<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>If you are ever wondering what it might have been like working for a railroad company in the early 20th century check out this report on the CRI&P valuations and details about the cost of railroad MOW.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020920040;view=1up;seq=60" target="_blank">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020920040;view=1up;seq=60</a></div><div><br></div><div>Reading this I learned something new -</div><div><br></div><div>1.) What Clearing and Grubbing is</div><div><br></div><div>2.) Who the general contractor was for La Salle Street station</div><div><br></div><div>and perhaps more importantly, why I never wanted to be an accountant.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what the real purpose of this was, but the CRI&P was in bankruptcy (2nd) around 1917.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div> </div></body> </html>