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it big in the bed of the river The bar and bed
are seldom both rich we will be in in the
course of two weeks. We are making from two
three dollars per day diging [digging] our race that pays
expences [expenses] &c -- You say you do not think you
can let the farm to good advantage -- never mind
the land will still be there. I wish you to try to have
a stack of hay sufficient to winter your stock
if convenient if not convenient let it go and
I will get it with gold when I return or sell the stock.

I hope you will have some person to stay with you
and not think of staying alone and give yourself
as little uneasiness about the farm and things out
doors as possible one thing sure and certain as
soon as the fall or winter rains drive me out of
frezno [Fresno] I leave for home. I received a letter from the
(hon H D Risley) and such a letter well he begins. Thus
you "Robert in the land of gold and I. H. D Risley in the land of
corn -- twenty years ago you over a dry Kettle I over a
salt Kettle --" then about the road &c -- now I wish
to have an interest in the road enough to exempt
me from paying toll probably one share of $100
and then I wish you to buy if you can [if ?] the sales are
opened for canal land -- the west half of the South
west quarter of Section no. three Town Thirty four north
of Range ten East contain Eighty acres being the lot lying
on the East side of the road begining [beginning] at the first coner [corner] of
Chapmans field extending half mile towards Jackson grove
it was apprised [appraised] at $3.25/100 per acre I would give $4-
if that is sold I would then take the East half of the
North East quarter of Section nine (9) Town 34, Range 10 E