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weighing Seventy five lbs [pounds] to the bushell [bushel].
What do you think of that. We have corn
18 feet high three ears to the stalk & ten ft [feet]
to the first ear it was thought that corn
could not be raised here on acc [account] of the
drouth [drought]. I wish Some one would offer
a good price for the old place & you
would pack up & come out here & live
in a State that in ten years will be ahead
of the rest of the union but that is too good
to hope for you will Stay where you are and
vegetate while here a man can find full
Scope for all his energy & rise with the
growth of a new country, it Seems to me that
life would be a burden if I had to drag
it along after the old fashioned way that
prevails among you, give me full Scope
for my energy and I am happy do not
suppose for a moment that I am at
all disposed to rush into rash Speculations
on the contrary. I have had some two
thousand dollars laying by me for two months
past which I have not used becaused [because] I did
not wish to run any risk, but pardon this
digression. Our Commission is five percent clear
of all expence [expense] & all the goods we can sell. We
have a lot 40 by sixty near the Steamboat Landing
right in the heart of the heavy buisness [business] part
of the town. We will put up a Store the full size
of the Lot and open a Corn forwarding & Storage
business. I have done a considerable amt [amount] of the
two latter during the last five months & have
made a good deal more than my expences [expenses]