Bill Barlow's Budget

A few weeks since Major E. A. Burke, proprietor of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, State Treasurer of Louisiana and late Director General of the World's Exposition, accepted an invitation from President Bogran, of Spanish Honduras, to pay him a visit. Major Burke shaped his business affairs so as to be able to pass three or four months in Central America. Information has now been received by steamer that Bogran has granted to Major Burke a concession of a tract of land twenty miles square, on a part of which is a promising gold mine, while the rest of the land is heavily timbered with mahogany and other valuable woods.