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4 fever;
aud
not only
to inserease the price of good
native mechanie's wa
in the tunnel.
it has
wage
type of a malarial intermittent,
at others
of a
A
ewear, remuittent forme,
not bour possible to retain for any bugth
of line the services
of the
cane workmen.
With bret
for venturesome exer
exceptione,
hele
Sown vot cared to reengage after having
third
had the fever for the second or time, and the boring operations have therefore had to be conducted under the
disadvantage of contimal relays of -- new and untrained mechanics who
instance have had to be
management
in every laught the handling and in of the drilling-machine and who have.
been sooner or
later
compelled by
the
fever, to abandon the work, generally
at a trine when their experience
to make them
just beginning to
If
This state
of thing
useful.
has tended
works, but has had a disheartening effect
on
the higher employés,
them
and has
disinclined to continue their connexion
with the work under at rates
of"
remuneration sonicwhat more
commensurate with the risks to health
called on to undergo.
they
5.
Are
The two principal officers..
supervising under my
the tunnist
the constrication of the directions, Atz Orange,
AZE
the Resident Engineer, aud M1⁄21⁄2 Cook, the Superintending Foreman of miners I am able to speak in the highest terius of the officitury of three tive officers, who have shown from the beginning,
the:
most unvarying devotion to their work under the trying circumstances eft;
Pt forth
in
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