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praR SIN: ] wonid have written 20 you sooner
but have been waiting TO learn something oi me
Country thas might give you all the lnloFnlatau'
| could as regards matters and things 20 $50 a.
You have no doubt read Of our Journey before lhiS
will have reached YOU, therefore will d@eli oqt 4
slnrt time upon that We had very rongn pne
OF it. can assure YOU, but thmh l,hPIofs'shiug
hsalth cons defably lfbeing Wet all day ana lneh
slpeninp III rain and mud all night, Will make
man tough 4hink We ought to re hard suhleels "
This time we arrived al The rsl settlement ~ taiS
country IN the first day Of September we theh pro
ceedcd 10 Tie city Of SaeTementaa which IS "a pew
city sprang mp this last Spring anu now eehlalls
eight or ten thousand inhabitants, When we nfst
arrived The Houses were plincfpalYs frame WofK
covered with cotton butthey are at ihIs time rapid
IL improving. 1t is about Two or two hundred ana
6fty miles tibta = San Francisco There u an I'M
mPnse alnoant of business carried on there, " uelS
near and easy IA access to all Of the principal mines
and is situated on the Sacramento River wheretcon-
siderable sized Vessels can getuP. Oar Company
dissolved at The above named place, which lnow
think was very wise plan as 40 not oeilevethey'
could possibly have worked 70 any advantage to-
gether item Joined one Of ten, consisting on Ans
Snilb Bnrwen B. F. Sewers, Barley, Murphy,
Mar,nadake Boley, MeAran and Pagan
i We have located ourselves on Weaver Greek, a.
bout sixty miles from Sacramento City, and have
within the Efst week or Two completed Yur Cabin "
for The wintef The rainy season commences Just
as We iinisfed it, but we pretty saienow, having
good comfortable quarters, and plenty q provisions
for the winter. We have not as yet done much at
Nlniniup n6r DO think we can do much before
Spring Its very uncertain businessz-yery much
like a Iottefy Sometimes man STRIKES good
streak OF lack and may make fOrtune in n little
while but do not believe chat the MAJORITY p per-
sons are making more than their expenses, hope
II may slTks,a breeze and make large haul, Her
can assure5you thai il is a very hard life ID lead
therefore | wish to get back as soon as make a
pretty good pile Provisions have raised u dou7
bic what they were when we first atriSedi FlPur =
selling at S32 per Dbl. Mess Pork $50 per Nd. and
every hag else in proportion $50 that you will peri
ceye that ii costs something 10 live in this country
Rents arc most enormously high. Very common
Store Houses rent for from six hundred TO thou
and dollars a month. Town lots also are very high
lin fact DO not believe they can get any higher
This country was represented TO be great agri1
cultural Country perhaps some portions may be-
but doubt it very much We passed through a
I large portion Of the Sacramento Valley, which II
said 10 be about the best land, and il looked very
barren, bnlis was then the dfy season SINCE the
rain has commenced | have not seen it.
BY next spring Think will be able 10 give you a
more full description, il Hye AT present am uot
well prepared.
y There are a great many persor.s here who have
become discouraged and are returning home, EheTe1
different accounts from this county John 3n aha
Henry Moore i. G. Bradley, John Gainhart, Smith
Crane and Monroe Manning, haae built CABIN
together, at Weayervle about or 10 miles below
US on the same Greek Kelly and great rnanyi
more OF our old company are also there The Ion
cation We haze is first rate regards Climate
So far it has been mild almost as mild as surb1neI
IN the States We also have plenty of game 'such
as Deer Grizzly Bear, Pariridges SC. WE have
been feastngson Venison for sometime Mr. (AisH
quilh has improved more than any one know Of N
You would scarcely believe what a change has tai
ken place'in. him. He can now endure almost All
much hardship as any one. in fact | believe bis
health is entirely restored |. ~ll
will writa again when The rainy season is bver II
The roads NEW are almost impasslhle and win br1
entirely so before long therefore II cannot get let
terto the Ofite IN
Write and direct yohr letter to Sacremento d,itv
california Ny bestfesPtcts TO all my old friends
in Jefferson Yours 81 u
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