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to git [get] home with som [some] men som times [sometimes] make a
grate [great] strike while others make nothing & when these
men makes this strike then it is [?] about
all over the world & nothing sed [said] about them that
makes nothing at the same time about those that
makes nothing this looks strange dont [don't] it is so
no mestake [mistake] i [I] hav [have] wished my self [myself] to home
& still wish so ithink [I think] that i [I] hav [have] mised [missed] it
coming to this contarey [country] for it is a great cry
like the devell [devil] shearing the hog & giting [getting] hinselv [himself]
in room of wool & litle [little] at that i [I] hav [have] wrot [written]
to you a bout [about] the contary [country] & the folks &c [etc.]

Moses has gon [gone] south whare [where] Chansey is 200 hundred
miles south of this to manif[?] in the sothern [southern]
digans [diggins] whare [where] he & Chansey is going to mine this
winter we ar [are] wating [waiting] for aleter [a letter] from him we
dont [don't] no [know] but we shall go whare [where] they ar [are] this winter
we ar [are] at a stand to no [know] what to do and whare [where] to
go or what to do and we hant [haven't] done thousans [thousands] in
the same situation what will you think of this it
is true without eney [any] mestake [mistake] flower [flour] is skarse [scarce]
& hy 34 1/2 cents per pound & still rising but litle [little]
now in town plenty of Beaf [beef] at 25 & 30 cents per
pound Buter [butter] [?] per pound so that you can see
that a man has to mak [make] two or three piles
to save one in his pocket one ax [axe] 4 dollars
one shovel 4 dollars pick 5 dollars handels [handles]