The development of the West

Henry spent the next two weeks organizing and guiding the next steps for the development of the West. He intended to focus the short-term efforts and investments only on Mehis, building a central city where iron would be mined, stored, and then shipped to the capital to be processed. In the long term, Mehis would also become a distribution center, where all the iron mined in the West would be concentrated. Mehis was going to become a specialized area.

"For the next six months, I want you to open six more veins of Cold Iron in the surrounding mountains" - Henry said, his fingers tracing over a spread-open map of the cit - "And you need to speed up the construction of the residential area and new storage facilities. We can't have the new people sleeping in the blistering cold."