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cost of the line with it would certainly not exceed
£500,000.
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5.
The capital value of the saving
in working expenses including maintenance by the adoption
of the East low level route instead of the East high level
route is worked out by Mr. Bruce to be $919,800 and by the
adoption of the East low level route instead of the West
route to be $1,716,084.
6.
I am disposed to think that Mr.
Bruce's estimate of time, viz.:- 24 years for the construc-
-tion of the line by the East low level route is low and
that the estimate of 3 years for the piercing of the tun-
confiteutval -nel, suggested in paragraph 4 of my Despatch of the 12th.
January, is a safer one to adopt.
7.
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Mr. Bruce does not compare the
time taken in running along the East low level and West
routes but his difference of 13.06 miles between the
lengths of the two lines reduced to their equivalent
lengths of straight-level line confirms the saving report-
+
-ed in paragraph 10 of my Despatch of January 11th. of
half an hour by the adoption of the former route.
8.
Mr. Bruce for the reasons he
gives
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