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a very short one. The fact of my sending
this by private hands will not detract much
from its real value. The bearer is Mr. Ryerson
who resides when at home just over the boundary
line of the town of Warwick in the state of New
Jersey. His given name I cannot now bring to
mind, but he is the son of the old Mr. Ryerson
in that section of the Country who has always
been a speculator in grain Cattle &c. He is a
man forty five or fifty years of age & inherits
to a full degree the speculation propensites of his
father. He this partner A. J. Brown, have
been, no doubt very successful in this country
I have no positive information on the subject
but I am inclined to think that they take
home with them not less tha $10,000 apeice.

They have made it in trade, at Sacramento
City within the past nine or ten months. I do
not wish this estimate of their good fortune
to be Known as Coming from me as I think
my friend Ryerson would not thank me for
this announcement whether correct or incorrect.

I am somewhat surprised to learn
by your last letter that you had about given up
the idea of shipping butter to this country as in
two or more of your previous letters you stated
that you had made the necessary precuniary
arrangements. I do not wish to infer, by my
surprise, that you have missed it in giving
up this enterprise - but your seemingly settled