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Office of the Light House Engineer
Thirteenth District

Portland, Oregon, Jan 15, 1873

Prof Joseph Henry:
Chairman Light House Board
Washington, D. C.

Sir:
The following telegram has been
this day sent you:
Sixteen lantern deck-plates, and
sixteen cases Lantern Apparatus
received at Foulweather. Following
at missing: eight lantern posts, sixteen
floor lights, sixteen rafters, and
sixteen tie-rods. Gene Michler
telegraphs "not in San Francisco."

Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Henry M. Robert
Maj. of Eng'rs & L. H. Eng'r,
Thirteenth District