| Description | This time between Mr Nicholls Jones the agent and the Northern Mercantile Corporation Ltd. of Manchester, more official in character but less satisfactory in content. LLIG/461 is the actual counterpart of the take-note granted by Lord Boston on 15 August, 1906; £15 a year rent; royalty, 16th; compensation at the rate of £40 per statute acre for land rendered permanently useless for grazing, etc.; damages also for injury to corn and live stock.
Difficulties with paying rent from the beginning - the company seem to have left the local enterprise at the mercy of Mr Spargo (beloved name in all copper mining enterprises) and to excuse their own lack of interest and payments by obsession with adventures in foreign lands. LLIG/470 is a map. |