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they will not sell for enough to
pay the expense of bringing them into
market, so you see poor people can
now live here almost as cheap as they
can in the Eastern States. (Another favorable
thing is that we always have warm weather
here, -- no snow nor no ice to speak of.)
Although if one goes to a Hotel or Boarding
House, he or she are obliged to pay from
$7-$15 per week for Board or Lodging ---

Mr Noyes [Ephraim Noyes], Mr Millet and myself
continue to ranch. We hire a room
for $9 per month and do our own
cooking, and aside from our room
rent it does not cost us on an average
more than $2.50 per week which
makes quite a saving for us, and
then we live better than we should
at a boarding house, unless we were
willing to pay a pretty high price ---

I received a letter from Sam
Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker] last week. The reason why I did
not receive one sooner was because
he wrote me and sent the letter down
by a friend of his who could not find
me so after keeping the letter a
fortnight he sent it back again
to Sam, so before I got it, it had

[in left margin]
Do not fail to have your miniatures taken and sent to me
as soon as convenient, and I will send you anything in return
that you may wish
HAP [Henry A. Parker]