The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-21

 I Two thousand, one hundred and seventy eight yards of chert was every yard tha was placed on the eight-mile haul A that time the nine-mile haul had not beer completed.
 On January he wrote a letter to the board of revenue stating that there was n" eight and nine-mie haul on this work and proceeded to place the yardage or the eight-mile haul on the seven-mile haul and the yardage on the nine-mile haul on the six-mile haul. Jerry Gwin received daily reports, until the entire work was completed, as to the amount of yardage and the mile on which it was placed and we paid our subcontractors for every yard of chert hauled as per mile haul until the ninth mile was completed. If there had not been an eight and nine- nile haul on this work, then the estimate Jerry Gwin gave us on December was in excess of what was due us for work done during the month of November and his statements are wholly untrue or he was an incompetent engineer. Jerry Gwin, accept one or the other.
 Jerry Gwin stated in one of his articles in which he compared the cost that he allowed 5c per yard for quarrying, shoot ing and loading chert. Just at this point will state for the benefit of the public that we have sworn affidavit from Wat sell Contracting company that we paid them $757.6o for drilling for chert in this, Shelby county pit We also have re ceipted bills and cancelled checks show ing that we have paid $99O for explosives to do this blasting, making approximate ly 16c per cubic yard for shooting an1 drilling this chert, to say nothing of the cost of hammering, breaking up, quarry Ing and loading it. Who is telling the truth? You can judge.
 Will state here that we have never asked the board of revenue to allow us any privileges regarding the recheckins of this road but we have as much right, in fact more right, to ask the board of revenue to allow us the privilege of select ing one man, out of the three, to repre- sent us, as Jerry Gwin has to select one to represent him. We will state further and state frankly that we think the board Of revenue erred in not selecting three men instead of one. We stated this at the time, but we would not care if they had selected dozen or more. So much for the Lower Coumbiana road. There has never been an iota of fraud perpe- trated on our part nor on the part of any other man as far as we know with the exception of Jerry Gwin striking at the board of revenue. over us, for being fired
 With all due respect to Mir. Worthing- ton and the board of revenue as to MT. Worthingtons findings. We do not care. We have contract with Jefferson county and have lived up to this contract and we do not fear as to not getting our money.
 We note in the Birmingham papers of the afternoon of the 17th statement from Jerry Gwin regarding the sale of ;. traction engine to Jefferson county for S2110. Jerry Gwin knows this is absolutely false. What on earth has the machinery and culvert business got to do with the Lower Columbiana road? We did not sell any machinery for that road nor any cul- vert and it has absolutely nothing what ever to do with the controversy which has been existing. But we are perfectly willing to go into every detail if it was PoSolpiC lpI uS u OO So, put no Issue of any daily paper of Birmingham would contain all our transactions, regarding the different deals we have made in this and other states, as it has amounted to more than half million dollars in the past F months, but. our signed orders and in- voices are on file in our office and we will take pleasure in showing any of tfem to any one at any time. We feel that it is proper for us to go into a few of the declarations md cha ,x,bio =. has made. About the first of June, 1913, the board of revenue was in the market for a trac- tion engine. We shipped one here on trial and another company did likewise. The two engines were put out to work in the county and the county kept them for six or eight weeks. The other company's en- zine went all to pieces and proved to be anything else but what the county want ed. This engine was kept on the work in charge of Gwin's kinfolks. Gwin did everything he could and recommended this engine to the board, but with all that it went to pieces and the county purchased our engine over Gwin's recommendation for the other engine. Our engine proved to be satisfactory in every respect and the board of revenue said only last week to delegation from Mississippi that they had only a few words to say regarding it. best in the word.' You will see from our proposition, which was accepted, as to $271O traction engine. Any man can see this on the minutes of the board, Book No. p, page +.
 Birmingham, Ala 7-21-13 Hon Board of Revenue. Jefferson Coun-
 ty, Birmingham, Ala:
 Gentlemen-We beg to submit the fol- lowing prices to-wit:
 15-3o oil pull tractor engine, equipped
 for road purposes. s.....................s1. .s1 .95o Freight ....................... 95 One Russell scarifier. ier.................... 800 One moldboard and extra blade for
 use when scarifier is removed .. 100 Freight on scarifier and moldboard.. 65
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