Co. may send a one year contract drawn in triplicate
for three cars of egg coal per week at $1.12½ per net
ton, cars f.o.b. mines. Of course it is understood
that the usual clauses regarding accidents or other
unavoidable happenings on either side will be
inserted. Write the letter.
=Exercise 242--Contract for Construction=
NEWS ITEM.--Bids will be received until Dec. 12 by the
Chairman of the Board of Public Works, North Bend,
Washington, for the construction of a solid concrete
bridge over the Snoqualmie River at North Bend; double
arch, with one pier in the river; span of arch 92
feet; width of bridge 50 feet. Plans may be had by
addressing the Chairman.
The McClaine Construction Co., of Spokane, Wash., send in a bid for
$25,000, guaranteeing to use Atlas Portland cement, crushed rock for the
coarse aggregate, and torpedo sand for the fine aggregate, the concrete
to be reinforced with the Kahn system of reinforcement as set forth in
the specifications. The company specify, further, that they shall be
paid extra for excavation, on the scale of 25¢ a yard for earth, 75¢ a
yard for loose rock and hard pan, and $1.00 a yard for solid rock. Write
the letter that they send.
=Exercise 243--Form Letters=
It frequently happens in business that you receive a number of letters
requiring practically the same answer. In such cases, the best plan is
to have one letter that is as good a letter of its kind as you can
write. Use that as an answer to all those to which it can be made to
apply. You may have to add a bit of information or change a word here
and there, but, practically, you are using the same form for all the
letters. When you have mastered the form, the answering of letters of
this class will be a simple matter. The letter accompanying a catalogue
may easily be a form. (See the second letter in Exercise 223.)
The danger, however, is that the use of form letters tends to make work
mechanical. When letters are different, they must receive different
replies. A form letter should never be used just because it is easy to
use when it does not really apply.
Mandel Bros., Chicago, Ill., announce their annual sale of silk
remnants. Make this a good advertisement that will reach several classes
of customers. Have in it as one item white wash silk of heavy quality,
36 inches wide, at 47 cents a yard.