Mike,
Go play golf!
That Dallas Estate acquistion mode in June 1910 started with an off hand comment from TePaul that MCC was apparently considering it early (but we got his cliff notes version and haven't seen what letter or note he was referring to) Later on, he wasn't so sure. I still believe that it was acquired by HDC simply in a general desire to both have enough land for suitable developent and/or just have as much control of the area as possible for their fine homes. How it got put over into golf, I don't know, but as you know, I disagree with you on whether the sliver of land along Ardmore near 2 green was originally wide enough for two holes. I doubt it.
And yes, it is and was even moreso standard practice to refer to attachements. Not only that, but proper form is to refer to it as a COPY of an attachment if it is in fact a copy. Those guys were pretty formal back in those days, much moreso than now when I send out emails referring to an attachement, and then send another with the attachement because I forgot to send it originally....D'oh!
As I mentioned, its also standard practice to provide reports on events sometime current to those events happening. Thus, on April 11, 1911, the Leslie report is more likely to report on stuff happening in March and April 1911, not to routings done back in June 1910, given there were several interim reports on various things, including buying some land. And, none of those reports mentioned "to accomodate our current routing."
BTW, I took another look at your post on the "little bit of ground north of Ardmore" comment. I think you might be right, but in reality, they probably needed both sides to fit in their holes 1 and 10-13. I am not sure when the idea came for both. Certainly they were planning on the RR land early so you might be right. But, that would mean that they were already reconfiguring the road (very possible) in their March and April routings but still struggling with holes 13-18 as Francis tells us.
I can imagine five routings just to figure out how to best use the Quarry. Not hard to figure they started with 18 on their east boundary and started working from there, although in one routing it was probably no 14! But, they still had the problem of too much width and not enough length for five holes and Francis was the one who apparently hit on widening the triangle to extend two longer holes up there.
I don't know but for me it all seems to fit.
BTW, not to harp on this road width thing, but I noticed that the ROW for Ardmore, College and even Turnbridge Roads were substantially wider than what was proposed for GHR. At the time, all were pretty much country roads. I wonder how HDC figured they could get away with a less than standard ROW?
BTW 2 - I do know the difference between "dedicated" and "deeded" roads. The landowners actually keep title to their half of the land under the ROW, but its given to the city/county/state to maintain after construction. Again, all of that is very typical and common. Having very narrow ROW even for residential roads is not, unless they were originally intended to remain a private road of the development. It would be interesting to know what the records said about that.
Now, the only questions to me are what planet the aliens who abducted CBM are from, and should this course be credited to Joeseph Burbeck?