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Camp at Upper Springs Reddings [Redding]
Diggings California Oct 7 1849.

Dear Beloved Wife

At length my dearest wife my pen is
compelled to inform you of other than good & cheering news.

The last letter I wrote to you from Lassen informed you of our
safe arrival there and of our having determined on locating
in these mines. Well two of our wagons & three men went from
that point down to Sacremento [Sacramento] City for supplies the balance of us
started for this place full of Golden Expectations from the Representations
that had been made to us. We put the loads of our four wagons
on the two we kept with us we also keeping the poorest mules
and we had the hardest kind of a time in [two words covered by a stain] hers with our
bunch we broke down a wagon & had to [word covered by stain] it. We finally
got here in a weeks [week's] travel & located in the side of a high mountain
some 3 miles from the diggings there being no water nearer. We
found the diggings any thing [anything] else but rich they having been
worked a great deal by Oregon men last summer & the best spots all
dug out & I Expect it is so all over the mines in the country
as we see people every day from the lower diggings who say the
same of them. We spent the first week in fixing up & looking
round us digging a little some finding considerable Gold.
The weather being so hot it was impossible to work much
now for the bad news my dear. last Monday week I was
appointed to join a party who were going to cross the
river and explore the country for new mines we started 18
men strong but two backed out from fear of indians [Indians] it being

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