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Sacramento City August 28^th 1850

Dear Brother

This is to inform you that we Are Reasonable
well Although Since I had the dysentary [dysentery] in
Panama I have been subject to diarea [diarrhea] Now and then which
is a common complaint in this country and not very
Agreeable one hoping these few lines may find you all in
good health I Recieved your two letters one dated May 30^th 1850
and yours dated June 30^th 1850 Both I Recived [received] at this citty [city] —
Augst [August] 26^th 1850 on the same Day with the three Bills of
Laden But No Bill of Amount of wates [weights] of Butter lost and Epences [expenses]
there With send in Next the cost Expences [expenses] In shurance [insurance] and alt
all Expences [expenses] Deliverd [delivered] on ship Board in very small figures so i
will take up not much Room of Each lot. I Arrived at San Francisco
on the 7^th or 8^th of July of which you have Received our letters
to that Effect we Remained there a few Days and then went
the River to Sacramento City which Both Places are great Places
of Business Beyond my Expectation the streets look like
the Buisness streets of New York thronged with People and
goods about 160 Miles apart then started to see the mines
We Went to Place caled [Called] colloma Coloma about fifty miles of Sacramento City and Work in the mines about two weeks of [off] and on
and traded a little Not thinking to work in the mines for the
Work is two [too] hard for us or you Either if you was here and
so very hot Allong [along] the Rivers and cook for ourselves and Nothing
But our Blankets on the ground and some times without
any thing over us like a tent they [there] is a great many People