Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-04-03

you for I haven't written you in month--no use there was no mail ser vice."
 The second letter was dated fev days later at Vladivostok:
 Your several letters met me her'
 when l arrived yesterday morning, anc
 they were welcome l can tell you.
 am so glad to know that you are al
 well at home, and that now I am with.
 in few weeks mail service to you.
 We were on the car, and in fact are
 still on the car, for 33 days en route
 between 1rkutsk and Vladivostok. Or
 dlnarily it takes but a week but we
 had to travel thru dangerous country
 and then everyone was trying to get
 out at the same time, and the supply
 of engines was limited. When we got
 down to Verkhne Udinsk we were in-
 corporated as part of the U. S. Army
 and went out as echelon Mo- 85-next
 to the last which was Colonel Mor-
 rows.
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 station named Petrofski Zavod the
 thermometer registered 62 below Far
 enheit. Somehow one does not feel
 this kind of cold for it is dry, and so
 long as there is no wind the extreme
 cold acts as a stimulant. You want to
 walk fast and your breath looks like
 the exhaust from a steam engine, and
 you may freeze an ear or nose before
 you know it, but as far as feeling any discomfort there isn't any. I have
 minded the cold here in Vladivostok
 these past 2 days more than any of
 the severe weather in the interior. And the sun is melting the snow and the ice is beginning to break up-but there is the element of dampness in the air and it chills to the bone. Also, take this type of cold and mix lit
 tie wind with it and you have what reminds one of the winter in the East. Regular Pennsylvania weather, and there isn't anything worse than that which I have encountered
 We shall live on the car few days more and then go up into the barracks until it is decided what we are going to do or rather when we are going home. We may be here another month or two, but by that time the whole Red Cross will have moved out of Siberia. Our work is about com pleted and we have done tremendous work considering the difficulties we have been up against and it is worth while to have been a factor in the tremendous undertaking. Far from perfect but in country torn by civil war any good that is done is some help, and thousands have felt the kindly influence of the Red Cross.
 The night before we arrived in Vladivostok-thatl long looked for goal on our jouney-all the men in my car went wild. One of them had to walk miles to escape from the Bolsheviks which were only short distance be- hind him, and the others like myself had been locked up in Irkutsk during the siege, and the restraint of the long trip gave way to regular bedlam. We turned on the photograph and got tin utensils from the kitchen and beat ing them like lot of kids, and march ed up and down the gangway of the car. The cars I should explain are like our compartment cars of the Pull man type and have rooms or coupes' as they are called, and each room ac- comodated two to four There were about 8 of us and if anyone could hear us they would have sworn there were 800. Men after all are only grown up boys, and it pays to let off steam after tough time ot It such as we had. Now we are resting J and taking life easy. Vladivostok IS in the hands of the Social Revolution ists and everything is quiet. Our Army is still here and we have two battleships. I went over to the Flag ship to see one of my old shipmates the other day whom I had not seen Tn 22 years. He was on the Alliance with me and we had great time talking over old times. l am com to feel that the years are climbing rather high when l can talk of 22 years ago-especially when 1t marks time when was in active work in my profession. :,
 It seems a settled fact that the All ies are going to get out of Slberla' and leave them settle their own ditfl- I .ulties. It is the rational thing to do. And Russia with all her faults is des- 5 ined to be a great nation. She has ! country as wonderful as our own md many times larger When a good Government is established and all the varring factions compromise on some settled agreement things should boom. Tor resources there is no richer land i han Siberia. When you consider that E bout every third day is holiday Z 'ver here you will see how easy life ! anne to them. I have met many i ger month who lived exceedingly we 6