Letter from O. H. Nance to B. K. Purdum, 1915

4 ^arulaitb anb ^emtegl&ania Jlatlroab (Company. ^ortt| jAbeitup anb ©ak J&treet ©. p. ^Tancc ^reaibent anb (Bmtmil Manager. ®alttmore, ^b. st 9, 19; , , Hr. Б. K. Purdum, Sec. & Treas., I'd. State llomal Building Com., Ahnapolis, ”d. Hep. r Sire- Referring to your letter of July 20th in respect to amount due this company in connection with construction of sprar track from our main line to the State Hormal School near Tows on. I have delayed tehtng any action on this matter in an effort to get Mr, llorris, -ho cs you probably know is; not in our service at thi; time, to call on Hr. Linthicum and discuss this matter with him. I felt thav as Mr. llorris was here at the time and unde stood all the circumstances incident to the construction of thin track that he would be more able to convince Mr. Linthicum of the justice of our position than I would. I finally got Mr. llorris to go to Mr. Linthicum’ s office today but he found that ' r. Linthicum - as out of the city and -as not expected to return until September 1st. Of course, if there is no one else who can act in this matter, we will have to await Mr. Linthicum’ s return, although I feci that the railroad company should have had the money due it a long time ago. In this connection I beg to advise that in addition to the two bills mentioned in my letter of July 7th aggregating $1,051.72, I find that re also have a bill against you for work done during the month of June 1915 in connection with the extension of the track up to and over the coal bin which I did not understand at the time my letter of July #7th was written was included as part of the original plan but as I note that you evidently consider that this was ax part of the construction work for which the Commission was to pay $2000.00 all told and as the plue print shoring the lo¬ cation of the track includes this, I suppose we will have to include this item along with the others. On this basis the total cost Of the track including the grading amounts to