No. 276.
Mr. Nelson to Mr. Fish
No. 342.]
Legation of the United States, Mexico, January 23, 1871.
(Received February 11.)
Sir: I inclose a copy of a communication, dated the 11th instant, from our consul at Minatitlan, informing me that Colonel J. J. Williams and his corps of engineers, assisted by all the federal and local authorities, broke ground on the 9th instant near Minatitlan for the Tehuantepec Railway, carriage-road, and telegraph line.
Your obedient servant,
THOMAS H. NELSON.