[D0014AAE], Letter from C A Baker to Thomas Alva Edison, May 2nd, 1900
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Denver, Colo. May 2, 1900. Thomas A. Edison, Esq. New York, N. Y. Dear Sir, I understand you have a plant in New Mexico, on the Ortiz grant, to work dry placers. Would you please inform me if it is a success and if so what terms it could be secured to work such placers in old Mexico, and what a plant of 10,000 cubic yards daily capacity cost f/o/b/at factory, and also what you consider the average cost of working the gravel per cubic yard to be. Yours very respectfully, CA Baker. [illegible] [TAE?] - [illegible] - [illegible] I have made a test plant at Ortiz testing the property Mill to be [evaluated?] [is?] [for?] 20 000 Cubic yards daily Cost evicted about with Railways [stain?] [illegible] Elc $500,000, = terms are subject of negotiation Edison [TAE Marginalia]