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San Jose, Calif.

November 16th. 1905.

HON. S.F. LEIB,

SAN JOSE,

DEAR SIR;

I enclose my cheque for five hundred dollars ($500.00)
in payment of your services in connection wtih the Railroad inva-
sion of my propery at Mountain View. I would have been willing
to pay ten times the amount if it could have been prevented, but
I know that it was impossible to do that. Please accept also,
my sincere thanks for managing the matter with so little of my
personal attention. This is particularly appreciated, as during
all of the time that matter had been pending, I have had an
unusual degree of perplexity and annoyance with other matters which
have required all the thought and attention that my limitations
would allow.

There is one point in which the settlement of the Mountain
View matter differs from what I expected. I had supposed that I
would give the Railrod Co. merely right of way and that I would
still own the strip, and if for any reason the road should not be
built, it could not be taken for any other purpose. I did not