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nsive parties might have been treated a little less shabbily. Such high handed proceed- ings should be frowned down, and Mr. Black’s assumed responsibility should be enquired into. J. H. Bragaw, the merchant miner of Georgetown, spent several days in the me- tropolis this week. A special dispatch to the Globe Democrat, from the City of Mexico, December 16, states that the secretary of communications and public works has declared the contract entered into with John W. Young, of Utah, for the construc- tion of a railroad from Chihuahua to the Sierra Madre, forfeited for the non compliance with its stipulation. The $5000 in bonds deposited have also been forfeited. This will prove a damper upon the pro- posed road from Doming through the heart of the Sierra Madre country, but other parties may take hold and push the work to completion.