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attention you have shown to our
interests, and request that you
will use your influence with
the Govt. to prevent the consum-
mation of their plans until we
have had an opportunity of
expressing our wishes by
petition.

I believe it will be found
that a locomotive railroad will
be more economical
than a horsepower railroad, because
it is impossible to convert a
horsepower into a steam power
railroad, and in the course of a
few years, we shall have to make