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Show ROAD PRESIDENT I SEES BANKERS 1 Impending Obligations of Na- J tional Railways of Mexico fl Subject of Discussion. i - New York, March 14. E. N. Brown, i president of the National Railways i of Mexico, arrived In New York today 1 to confer with a group of international internation-al bankers regarding the road's im- ' pending obligations. On April 1 the semi-annual interest : i on $51,000,000 of the company's 4 per '. cent general mortgage bonds, guaranteed guar-anteed by the Mexican government, , will mature. The government advanced advanc-ed a part of the funds required for last October's payment, but up to' this time has given no intimation of what it intends to do respecting the April interest. . Mr. Brown will also make known to the bankers the condition of "the ; 1 Mexican railway system at thte time. , Officials of the road say that the situation sit-uation has improved and that about 6o per cent of mileage is being oper- 2 ; ated against little more than 50 per ' ; cent early in the year. This is re- fleeted in gross earnings, thoBe for February being relatively good. -oo |