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[[insertion]] Coll [[/insertion]] [[preprinted]] [[image - blue header: W.S. JENKS FURNACES, RANGES AND LATROBES. STOVE REPAIRS. GAS AND GASOLINE STOVES. 717 SEVENTH STREET N.W.]] [[Image - printed of oven range and of the White House.]] [[caption]] THIS RANGE INSTALLED BY US IN THE WHITE HOUSE [[/caption]]] [[/preprinted]] [[preprinted]] [[strikethrough]] WASHINGTON, D.C. [[/preprinted]] [[/strikethrough]] Auburndale March 13 [[preprinted]] 190 [[/preprinted]]9 [[insertion]] Ansd Mch[[Ref?]] [[/insertion]] Dr F. W True. Dear sir Yesterday I visited the phosphate mines. The company has purchased about eight hundred acres, and have excavated nearly 12 acres. The mining is done by hydraulic power. This is done same as placer mining [[strikethrough]] is do [[/strikethrough]] The water being forced by a powerfull pump. Through an inch and a half. nozzle. With a pressure of 175 lbs to the square inch. No one could get near where the water [[strikethrough]] w [[/strikethrough]] was tearing and forcing out great boulders of phosphate. All this [[insertion]] loose material [[/insertion]] is drawn by suction through a ten inch pipe one thousand feet to where it is cleaned and dried. The 12 [[strikethrough]] eight [[/strikethrough]] acres excavated are 12 to 15 feet