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amount of Bridging will compare very favorably with the other Line - the increased distance is only seven miles - from your letter received to day I infer that this will be the location and shall put in the curves and get it ready for contract at once. The cheapest Line from the Missouri would be from Bellvue - and the abundance of stone in the vicinity would aid in the structures - I suppose this route is out of the question. In making the surveys I have aimed to get the cheapest and best line the country would furnish and have no choice as to the point the road leaves the River, but would suppose that the roads would unite by the M. & M. following up the Middle Raccoon and coming down the Boyer or the Cedar Rapids uniting in a route on Turkey Creek - and I could not readily understand the object of making increased distance to get into a point in the only route that it is practicable for the Cedar Rapids Road to cross into the Platte Valley - This of course was none of
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amount of Bridging will compare very favorably with the other Line - the increased distance is only seven miles - from your letter received to day I infer that this will be the location and shall put in the curves and get it ready for contract at once. The cheapest Line from the Missouri would be from Bellvue - and the abundance of stone in the vicinity would aid in the structures - I suppose this route is out of the question. In making the surveys I have aimed to get the cheapest and best line the country would furnish and have no choice as to the point the road leaves the River, but would suppose that the roads would unite by the M. & M. following up the Middle Raccoon and coming down the Boyer or the Cedar Rapids uniting in a route on Turkey Creek - and I could not readily understand the object of making increased distance to get into a point in the only route that it is practicable for the Cedar Rapids Road to cross into the Platte Valley - This of course was none of
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