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can be loaned here on the best Kind of fire proof
Buildings for from three to five per cent [percent] per month.
This perhaps may give you an Idea of the proffits [profits] of
trade when men can pay 60 per cent [percent] per annum
for mining to trade on. if any of your friends would
like to get some such interest I can arrange it
at any time. I would not have you think that
I borrow myself I would much rather lend. The law
authorises [authorizes] parties to fix their own rate of interest. We have
no usury law & the security is equal to any in the world
& there is some difference between 6 per cent [percent] & 60.

In my last I proposed to Murray to bring out
across the plains a lot of Conestoga horses large
heavy team. Stock bring enormous prices any good
horse will bring $500, and large ones bring double
and trebble [triple] that amt. [amount], he could come out Sell his
Stock and be home again in from seven to nine
months as horses just over and in poor condition
will sell readily at a handsome proffit [profit] provided
they possess the requisite size. The description of
horses I am describing are held at one thousand dollars
apiece. There is more proffit [profit] in them than in fine
or fancy animals $5000 invested in this way
would bring at last [least] $15000 here and making
alowance [allowance] for accidents he would be safe to clear
$10000.

Do not think that all my thoughts are devoted
to money making. But as I am doing well myself I want
to see my friends and relations do so also likewise.
You ask me where Marysville is, to give you a better
Idea, I will give a general description of the country
and accompany it with a rough "Pen and Ink" sketch" is.
The general Course of our coast & ranges of Mountains
& Rivers is northwest and south east. The Sierra Nevada
or snowy Mountains is the eastern Boundary of
the state about 200 miles west of there is another