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the most reliable information they have been pushing on North this past winter.

I was assigned to duty here as Quarter-Master, and have acted in that capacity since the first of November. I will leave for the North in three weeks under orders of Major Conway, Superintendent &c Construction of W. U. Tel. Cos. Line in British Columbia.

Of the Western Union Telegraph only four hundred miles have been constructed. But it is confidently believed, that fifteen hundred miles will be completed by next December. Every effort will be made to secure this result.

I have done very little for Natural History as yet, but I will have an excellent opportunity when the