We are waiting anxiously and interested-Thave heard the question raised. There is rear—or at least begun soon. "Will it pay? ly the result of the boring for an artesian no good reason why it should not, if properly well in the French Settlement, which is to conducted. But there is where the trouble be made this Spring. Good water is the comes, A fact which recently came to my eatest need of this Settlement, and it is to knowledge of how matters are run on the hoped that this experiment will be a other road will illustrate the point. A success. There are contingencies for which small official came on the train, and pre-no foresight can provide, such as the possi sented a ticket—or 2 pass—for himself and lity of getting no water, of brackish water, four servants, These may have all been or of striking oil instead of water. May paid for: Ido not know. But in addi-none of these misfortunes be the lot of this tion, there had been written on one end, venture! "also two men." And further, there were a
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