| Selby Iron Works |
| Jany 22d 1865 |
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| Maj Thos Peters |
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| Dr Sir, |
| A train {Alabama
& Mississippi Rivers RR} came in tonight with 2 cars corn
& one car of coal. |
| As I wrote you a few days
since there were 4 cars of our coal at the switch for us in the
morning of the 17th. Two other cars were taken to Selma that morning
& the other two to Montevallo. I learn by the conductor that all
have been taken to Selma. This sort of business will not do.
Stir the RRd men up. |
| I wrote Mr Andrews that if he
would have 12 cars at the coal road each Saturday the day he himself
proposed, and no other cars for anyone else that they would be
loaded and ready for his engine on the next day by 10 o'clock, and to
instruct the conductor to see that no loaded cars were in ahead of
them. The arrangement I made was for loading on that day. The parties
may & may not be able to do the work if the cars are left at
random. |
| The
boiler was left at the Bibb Rolling Mills. How was this? I thought it
was for us. |
| Yos &c |
| A. T. Jones |
| V. P. |