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ties. The Cedar on the Missouri River is in the vicinity of Frankfort and St James and in the Bluffs, in the entire extent equals about forty acres - Some three years ago a man living there split out a few Hundred posts and rafted them down here failing to sell them at remunerative rates he left them to be sold as best they could, some of the remnants sold from six to ten cents - this is the only transaction of the kind that has occured here in the last eight years - as I learn from men who have been doing business on the river for that length of time. Cottonwood ties can be contracted for and piled up on the river bank here, for from thirty to forty cents, at the present rates for labor, but what you need can not be got out by men living here. The hard wood ties will cost from Seventy to seventy five cents. The most of the cedar fence post in use in fact all that have been brought here except the small lot alluded to before have been brought from Cottonwood Springs by return freight teams from Denver-
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ties. The Cedar on the Missouri River is in the vicinity of Frankfort and St James and in the Bluffs, in the entire extent equals about forty acres - Some three years ago a man living there split out a few Hundred posts and rafted them down here failing to sell them at remunerative rates he left them to be sold as best they could, some of the remnants sold from six to ten cents - this is the only transaction of the kind that has occured here in the last eight years - as I learn from men who have been doing business on the river for that length of time. Cottonwood ties can be contracted for and piled up on the river bank here, for from thirty to forty cents, at the present rates for labor, but what you need can not be got out by men living here. The hard wood ties will cost from Seventy to seventy five cents. The most of the cedar fence post in use in fact all that have been brought here except the small lot alluded to before have been brought from Cottonwood Springs by return freight teams from Denver-
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