File No. 812.6363/209

Special Agent Silliman to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Oil pipe line Tuxpam district. Further information is contained in following telegram received to-day from Secretary of Fomento, dated Mexico, the twenty-sixth:

The projected oil pipe line will be for the object of transporting oil for the public as a common carrier being subject to general rules to guarantee the interests of all producers whatever may be their nationality, said oil pipe line will begin at Tampasas Ozuluama but as the final chart has not been presented I cannot say over what lands the line will run. The person who is soliciting the concession is Frank L. Sample of New York, and the Mexican Government is not interested in it any way whatever. Pastor Rouaix

Silliman