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other Stock as two men with Sheppard [Shepherd] dogs
can take care of ten thousand of them this is the finest
country in the whole world for them. They can be
driven across the plains without difficulty if they
find they are too late they stop at Salt Lake during
the Winter and come through in the Spring. Sheep
worth one dollar in the States will bring from six to
twelve immediately upon arrival. Unless I am doing
Something that pays pretty well. I have a great notion
of coming home and taking a drove over next Spring
myself perhaps Murray would join me. We could
get through with enough that by Selling part to
make a handsum [handsome] proffit [profit] and out of the ballance [balance]
a fortune could be made.

I wrote Will Ruan a letter by the last Mail.
There is a man living in town that knows him
his name is Gilligan a baker from Apalichicola Apalachicola
I expect Susan probably knows him.

I was glad to See by your letter that Aunt Rachel
had got better, how she would enjoy this climate
no more coughs and colds it is the best for
consumptives in the World an important matter where
we all have a tendency that way. You must have
recieved [received] my daguerotype [daguerreotype] by this time. I would like
to have been there to hear the remarks although
I do not know if my vanity would have been much
flattered by them.

I have just returned from the Bay. I saw the
Paxsons they were both well, their business was