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M.M. Cahoon correspondence with Thomas C. Durant regarding contractors Miller and Patterson, Coalville, Utah, January 1869

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Mr T. C. Durant
Coalville Jan 21 1869
Vice Pres. Union Pacific Railway
Dear Sir
Realizing, that you are burdened with a great amount of business and care - we feel a delicacy in troubling you with a complaint - but our circumstances are such that we are driven to the necessity of appealing to you for Redress. It appears to us that we have been swindled in the estimate of our work Miller and Patterson have withheld from our Credit an estimate of some 3000 C. Yards of Rockwork amounting to some 4 or 5 thousand Dollars Please refer to the map of the Road near the sumit of Echo between Stations No 45 and 49 you will see a Rock Point through which we have made a Cut under contract from Miller and Patterson, the first estimate was made directly after we had commenced work amounting to 315 yds Earth and 30 yds loos Rock - another estimate was subsequently made amounting to something over 3000. yds. Rock. - this is the estimate that has been kept off from our credit - it was made out and handed over to Mr Patterson, we were not permitted to see it, nor to have a coppy from Mr Gillis - At one time while in the office of M & P. Patterson said they had received an estimate on our Job - amounting to some 3000 Yds of Rock - he went to the Desk and took it out and examined it and remarked that there was some 90 yds loos Rock included in it as we had expected it was all solid he was very careful to put it away without letting us see it

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Mr T. C. Durant Coalville Jan 21 1869 Vice Pres. Union Pacific Railway Dear Sir Realizing, that you are burdened with a great amount of business and care - we feel a delicacy in troubling you with a complaint - but our circumstances are such that we are driven to the necessity of appealing to you for Redress. It appears to us that we have been swindled in the estimate of our work Miller and Patterson have withheld from our Credit an estimate of some 3000 C. Yards of Rockwork amounting to some 4 or 5 thousand Dollars Please refer to the map of the Road near the sumit of Echo between Stations No 45 and 49 you will see a Rock Point through which we have made a Cut under contract from Miller and Patterson, the first estimate was made directly after we had commenced work amounting to 315 yds Earth and 30 yds loos Rock - another estimate was subsequently made amounting to something over 3000. yds. Rock. - this is the estimate that has been kept off from our credit - it was made out and handed over to Mr Patterson, we were not permitted to see it, nor to have a coppy from Mr Gillis - At one time while in the office of M & P. Patterson said they had received an estimate on our Job - amounting to some 3000 Yds of Rock - he went to the Desk and took it out and examined it and remarked that there was some 90 yds loos Rock included in it as we had expected it was all solid he was very careful to put it away without letting us see it