File No. 812.63/129.
Special Agent Carothers to the Secretary of State.
Returned from Chihuahua last evening. Secured from Escudero in writing a statement that the period of 120 days will commence to count from the date of publication of regulations of mining decree, and that the regulations will not be published until the latter part of August. This will effectively suspend decree until the end of the year. I have spoken to mining committee and other miners and they are satisfied, as they believe many things may happen between now and the end of the year. I delivered Escudero’s communication to the secretary of the mining committee, as it was addressed to them. It will be published in the first issue of the Official Gazette.