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opinion, heretofore expressed, that the experiment will be attended with success, if prosecuted 
to the depth then contemplated by the Department. 
More detailed information regarding the late operations will be found in the report from the 
office connected with these explorations. 
The well has been left in such condition that the boring may be continued from the point 
where it ceased, should future appropriations admit the resumption of the work. 
The important results that may attend the solution of this question, not only in connexion 
with the construction of a railroad, but also in the development of the resources which the 
country may contain, have been already noticed in previous reports from this Department. 
The topographical surveys carried on in connexion with this work have improved the location 
of that portion of the railroad route near the thirty-second parallel east of the Rio G-rande. 
