7th inst, advising that your Company w ill in sist on the shippers' weight on coal, and that you w ill refuse to accept the scale weights as procured at this end of the lin e . and i f so there should he very l i t t l e occasion for lo ss. It occurs to me that should there he at any time a sta rtlin g difference in the shippers weights compared with track scale weights at this end, that this Company would he up against a proposition in charging more than the actual weight of the coal as found in the car at this point, pro* vided, o f course, same was up to the minimum and in accordance with the t a r if f s . duced as against Gallup coal, hut i f your Company are going*to handi­cap us by refusing to accept scale weights at this point when the shippers of Gallup coal are w illin g to do th is, I am afra id our ship­ments w ill decrease instead o f increase. I wish you would give this matter your further consideration. I T R A F F I C D E P A R TME N T G E N E R A L T R A F F I C M A N A G E R L O S A N G E L E S cal., Bept.TTT&rH? In reply refer to File No. 2354----A It is my understanding that this coal is shipped in box cars I have been trying very hard here to have Utah coal intro- J CC Judge K elly Yours tru ly , (Signed) F. A. W ain