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1871-05-30 Page 2
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withe the drouth & will be moderately light corn looks fair but small there is no news of importance times are prety dull the iron furnice companies Stlouis & Carondelet are preparing to build a rail road to Cairo will pass through the coal fields west and probably through Sparta the are engaged now in obtaining the right of way they co says they will have the road completed by the first of January this far as they cant get suficient to cary on their furnaces they have 300 hands at work on the Chester Tamarou road there is a road 7 miles north of this the stlouis & dubois the hack makes 2
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withe the drouth & will be moderately light corn looks fair but small there is no news of importance times are prety dull the iron furnice companies Stlouis & Carondelet are preparing to build a rail road to Cairo will pass through the coal fields west and probably through Sparta the are engaged now in obtaining the right of way they co says they will have the road completed by the first of January this far as they cant get suficient to cary on their furnaces they have 300 hands at work on the Chester Tamarou road there is a road 7 miles north of this the stlouis & dubois the hack makes 2
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