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EXCUSE FOR SCARCITY OF REPORTS. 81
the season. How a railway would open up the
country! What a necessity it is ! It would increase
the traffic; traders would then venture to settle on
the place; other industries would spring up in all
directions; and the Wynaad, from being a desolate
and thinly inhabited, and, except for coffee, an
unproductive district, would rapidly develop into
one of the busiest centres of trade in the whole
peninsula. We may live to see accomplished here
changes such as, within the memory of the present
generation, have been witnessed in California and
Australia.
In
conclusion, I must refer to the unreasonable eagerness which is often
displayed for frequent information from the mines. It is not unnatural
that those who are interested in the industry should become impatient
when either no report whatever, or only very meagre paragraphs in the
mining journals, reach them. But it must not be supposed that, because
there is nothing fresh to say, the work is slackened or suspended. At
the present stage of operations all that can be reported is that such
levels, or roads, have advanced so many feet, or such outcrops have
been tried and found auriferous. We are now in the most uninteresting
phase of mining, and cannot expect to be striking new reefs every week.
Nevertheless, whilst a manager may have but little to report that proprietors would care to hear,
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