Letter from William King, 9 January 1890
President Woodruff and Council
Dear Brethren
I embrace this opportunity of reporting to you
our progress. We started up our grinding Dec 2nd
and ground off and on till Dec 31st but were delayed
a number of days by the vacum and boiler pumps
and found it necessary to take parts of them to
Honolulu for repairs having got them in good
repair we felt it necessary to test the Boiler. The
Boiler did not stand the test bursting one of the
tubes found them all to thin and unsafe, hence
in the midst of our grinding will now be obliged to wait
for a new boiler to be made which ^will^ delay us four weeks
longer we now having lost one week. We could get
the old boiler retubed in one week or ten days less time
provided the shell of the boiler proved upon exhamination
to be fit or strong enough, but it would take four or
five days more to find that out and then be left right
where we are now, and if considered fit it would be
an old boiler at last. So to make sure we are all
unanimous in having a new boiler we have so ordered
