File No. 861.77/125a
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia ( Francis )
1564. For John F. Stevens [from Daniel Willard]:
Endeavoring secure money from Treasury to enable compliance your several cables regarding purchase locomotives, cars and machinery for erection Vladivostok. Cable full description shop [Page 194] buildings agreed upon, also if traveling cranes intended, give distance between centers of rails on runways, also height from runway to floor and height to underside of roof truss, and exact type Brown cranes suggested. Also advise what use boilers will be put to and number required. Important complete information sufficient make intelligent purchase here. Five hundred locomotives and 10,000 cars already ordered. Fifteen hundred locomotives, 30,000 cars under consideration. Consider it unnecessary erect shops Vladivostok if money can not be provided for remainder locomotive and car requirements.