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-this part of the country seems about 2 weeks behind the country back home, late snow and cold having held things up.

We visited Mr. Douglas Paton, Supt. of the Moshassuck Valley Railroad, a line at Saylesville about 5 miles total trackage and 1 1/2 miles long serving the Sayles Finishing Co., Lorraine Mfg. Co. and a couple of other industries, handling their switching and interchange with the New Haven at Providence Hump Yard. We rode the locomotive over about all the trackage and then had a good talk with Mr. Paton, an old Scotchman who has been on the job for 49 years and runs the railroad.  Evidently Kirtley of Plymouth has already been on the job and trying to persuade Paton to make a trip down to New Jersey to see a Flexomotive.  Paton didn't seem much enthused about mechanical drive but one never knows.  Paton said he would like to come to Erie to see what we have, which makes me feel we should get the demonstrator back from Pittsburgh Plate Glass.

We felt we had all we needed at Saylesville by 4 PM so we started back to Boston and contacted Goggin then by phone.  It was decided we should drive on to Concord where Ernie Blors was and contact him this evening, then Fowler of Suncook Valley tomorrow.  So we had dinner en route at Lowell and landed in Concord about 9 PM to find Ernie had just left for New York and Fowler would be away tomorrow.