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and with all this scarcity of money Franc pices [pieces] are
only Worth one shilling. The Cause the bankers
assign is they have shipped a million amonth [a month] more
than the mines Produce for several months
and they have taken the most of the money out of
the State and now they have got to stop they
have strained every nerve and are still doing it
to get people to settle on the farming lands but
if the trouble is if everybody goes to farming wher [where]
will they find market for their produce. I seen wheat
brought in a schooner sixty of [or] seventy miles and
sold in Sacremento [Sacramento] for a dollar and a quarter
per hundred which is seventy five cents a bush [bushel]
and in Oregon I am told there were fields of wheat there
that would not pay for Cutting so they left it there.
the mines are over run with Idle men for the
Gold is not everywhere a man digs as these Capi-
talists would make greenhorns believe and they
are beginning to find that out themselves.

Send our love to Father Mother and Sisters
also to Jane and all the rest of our friends
[My] Wife and Child are both in good health
and We all send our love to you James and
the Cats and kiss them for us

Adieu
John