I find that on Aug. 11th I wrote to Mr Anderson (lessee of the mine), and on the same day to the Admiralty requesting authority to employ a Greenwich Assistant, and requesting £100 for part payment of expenses.

" The enterprise of a lessee at that time, and in that locality, was illustrated by his ability to supply his plantation with mules.

In 1864 there were thirty colored lessees near Milliken's Bend, and about the same number at Helena.

At the same time many lessees in our vicinity were unable to commence operations, owing to their inability to obtain working stock.