Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-08-31
CASEY JONES WRITES
 FROM "OVER THERE"

ANS"s AAoAS ASSSAFS0 sSh A4AS~A SSSA6 letter this week from "Casey" Jones, now in France.
 Just a few lines to follow up the "Safe Arrival" card that you have no doubt received before this, and in case you didn't get it, these few mental efforts will inform you that yours truly has arrived safely overseas.
 The trip was a dandy, the weather was fine and nothing of Heinie both cred us. We sighted land, along in the afternoon, about three weeks ago, and since then l have slept in box cars, in the rain, standing up, leaning against the walls and on few occa- sions laying down. We arrived in our billets several days ago and our out fit drew one of the best in town, that is for a billetl' It is an old building and has seen many hard winters. I don't think it was built for the sum- mer weather that we are having now as it is rather warm and we have our tents up in the back yard. It is con- sidered joke among us that we clean ed up the house from stem to stern and then went to living in the back yard. ..
 am informed that we are close to a very busy part of the front and from the reports that drift back from the line, the boys are showing the Fritz ies a little touch of high life, how ever you probably know more about the war than I do so I, wont try to tell yd uanything about it, as could- mt go very far anyway. We can hear the big guns tearing it off nearly all the time and the sky is full of aero planes all the time. They are as com- mon as birds to us now. At one time last evening I counted fifty-six at one time. | We have had hard time of it on the eat question, not that we didn't have plenty, but the variety has been rather slimi I never ate so much .orned beef in my life and if there is that gives us steaks and things like that, he is unknown in this country However, we are slowly getting ac- quainted and we are starting our own mess today and we expect something better from now on.
 We have small river close to town and I surprised my system by taking a bath yesterday, the first good one l have had since I left the States. guess we will move again soon, as up to dates every time we have stopped long enough for bath, we have moved again the next day, but as long as our moves take us closer to the front, I wont ever kick about nov ing.
 The day we arrived at our rest camp after disembarking from the trans port l met Paul Morton. We had a chat ever old times, that lasted until the small wee hours. , He has been pretty sick and is rather dissatisfied with the outfit he is in. He told me that Slim Mulrein is in China and that Paul Hines is here in France some place. I also heard that liar beck is here somewhere.
 I am beginning to polly VOC a little bit, but my worst trouble is getting the French and Spanish mixed up and part of the time cant understand mE- self.
 We are allowed beer and light wines over here, but if you ever got to drink any of this red ink they have over here, you would understand why they let us have it. A man would have to drink a barrell of it to get kick and God only knows how much he would have to drink to get swacked. I took on a little of it, but no more for Casey.
 I don't know when we will ever get our mail again, but we are bound to get it sometime so don't be backward about writing and send me "Miner". You will have to send it first class mail, as we don't get any second-class and if you see Hubert Smith tell him to cut Frederickson's and my paper out and he can send the one that has been coming to me to Bill Esser, if he cares to. We are both very much in debt to Sniithie and we sure appre- ciate his sending the paper, but we cant get it any more so there is no use of wasting the paper. We'll Newt I will have to cut this out for time. Dort fail to write and give me all the politics. am dead anxious to hear how you come out and you can rest assured that one bird in this mans army is pulling for you. Go get lem old man and don't forget Your old pal
 CASEY
 Address: Corp. Walter P. Jones, Headquarters, 27th Engineers, A. E.. F.
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