Peavine Pieces #2

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Harry,

You should know that first impressions are the best.  You should have stayed with the ICC.

Congress in 1913 passed the Valuation Act requiring the ICC to determine the valuation of each railroad.  Of course, the railroads had to do the coolie work of counting each rail joint, hammer, cuspidor, etc.  As the work dragged on for years, far longer than the Government anticipated, the ICC struggled to make sense of the mountain of statistical data, and the valuation work cost the railroads probably something like a half a billion dollars in today's money.

Gordon Hamilton
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  I can't find the Interstate Commerce Commission bound books that Harry is referring to  in the Archives database, and I was unable to find them when I visited the Archives during the Convention. Does anyone know where they are located in the Archives ?


  Winter Park, Florida

             Suspect this information has never been entered in the data base.  The volumes are located in the  middle room, west side adjacent to VGN Rwy. AFE's.  I indicated ICC made an inventiory, 
    but on  2nd thought it was most likely USRA
                                             Harry Bundy                                       

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