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Our claim has been paying very light
of late, and we have fallen much
behind our expenses, yet we hope to be
able to retrieve our losses in time, we
have good prostects if any way can
he devised to work where we have obtained
them Our main tunnell proves to be thirty
feet too high and we are about to run a
slope to the lower ground to do which
we shall have to rent some machinery
either a horse power or steam engine to
hoist the dirt and pump water. I think
our ground is good, but many difficulties
impede the working of it. Patient perseverance
may in time surmount evry difficulty
and to that end we must look for the
reward of our laibor. Had we the benefit
of society and its appertinances we might
wait in contentment allowing the eye to grow dim
by the miners taper and age to stride on without
regret; but deprived of this great boom what
wonder one feels impatient, an ameless life!
buried from the world whilst living with
hardly a friend to perform the office if dead.
Still the miner has many golden hopes trancient
it maybe, yet they are the straws they cling to
I am glad you are about to get an appointment
at the Prison it is a good place to make money
and light work I should like a place there.