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October 3rd, 1898.

John Hurd, Esq.,
Bridgeport, Conn.
Dear Sir:-
Replying to your favor of the 29th ultimo asking how we arrived at the scrap value of a destroyed car and where you could sell the scrap from your cars.
The Jackson Rolling Stock Company, who own the Fort Wayne and Jackson Red Line cars, have been tearing down some of these cars and the actual weights of the scrap material in one of these cars is as follows:-
Cast Iron, 2076 lbs. per car
Wrought Iron, 2705 lbs. per car
Springs, 191 lbs. per car
Brasses, 72 lbs. per car
4 axles, 325# each, 1300 lbs. per car
8 wheels, 525# each, 4200 lbs. per car
Eight of these cars were torn down about two months ago. On the basis of the above weights and at the then current market prices for scrap, the cars brought about $61.00 each. From this we deducted two or three dollars per car for labor tearing them down and weighing the scrap, thus making the cars net us about fifty eight dollars ($58.00) each. 
R. L. Ginsburg and Sons of this city buy large quantities of scrap material and if you could get your cars together and dismantle them somewhere on the line of the N.Y.C & H.R.R.R., I would suggest that you communicate with Messrs. Ginsburg and Sons and perhaps they would purchase the scrap.
Yours truly,
Charles L Freer