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Tin Mining: Copy of London office cable to Lagos stressing the importance of the Company retaining tin field transport, and giving instructions for furthering this on both routes, 16 Nov 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 710
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
16 Nov 1910
Tin Mining: Copy of a letter from T. Lees Field to the Company's Board about exchanging the options on the unsatisfactory Forum areas for Jarrawa (Jarawa) and Buri, 16 Nov 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 711
Enclosed in fol. 715.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
16 Nov 1910
Tin Mining: Copy of Company cable sent to [Archbold] Naraguta, requesting his cooperation over keeping transport in Company hands; and giving staff departure dates, 18 Nov 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 712
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
18 Nov 1910
Tin Mining: Copy of cable [from Archbold] Naraguta informing the Company of the government's terms for granting the Bisichi lease, 16 Nov 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 709
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
16 Nov 1910
Tin Mining: Unsigned note on the transport rates from Burutu to the tin fields, 23 Nov 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 723
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
23 Nov 1910
Tin Mining: Two letters from Fiddes to Scarbrough, proposing that he attend the Mines Association meeting to discuss arrangements for building the railway line, 1 and 8 Dec 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fols. 724-725
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
1 and 8 Dec 1910
Tin Mining: Unsigned note on 'through rates to tin fields', 8 Dec 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 726
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
8 Dec 1910
Tin Mining: Copy of cable from Lagos to London office about buying cotton on the Benue, and transport rates for Anglo-Continental's tin from Rigachikun to Forçados, 8 Dec 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 727
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
8 Dec 1910
Tin Mining: Letter from Trigge to Scarbrough, 10 Dec 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fols. 728-729
About:
the lack of practical support from the Mines Association member-companies for the Rigachikun-Lere Line
negotiations over the Gel areas
Tin Areas' successful boring.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
10 Dec 1910
Tin Mining: Copies of two cables [from Archbold?] Naraguta to London office, 12 Dec 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fols. 730-731
About:
trouble over the Curly Creek licence
the distribution of prospecting staff and the closure of Naraguta banks for lack of funds.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
12 Dec 1910
Tin Mining: Copy of a cable from Lagos to London office about shipments of oil, ivory, rubber, and tin, and asking for imported goods, 13 Dec 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 732
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
13 Dec 1910
Tin Mining: Copy of a cable [from Archbold] Naraguta referring the Company to a passage in his official diary, 13 Dec 1910
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 733
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
13 Dec 1910
Tin Mining: Three letters from Trigge to Scarbrough, 14, 16, 17, and 31 Dec 1910
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fols. 734-742
Comprises:
(fols. 735-739) enclosing copy of a cable sent to Naraguta (fol. 734) about taking over selected areas located by Waugh, allowing his Kano Syndicate a 20% interest; same arrangement agreed for the Jarawa property; rumours that Holts and Thomas Welsh ['Walsh'] are being taken over by Lever Bros., and Trigge's reasons for considering the rumour; Woermann Line's interest in Niger transport could...
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates:
14, 16, 17, and 31 Dec 1910
Tin Mining: Manuscript notes in Scarbrough's hand on transport rates for tin; also, on the difficulties of guaranteeing tonnage for the projected branch line, n.d. [1911]
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 743
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
n.d. [1911]
Tin Mining: Copy of a cable from Lagos to London Office about flake rubber purchases, 9 Jan 1911
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 759
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
9 Jan 1911
Tin Mining: Draft personal letter from Scarbrough to Lewis Harcourt, S/S Col., 15 Jan 1911
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fols. 760-761
About the urgent need to decide on the construction of the mines' branch line before climatic conditions delay work for a year; Scarbrough is against private enterprise, but backers are available if the government declines to build. See MSS. Afr. s. 98, fol. 258.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
15 Jan 1911
Tin Mining: Letter from Wallace, in Hampshire, to Scarbrough on his oil and soap works scheme and the possibility of its damaging Company trade; a site for smelting works at Baro; and the Bastard-Huddart transport plan, 8 Feb 1911
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 762
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
8 Feb 1911
Tin Mining: Initialled copy of a letter from Scarbrough to S.W. Carlton offering to assist, but not participate, in his tin smelting scheme, 4 and 9 Feb 1911
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fols. 763-765
Also, unsigned memorandum, dated 4 Feb, and related figures, on the subject.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
4 and 9 Feb 1911
Tin Mining: Unsigned memorandum on: 'The Niger Company's position in regard to Areas on Tinfields', 16 Feb 1911
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fol. 766
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
16 Feb 1911
Tin Mining: Initialled copy of a letter from Scarbrough to Fiddes explaining the dispute over the tin areas; also, an undated, unsigned related memorandum, 18 Mar 1911
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 89, fols. 767-769
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
18 Mar 1911