The same memorialist reports that hither-the copper in Yunnan has been cast in irregular blocks, which gave facilities for steriling and peculation. He has therefore instructed the public company working the uuinies in future to make blocks of a certain form and stamped with the date, their weight, and the name of the mine. This will cause a month or two's delay. _Moreover many of the workmen are ill with fever, which prevents their working. Also, the ore at present reached is not rich, and the furnaces are not yet in perfect working order, It has taken two million pounds of ore to make a hundred thousand pounds of copper. Under these circumstances it will be only possible to get five hundred thousand pounds during the present year.
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