[D0014AAE], Letter from C A Baker to Thomas Alva Edison, May 2nd, 1900
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Title
[D0014AAE], Letter from C A Baker to Thomas Alva Edison, May 2nd, 1900
Author
Recipient
Date
1900-05-02
Type
Folder/Volume ID
D0014-F
Microfilm ID
186:878
Document ID
D0014AAE
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
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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]
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]