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Nitre & Mining Bureau
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Selma office March 15 65
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| Maj Thos Peters |
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| Please order to be rolled at Shelby Iron
Works one hundred & fifty thousand pounds R. R. strap iron (with
the impression for spike holes) 2 1/2 + 7/8. |
| Col Hurt orders it for 2/4 miles of
RR {this would be correct for 40lb per
yard strap -- 1/2 mile, both tracks} |
| Respectfully |
| James T. Pettit |
| Maj & Insrp |
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| {written in a different hand on
the bottom of the letter} 150,000 lb 2
1/2 + 7/8 punched & cut |
| spikes & chairs for do. |
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