The Newtown bee., 1904-12-23

me for about S2 I got Sl6, or one ounce of gold. Heavy boots sell from
 one ounce up to S6O. These prices will suffice to show you the way the miners are obliged to part with their gold
 when they come In from the mines
 It is owing to there being so little veg etable food in the country many of the miners die of scurvy at the mines for the want of vegetable diet. A very
 little will prevent an attack of the scurvy ~and when one has once got it, nothing but vegetables will cure it.
 Milk is $1 a quart, eggs SIP dozen. A
 letter is good for nothing to describe
 this place and things in it as they actually exist here. In June last there were but six tents here, and now
 we boast of some 10 or 20 thousand in habitants either in tents or the most fragile buildings that were ever built for people to live in. They often blow down but never injure any one in
 them, the timber being about the size of quilt frames; it is perfectly harm less. They make miserable abOdeS for the winter. Many of them are with out stoves, that article costing from $50 to $500, and of course are out of need them. All buildings that are
 rented go by the month. Many stores
 that are covered with cloth rent for
 from S3O0 to 5000 month. If I had
 my barn here could rentit for 5000 month, and my house for from 5000 to $4O0o per month for boarding and
 lodging. l could have done we'll last
 fall to have stopped here and put up
 temporary buildings. 1 was aware of
 it at the time and did partly conclude
 to, but l had not seen the elephant. Those who came here with some cap ital and paid it out for building lots have made splendid fortunes. Many
 lots that in July and August were Money is lent here by the month at not less than 10 per cent per month.
 My earnings this week are something over $50 and my expenses perhaps $1 a day. This is making pile slower
 than I like but perhaps it is the best way to do it under the circumstances, for here 1 am suffering no expense of health whatever. We cook and eat whatever we like, have comfortable canvas building with stove in it, and
 located in one of the principal streets of the city, on the corner of K and
 4th streets. We have deal of rain,
 which makes working out rather un.
 certain. Our most fear now is, the OVcTllOWluS Ol Cuc OdCrducuUO FlVcE. It is said to be up to such tricks, not
 so much from the rain as from the l melting of the snow on the Sierra
 mountains. It is now about full banks, and one or two feet more rise would l inundate the place, it being very level prairie all about for great distance.
 It has been quite warm and muddy all through Christmas. Now, December 29, it is some cooler nights with some frost again. suppose it is now very
 cold weather with you and perhaps sleighing. Although it is very warm
 here, we have plenty of snow in sight
 on the mountains, where it is said tC be 20 feet deep. It is distinctly visible although from 80 to 100 miles off.
 AS to coming home soon, l hardly
 know what to tell you, for l have had,
 as said before, no letter to inform me ] whether my presence at home would
 be of such vital importance as to send
 me home this winter. You may be assured do not stay day here with out great reluctance and the day ] start for home, if that day ever comes, | will be happy one, 1 trust. l now bid you good night, it being after o'clock, and steamer leaves early fol l San Francisco that conveys this letter | to you. This from your wandering,
 ever devoted husband,-[Glover Flaw lav