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This plan was laid before W, F. Merrill, General Manager of the H. 

 and St. Joe R. R., and heartily approved by him and he promised the 

 assistance of one of his civil engineers, who would see that the grading 

 was done properly, and also promised that the Kidder section gang 

 should do what it could in executing that part of the work. It only re- 

 mains, therefore, for the people of Kidder to take hold of the work, do 



