The Newtown bee., 1904-12-23
me for about S2 l got sl6, or one ounce of gold. Heavy boots sell from
 one ounce up to $6O. These prices will

me lOf dUt)uU oA l SOu olO, UT Ouc ounce of gold. Heavy boots sell from one ounce up to S6O. These prices will suffice to show you the way the miners when they come m 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 $l 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 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
 the reach of many who very much
 need them. All buildings that are rented go by the month. Many stores that are covered with cloth rent for from 8300 tO 5000 a month. If l had a month, and my house for from 5000 to S4OOO 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 bought for S1OO are now worth $5OOO. 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 S1 a day. This is making a pile slower than l like but perhaps it is the best | way to doit under the circumstances, for here am suffering no expense of
 health whatever. We cook and eat whatever we like, have a comfortable l canvas building with stove in it, and
 located in one of the principal streets
 of tho city, on the corner of K and
 4th streets. We have a deal of rain,
 which makes working out rather un-
 certain. Our most fear now is, the l Overtlowing of the Sacramento river. AO ID oc1lO Uo OC u ouS1 AlOhot hoO
 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
 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. I 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 to | be 20 feet deep. It is distinctly visible although from 80 to 100 miles off.
 As to coming home soon, I hardly
 know what to tell you, for have had,
 as said before, no letter to inform me ! whether my presence at home would l 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 l
 start for home, if that day ever comes,
 will be happy one, 1 trust. 1 now | bid you good night, it being after l o'clock, and a steamer leaves early for
 San Francisco that conveys this letter
 to you. This from your wandering,
 ever devoted husband, ,-[Glover Haw- lev