MEMORANDA TO YLM. AIKMAH FOR THE COMMITTEE ON AUDIT AND FINANCE RESPECTING THE D. M. SHREVE AFFAIRS. (SUPPLEMENTING MEMONANDA SUPPLIED TUESDAY, August 33,1923).
The printing account of :.he 10,000 booklets of Johnson the printer i3 stated over the phone to be about 0580.00. Understand this order was given through nr. gred p. Johnston. By way of comparison of costs, 10,000 historical booklets, copy herewith, were printed under my direction in December,1931, for §151.50. Additionally, estimates secured today for printing 10,000 section maps according to the form and principles agreed upon before I went East will oost 090.00 to 0100.00. The responsibility for this account with Johnson the printer is not clear. The agreement appears that the OST and Shreve jointly wore to pay for this printing. Shreve was to supe vise the printing work. The order was given I believe through pr.
B. Johnston, and the npdennt.at the printing office appears to be charged to the 03T. In "order to figure the damages, the following an approximation:
If Shreve pays no part of the Johnson printing account,.there i 0580.00 there due. Since ray return to San Antonio, I have refused to receive these bocks, but the printer today on the phone says.that Dr. Fred B. Johnston has ordered them sent out and that some nave already gone.
If new section maps are gotten out according to the principles intended and based upon these figures secured today tnsre will be a cost of, say about 0335.00 for printing tne sections San Antonio to Orange and San Antonio to El Paso.
TiiQSjpost of making the two map plates will probably be 030.00.
I have rib" ?h format Ion about the accounts for the plates in the present book.
Before new section maps can be intelligently made up end printed, it would be necessary for some one to go over the route from El Paso to Orange o.nd recheck everything. Thcr can be no confidence placed in any of the material now in hand in this office. This receh.oki.ng would oost from 0300.00 to 0400.00,for about 3500 miles of auto travel would be involved in addition to the services of a man.
Shrove was also required to mafek. the highway where'not marked.
"My observation of his work between Oftifge and Beaumont shows it must be done over if the credit and standing of the organ!•sation is to be maintained. Reports I have from the west check up with my observations in the Orange-Beaument section. It is difficult even to approximate the costs involved in correcting the deranges from this improper marking. A unit of calculation is about 01.50 per mile. Largely gue-sing, but basing the guess on such information as I have, the remarking to bring the marking to the standards ordered could easily reach 0500.00, for a range of about 1000 miles of highway is involved.
If the remarking and rechecking of this additional material could be placed in the hands of one man, costs would be lessened materially, tt the issuance of these maps would be delayed; and inasmuch as the first collections and promises on this map work began last March and the people are writing and complaining, it seems important to consider means for get ting these seotlons maps out.