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the beautiful harbor of San Francisco into which the city
is being fast extended by filling in with the dirt obtained from
the hills back & there are now may handsome brick stones
where but a year ago large ships floated. A month here is
about the same as a year in the states. There is about as much
done & one seems to see as much in a month as he would in
a year in New York or Boston Five stores are commenced here
one week & the next week are occupied by merchants having
in the mean time been built & finished. Rents here too
amount to as much in a month here as they do in the States
in a year. For instance Fisk & I pay for our store which is
a room 20 x 50 ft one story 200$ per month or 3000$ a year
which would buy a good farm in the town of Pepperell.

The water underneath our Store is about 20 ft deep & we
are on the outside street so that there two streets above
us that the water flows back under. The building is built
on piles driven into the mud until they touch the solid bottom
& the lot which it sets on which is the same size as the building
is valued at 4000$ although 20 ft under water. We have not as yet
got our business fairly started but I think we shall do well
soon after the streets are built alongside of our store & if I
had a little more money I think I could do a good business here
in the Ship Stores & Liquor Trade. So I am going to send to
Esq. Jewett for money enough with what I have already had
from time to time to make the amount 1500$ for I shall
have it any way in about 11 months & I think I may as well
have it now & be making 40 or 50 per client on it as to have
it lying in his hands & be recieving but 5 percent for it so
I should like if you will to have you see him & talk with