| Description | Main parties were the landowners and the L.N.W.R. Coy,. but acting through agents, solicitors, and surveyors. Several valuations of the land that was required (cp.LLIG/357, 394, 402, 405); the chief difficulty was to persuade the Company's officers that land in the Red Wharf neighbourhood commanded high prices, and that it was expedient for them to remember that land used for railway tracks might well have been used for building purposes. At the same time, Lord Boston (see 358, 360) made a strong plea for a reasonableness, not to demand the "uttermost farthing", for fear that too exorbitant claims by the landowners might lead the promoters to abandon the project altogether, and set up a service of motor cars (this in October, 1903, would be rather a startling for Anglesey people). In 363 we have the argument for high claims - to provide a margin to get fair value for the land with the knowledge that whatever sum was asked the Company would claim a reduction. In February, 1904, comes the first suggestion that the promoters were likely to ask for powers to run Benllech (364). These, and similar negotiations, had all kinds of interesting facets; the inevitable additional strips the Coy. wanted, the questions of severances of old-time holdings, the new impetus given by these severances to the promotion of new exchanges by landowners, and the "accommodation works" (such as the provision of gates and paths) that the Company had to count upon prime essentials |