cams_HBFlagg_b15_F007_001_002

new comers continue to come in quit [quite] fast many stopt [stopped]
down at San Francisco the past winter a grate [great] many are
waiting for the water to fall in the river up back in
the mountins [mountains] so that they can work but they will find
it a hard life to lead, two of the men that come out in
in the Edward Everett have worked hard ever since they
comenced [commenced] and two weeks ago had not five dollars
worth of Gold The day after they found a peach [piece] worth
over six hundred dollars so you can see what uncertin [uncertain]
buisness [business] Gold digin is a Lottery after all. The next
letters that you writ [write] direct them to San Francisco I
shall be more likely to get them the letter that
brother Charles wrote me last Aug [August] in New York
I got this spring soome [some] time the last of March you
can see how uncertin [uncertain] they are in gitting [getting] to me there
is a express that brings my letters to me in the
mines frome [from] San Francisco Sacramento City is rather
out of the way of the Southern mines where I shall
continue to work for a while I think soome [some] of seteling [settling]
down Calaforna California or down in South America but I
shall come back to Old Mass once more if I am
a live [alive] and that I think next fall you need not
look for me until you see me I suppose you will
doubt of my being capable of settleing [settling] down in any
place I think so myself at times I want you
to tell brother Charles to write to me for I believe
that he has forgot himself This letter must do for
all of you in the New England States for writing is a
task