Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-02-08
GEORGE P. MORGAN
 WRITES FROM FRANCE

George P. Morgan writes from St. Divzier, France, to K. w. Wilde:
 Received your letter of November 18th this morning and as always, glad to hear from you. Christmas treated me pretty good this year, when I arrived on duty this morning found ten letters waiting for me, yours one of the bunch. Nothing makes you feel better in France than a letter from the States and felt pretty good on receipt of the bunch this morning.
 Sorry to hear that the "flu" is so bad in Kingman and Mohave County, and hope by this time 1t has been cleaned up for good. Also sur prised and sorry to learn, of the death of Lon Teale and Harry Will Hams, they must have kicked off pretty sudden.
 Before I go any farther, want to ask you to excuse mistakes; am writ ing on a French typewriter and have about half candle power light to
 Was also pleased to learn that some of the prospects in Mohave County are looking better and believe in the near future the mines will be back to the same old swing and better. This time next year the D. P. & w. should be pull ing all she will stand. Anyway we hope SO.
 Since Bill quit his job over in Germany and the Yanks and allies ran his mob out of France and Bel gium, we are having it pretty quiet. Don't even have an air raid any more to make it interesting and times goes much slower. All we think of now is "when do we go home," and everybody is anxiously awaiting orders to proceed to port of embarkation. Have no idea when I will be sent back but as our work at this station seems to be drawing to a close, the troops being moved either forward into Germany in the
 I'd Army se 6acE, % we are not working very hard at the present I am with the advance Regulating Station of the First Army, as I be- ieve, wrote you before.
 Weather here pretty cold with a little snow last night, and some rain today. The worst part of the storms in this country is the mud and we have plenty of that. Stepped into a puddle of it up to my knees last night. If we only had some of that Arizona sand to mix with it-it would be o. K.
 Had a pretty good Christmas din ner today, pork for turkey, but as the cooks ran out of wood we had a cold lunch tonight, consisting of "Gold Fish" j(canned salmon) and cold spuds.
 Hope you all are spending a Merry Christmas and that next Christmas will find all of us here in France, back in the good old U. s. A. France may be alright for the frogs" but the Tanks are looking forward to that trip across the puddle and look at the Goddess of Liberty, but if the said lady wants to take a sec ond look at me she will have to turn around as me for the fastest train to the good old West.
 My company is still on detached service, part of them in France some in Belgium, some in Germany and don't know where some of them are. Am still attached to the Regulating Station and may go back with them, or may have to wait until the com pany is ordered together again for the return trip to the States.
 Almost forgot to tell you about my furlough. Left here the 18th, with bunch of twenty-five men for Grenoble on leave. Arrived there midnight the 14th and we were quartered at the best hotels in town, I was luckily enough to draw the best. This town is situated not far from the Swiss border and in the Alps and