Another matter that requires some ex planation is the delay that has taken place in-the completion of the railway and the mill, It will be within your recollection that 8 year ago the-directors led the sharehold-era to hope that the railway would be completed about last September, and that they would be at work at the end of the year. Still, the month of February in another year haa come round, and we have to ask Your patience for a little longer. The first Gisappointment that _we met with was the continual illness of Mr. Thompson, who, you will remember, necompa to the mine on my previous trip, and he was then appointed consulting adviser. Well, gentlaen, awaiting Me. Thompson's, retura to convalescence, the board thought that your property would bein ante bands under it. Barrell, who possessed such a large interest in the undertaking, and claimed the superintendence of the mine, according to his agreement, until a suitable successor was obtained,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.