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I left home but the bank diggins on the
rivers is pretty well worked and although
a man can make two or three dollars a day
any place he has a mind to go to work
but this will not much more than pay
Expences [expenses] and every person that comese [comes] here expects
to make more than a liveing [living] for they
can get that at home but in my observations
in the mines I find that the man that
has made the most money are the men
that has the worst off now. this very
morning I seen a man who we call
Scotty that was here when the mines
first opened and left diggins where he
could make a pound of gold per day
and hunt for better and who spent
fourteen pounds of gold on one spree.
I seen that man this very morning
go to the bar and beg for a glass of liquor
and he would go out with his knife and
pan and get gold enough to pay for
it and this only one case out of nine or
ten that I know of in this vicinity.
the diggins have run out here. I have
not made my board for the last two
weeks. I have been up the river
hunting for diggins but have been