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Sacremento Sacramento City Apr 4, 1850

Dear Sister I think most time to answer soome [some]
of your letters I received one this morning from you and
one from Ellen Feb 13 and Dec 31 and was happy to here [hear]
you were all well, and I suppose you will wish to know
how I am, my health is tolerable good at this time
yet I have sceen [seen] soom [some] hard times the past winter
the scurvy and rumitism [rhumatism] come very near doing me
up brown I left the mines two weeks ago and
traveled down to this place with my blankets on
my back distance 75 miles it is the first time I
have left the mines since I went into them last Aug
I shall go back into the saim [same] in a few days and stop
until I leave for home if I can tell where that is
I have not don [done] so well the past as I did last fall but I
going to give it one more trial Gold is hard to be obtained
in California the face of things is changing fast in this
Cuntry [Country] crimes are on the increse [increase] the men that were
killed last winter wer [were] from New Orleans they were
at woork [work] just below me we went after them and the law
brought them back before they got to Stoctown Stockton two were
shot down the rest had one hundred lashes a piece
and thare [their] heads shaved and ears cut off and ordered to leave
the Cuntry [Country] the Indians are getting soome [some] what bad
of late the miners have killed a few and will soon
finish the rest when they are over at it, thare [there] is
considerable sickness at present and as the warm
weather increses [increases] quit [quite] a number of the Everetts Co are dead