age it seemdd to us while he read ail the preliminaries. 
You and I have never seen each other and our frienshhiP 
has had to bridge a long gap? and yet to me it has been a very 
precious thing and I wish to thank you for ^hat you have given me 
and I hnc 3 ' you will understand how hard it has been to see the 
work of 33 years swept away» how exasperating it was to stand, there 
for nearly a week and have the sharpest cross examiner in the state 
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ridicule every claim we made and ask the iury to award us at the 
outside a sum which hardly give us the chance to begin again where 
I had started 33 years ago* But he had a hard-boiled lot of farmers, 
some of them men who had gone out into the timber and chopped out 
homes for themselves and they turned him down. 
Now it is all over we find ourselves "busted", all but 
the judgment. uur expenses, debts, a mortgage of' #8,000.00, etc. 
will eat up most of $15,000.00? but we will have enough left to 
get us a new location and finish the boys' education and the sat- 
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isfaction of being the f&rst to beat the city in what is really 
a robbery of our County* in all the years I have lived here I have 
never olaced a price on the -mace, though I have often been asked 
to, tut I have often thought that if I were offered 50,000 I would 
not be doing .justice to Mrs. p. and the boys if I refused it? and 
so although that for which I have worked has been destroyed I must 
feel that we have provided for the children and so it has not all 
been in vain. 
My second boy was an expert witness on soils and Powell, 
the city's attorney kept him on the stand for an hour trying to 
break down hist testimony and prove that the place was worthless. 
It was interesting to watch those men on the jury lean forward to 
catch every -"ord, while question and answer ^ere fired like rifle 
shots and finally Powell said, "You are a student at the state 
College, are you not? Yes. bo they have a course in advertising 
