NA, A&F 2/12/1862

Office of the Alabama & Florida Rail-Road Co., of Florida
Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 12th 1862
 
Com T M Brent
 
Dr Sir,
    Mr Chadwick of the firm of Crary & Chadwick Pensacola desire to obtain 500 ft. white pine lumber and 1000 ft mahogany lumber for the purpose of making patterns for Rail Road wheels. This wood is indispensable for this object and it is also indispensable that it should be well seasoned. It cannot be obtained except from the Government deposit. These gentlemen are men of character. Mr. Chadwick for a number of years carrying on a f?????.
   The wheels which it is proposed to be made from these patterns are indispensable to the operations of our road and other roads immediately in connection with ours. Already we are beginning to feel serious inconvenience from being cut off from our usual sources of supply, the most southern ones having been recently ??? Richmond Va., and the works there not only being ????? but absolutely declining to furnish work for private accounts, being employed to their utmost capacity on work for the Government.
   The importation in a military point of view of obtaining an immediate and adequate supply of Rail Road wheels is too ??? to ??? than it should be urged upon your consideration.
Yr obt svt
O M Avery
Gen'l Sup Ala & Fla R R

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