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any one can live in this or any other country. I have drawn the
400.$ from Turnbull & Walton which with what I had amounted to
590$ Out of this I paid my expenses up to the mines & back which amtd
to about 50$. & I paid for 4 weeks board 60$ washing extra I also put
about 400$ into our store which included Fisks [Fisk's] share so that
he gave me his note for 274.$ which is paying me very good interest
as legal interest in this state is 10 per cent per annum & I have
spent about 15.$ or 20$ rather foolishly since I arrived here & before
I commenced business. The above is a true statement & now I am
making all I can & saving what I make which at present is not
a great deal but I hope it will be more soon.

I like this country very much as regards climate facilities
for making money &c. but society is nothing comparitevely [comparatively]
speaking & if I had a plenty of the dust I would soon be in
New England in the good old town of Pepperell where I have
already spent my happiest days. Speaking of the climate
here I must say it is beautiful. Since I have been here we have
not have a drop of rain & you can always during what is called
the dry season depend upon fair weather & the only thing at
all disagreeable is the fog which blows into the city toward
night from the sea. This happens however only about two months
during the dry season & the rest of the time the weather is beau-
tiful & the temperature of the air warm & even with no sudden
changes from hot to cold & cold to hot. It is in San Francisco not
what you can call real hot but is warm in the morning &
towards night a breeze springs up so that the evenings are
quite cool. Back in the country where we went they have neither
rain nor dew for months together & the weather through the day is
what you could call hot the thermometer often standing at 120 [degree symbol]