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A. I think it was the price that they
could be obtained and delivered here for.

Q. 736 You cannot state the price that the
Contract and Finance Company paid in
any one year for rails?

A. No; I cannot.

Q. 737 Was there any other material purchased
through the instrumentality of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company which was used
by the Contract and Finance Company in the
performance of its contract with that road?

A. I do not think of any other. — Yes: some
of the equipment was furnished in that way.

Q. 738 Were not the cars and locomotives
which the Contract and Finance Company
claim to have put upon that road purchased
by the officers or employes [employees] of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company?

A. That is what I refer to when I say
"the equipment."

Q. 739 Can you explain the object or purpose
of the Central Pacific Railroad Company
in employing the Contract and Finance
Company to do its work, "with"[scribbled out] [caret]"when it had" all the facil=
=ities for obtaining the material and doing
the work itself?

A. No sir; I cannot. I cannot explain the
objects of the Central Pacific Railroad Company.

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