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A. While it was being constructed. I can=
=not answer as to that, when the consol=
=idation did take place.

Q. 701 Did the Contract and Finance Com=
=pany do all the work in the construction
of that road, — supply the material and
equipment of the road?

A. The Western Pacific?

Q. 702 Yes.

A. I think so, — all except the twenty
miles northward from San Jose.

Q. 703 That was built by other parties?

A. That was already built.

Q. 704 Do you recollect where the material
came from for the building and equip=
=ment of that road — the Western Pacific?

A. Well, I think we got a good many
of the ties — or the most of them — from West Evans.

Q. 705 Who paid for them?

A. He was paid by the Contract and
Finance Company.

Q. 706 And the rails?

A. The rails were got from different
manufactories in the Atlantic states.

Q. 707 Were not those rails purchased
from the manufactories you refer to by
C. P. Huntington?
"93"[written underneath "Q. 707"]

A. I do not know by whom they were

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