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     Will you submit figures as to the cost of the 12 skates you recommend ^[[we buy]] [[strikethrough]] bought [[/strikethrough]], together with anchors, buoy lines, etc.  We will be in Seattle a week, and it would be desirable to have you look over our present stock of lines.  Cannot arrangements be made whereby we could buy gear at short notice, should we need it?  At any rate, if you will send on the cost of the gear you recommend, I will authorise you to buy as much as I think advisable, until we get to Seattle.
     With regard to bait, if salt herring can still be had for $4.50 per barrel, you may negotiate for as many as 20 barrels, to be paid for on delivery.  I think it would be advisable not to order more than ^[[enough]][[strikethrough]]that[[/strikethrough]] for the first month's work, as we will put into Seattle about once a month.  But should there be any shortage of bait, or similar difficulty in securing it, you might order bait not to exceed the sum of $90.00 at present.
     There is one other matter I think might well be looked into, - the subject of steam line haulers.  In March number of the "Pacific Fisherman", there is an article figuring such a piece of apparatus.  Can such be secured in Seattle, in what time, and at what price?  As this seems to be the coming method of fishing, we ^[[may]][[strikethrough]]might[[/strikethrough]] try it out.
     Owing to the fact that you may have to spend considerable time in looking up these various matters, I shall