srownft ARMS COMPANY, °) ST. LOUIS, MO. : € Mr. b&b. G Bennett, First Security Corpe, Ogden, Utah, Dear Mr. Bennett: Schade & Company from the Customs Office at Ottawa, Canada, regarding preferential tariff on guns shipped into Canada, whether via the United States or direct from Belgium to Canadian ports. In view of the material saving on direct Belgian-Canadian shipments,we might find it advis-._ able to give this matter careful thought, in the event we go after Canadian business, At the outset, and until business justified, we could make shipments from here into Canada as originally planned and change as our volume of business justified, We could not afford to carry a representative stock in Canada unless a satisfactory volume was obtained and, even though a considerable saving in tariff could be effected, we might even find it best to handle from St. Louis, at the outset at least, a es gincerfly, J | < iy a a y / —_ af f