Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-12-07

letter under date of October 19.
 5 Somewhere in mu ) October 19, 191 2 Messers; Hart, Ruggles,
 K Williams and Teale.
 oo Gentlemen:-
 9 1 have been in the notion of writ : ing few lines to each of you, an, '. when ] got the last letter from King 0 man and the copy of the Miner Min 3 eral Wealth, like the nigger that fel 6 the hand grenade swelling in his hanC 1 1 couldn't hold it any longer, so here goes nothing:
 , First-I suppose 1 should put dowr the marrow escapes from death, how many hours have worn my gas mask and how many notches 1 have in the old shooting iron, but I will not bore 1 you with past history with me now . Ahem.
 Second-I expect you would be in terested in just how the General and myself, expect to bring the Germans to an unconditional surrender, but as
 that is still military secret I will
 have to pass it over for this time.
 Third--The weather-Now we have
 something that we can write about
 without fear of the censor regulations,
 the weather is our old standby and
 am using it for the principal topic of
 all my letters, to begin with we hav-
 mt had any weather lately, this darn
 ed country is just getting over a de-
 luge of weather and the present lack
 of weather is being appreciated by all
 concerned ,lately since the weather
 quit weathering we have had MUD,
 Mud IS alright in it's place but we all
 have objections to mud out of it's place
 and have had mud in my blankets,
 mud on my clothes, mud in my mess
 kilt, and to be frank I have had all
 the mud l need for awhile but now
 that the weather has quit we are all
 looking forward to dry spell. Now
 dry in France don't mean the same as
 1t does in Arizona so don't misunder- stand my remarks.
 We have a dandy billet now, the
 best we have had since we landed in
 France, there are a few shrapnel | holes in the roof, but we have out managed the rain and by saving the empty cans from the kitchen and stor- ing them in the attic, we are able to keep the lower floors of the house dry. We have one room that has a fire place, and we have been forum ate enough to get wood enough to keep the fire burning, in the evenings after supper, the big solo game starts, and with the fire place and the mizar- is, it takes my thoughts back to the club and the good old games we used to have there.
 When we first moved into this ', town, Fritzie was throwing shells in { to it. One hit on the front of this i house. It was about the size of a i mine water bailer, and there was some f great high tailing going around here, I one man was just in the act of open C ing jackpot, and he and his three aces hit the dugout at the same time, r and we got pretty good dose of Kul- g ;ur for few days, and then as us- f lal the doughboys started north and aaven't stopped yet. We are now so a :ar behind the lines, that we can just [ 'aintly hear the roar of the big fel- ows, and we are beginning to be f. .areless with our lights, which is 2 ign that we are getting back in the t 5. o. s. / .
 l was up to one of the companies n he other day, saw Bennott, and lot n If the other cats, Wild Bill Minihan vas out hunting for souvenirs, and got ' lis eyebrows singed off, they say it c S impossible to get him fifty feet h way from camp now, the boys built W ] bridge under shell fire which is some n title job itself. We have had some r asualties but on the whole, and con- K idering the exposure the boys were Q n, l guess we are fortunate that there fl rere not more. f
 Billie Esser is with Company D, and while they are now on this side I ,i avn't had chance to see him yet. 9 a
 l have dandy Helmet to send you, " " ut will have to wait until I get a y nance to mail it, the saw tooth bay net is out of the question, as thare no way to get one out of the ountry. \
 Living conditions for the soldiers \ re as good and in some cases better lan they were in the states, we get 5 good or better food and we have Bull Durham" issued, and when the 'aving for sweets gets too strong we m usually find Salvation Army or SC . M. c. A. where we can spend our hs francs" which by the way, am now te 1t of. ' It is getting colder here all the Fl me, and along toward the mystic SC 'ur l often wish for another blanket, 1t its my own fault, I put on the |. inter clothes too soon. And now I MI n thinking about putting on some i ore, or at least another. suit of un- ,rwear.
 One thing we do lack, and that is thing facilities. We have no wa r in the town, and have to pack all d,. IT water some distance, however I ~. % anaged to get>a bath this fall and ;,,
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