David,
Well, about 80% of your posts call some document or others logic "nonsensical", and you did it again above. If it isn't nonsenical, its a conspiracy by TePaul to deny you the truth. If I were so out of touch with the rest of humanity that I considered that much nonsensical, I would begin to consider if I was the one being nonsensical.
A primary source document says what it says. It may have some "nonsensical" grammar in your eyes, but there is no record of MCC having an English teacher come in to vet their meeting minutes. They are what they are. I have been told by you that I don't understand the meaning of the simple words "your work". I have been told by Tom Mac that I don't know what a blueprint is, despite working with them for over 30 years. You have both told me and others what we just don't understand how things were back in the day, even though you and I have both lived the same number of days in the year 1910-1912 - ZERO!
Geez. Are you know telling me that I am incapable of understanding such straightforward words as "we laid out many plans, went to NGLA, came back, did five more plans, and then had CBM come over for a final look, and then we approved the routing about two weeks later?" Those words are pretty straightforward, are they not? Oh no, of course not. We need the super secret David M decoder ring to know exactly what they mean.
I think I understand what a source document is. The April 19 minutes are one. All the other opinions offered here, mine included, are less likely to be fact and more likely to be opinion than what is said in that document. Oh yeah, we can't trust that because TePaul, the devil himself, has posted it. Well of course, because nothing is as it seems and everyone is against you.
I stand by my reasoning in saying that the MCC minutes that we do have, sans interpretations by any of us, probably tell us the most about how MCC was created over other documents, theories, etc. As always, just my humble opinion.
Of course, I am now debating whether it was the Beatles or the Rollling Stones who designed MCC.......