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    "title": "Letter from William Loeb, Jr. to E. A. Hitchcock",
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    "ocrText": "set birel\nin then can,\nSTATE OF NEW YORK\nLIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S Room\n16 my +\nALBANY\nIncluding has any\nsould countr\nOlean, N.Y. Nov. 23#-1903, actly\nHis Excellency, Theodore Roosevelt,\nseul go\nPresident of the United States, Washington, one Nuith me\nMy dear Mr. President: I received a call from\nJ R\nCongressman Vreeland, Senator Fancher and Mr. Whipple, Clerk\nof the Senate, last evening. They explained to me their\ndesires in relation to the granting of a permit by the\nSecretary of the Interior for the laying of a pipe line\nthrough the oil fields of the Indian Territory.\nAs you are doubtless aware, there are many oil operators\nwho have gone from Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana into\nthis new field for the purpose of developing its resources\nand of course, also, for personal gain. I know that you\nare a firm believer in the developing of the resources\nof our country, and this cannot be done successfully in\nthe oil fields except with the most modern facilities\nfor transportation, There might, perhaps, be objections\nraised to granting ean exclusive pipe line to the Prarie\noil & Gas Coo, but I cannot see any objection to granting\na franchise that is not exclusive, inasmich as the M. K. &\nI. R.Re, under existing rulings, are given an absolute\nmonopoly of whatever oil transportation there is in this\nfield, If you can consistently favor the wishes of my friends"
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