CHEsoxEE AGENCY, East, August ls, 1898.
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GENTLEMEN:-ln answer ID the proposal, con.
tained in your note Of this morning, have to in.
form you that no arrangement of the kind can be
entered into, and that no offer can be made which
would induce me TO surrender the contract into
bther hands, but by the direction of the Chero-
Tees themselves.


| Stronger reasons than those based merely upon
IN probable profits Of the undertaking induced
'neto take the contract of this branch Of the bl.
sinss in the emigration, and | would not now
abaldon it..


Very respectfully,
your ob't serv't:
A(Sgned) LEWIS ROSS.


To Messrs. N. A. Bryan, II. E. Clements,
A. An erson, and Pierce B. Anderson.