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The S. D. Bailey is now launching from
San Pedro, as you will see by the advertise-
ment, in one of the papers which I shall
send Charles. She will get a full load
and I think make a very good trip
of it ---

Should you suppose that Flour
would be shipped from here to New York?

If you had been here in the winter
of 1853. when it was worth $50 per bbl.
you would not have thought so,
but times and things have changed
here very much since that time
and a large clipper ship (The "Charmer")
is now loading with Flour and grain
for New York. She will take 900 tons
of Wheat and Barley, and 4000 or 5000
barrels of Flour. I understand that the
shippers pay about $6 per bbl for the
Flour, while in New York it is worth
$9 or $10. I think this will be a good
deal now shipped from here by other
vessels, so at last, California can, not
only furnish the world with gold, but
also with produce.

Potatoes are now worth from 10 to
40 cents per bushel. Thousands of bushels
will be left in the fields to rot, because

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Monday Eve April 30th I am as well as usual this evening. The mail steamer
has not yet arrived, but is expected this evening. I shall send Chas.
three papers, one of them Sam Tucker [Samuel P. Tucker] sent me, The Columbia Clipper Extra!