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I found it impossible for me to Keep up so many
interest in the quartz veins so I dropped one for
Dr Oatman [J. C. Oatman] but that will make but little differ-
ance [difference] for I hold now about five hundred feet
and can buy more if thought advisable and
br [Brother] Oatman [J. C. Oatman] can come in equal with James
and me in your last letter you could not say
which way they would come. I hope they have
made up their minds to come by land. I would
much rather cross the plains than come by
water during the hot sickly season. The last
Steamer lost 28. I have much confidence in Dr
Oatman [J. C. Oatman] fiting out to come either way but I hope
the next letter will inform me -- and I think
they will find me immediately after their arrival
a friend of mine has gone out to meet his family and friends
on the plains he intends to go as far as Clover Valley on
the Humbolt [Humboldt] and there Station himself and if he can
hear any thing of James, or the Dr or Benjamin he
will render to them any assittance [assistance] they may need and
direct them to where they can find us -- We are
working at digging our race we are making
it deeper than first intended but it will be so
much better. The better we can turn the water
the more easily we can work the bed of the stream
and our prospect is fair (we think so). A company
of five men directly on a bar above us while dig[g]ing
their race struck a lead and took out 80 oz. last week.
Thirty five ounces in one day and they have been doing
well for the last four weeks. Our bar has not paid
much in diging [digging] the race but we think we will find