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rh ma r EL PASO SMELTING WORKS engineering department December 13th, 1947 DEC--c^^ ^ Havens Structural Steel Company, 1713 Crystal Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri ATTENTION: -f.R. AftTHPH ZAC HOW Oentlemon: 2L PASO CD-513-3, N.Y. 14940 'Ve have Just learned that the Asbestone Corporation, How Orleans 15, Louisiana, are offering Corrugated Asbestos-Cement shoots 42" vide with 10 corrugations 4.2" center to center for ship ment two weeks after receipt of approved layout prints. Their reconsr.endad maximum spacing for roofing Is 4'-on while most of our purlins are on 4'-10" conters with a few at 5'-2". Due to not having to figure any snow loading at ill Paso, we are willing to use these corrugated asbestos sheets without changing our purlin spacing. Plea.-9 disregard my letter of December 15th instructing you to furnish 20 gauge Corrugaied Steel Sheets when you could get them and advise what the additional cost would be if you substitute these corrugated asbestos sheets. Your proposal should be sent to Yr. 1, v, Thomley with a copy Air-Mail to this office. In contacting Asbestore Corporation for a proposal, plsase be advised that staggered joint application will be satisfactory but that wq will want lead headed fasteners In place of their standard fasteners. Yours truly, A .'.CIRIC AN 3M2LTINO RTF III IN 3 CO. cotregular mail 2V?Thornley SKcLTittmunn LFrewin ^ C. C. HURT Chief Hn^ineer ASA-878 ASARCO ELP 0006014