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Virginia Minstrel Cheap Watermelons

Monday Aug 8

Clear & pleasant -- About 84 deg -- PM rode to the Hill & back on 'bus -- Couldnt trade with Jones Jr for 500 shares centennial -- Evening was at Opera House -- First performance of the Virginia Minstrels -- some of the boys about town, with the Adams Bros from outside -- Pretty fair house and performance -- Bed at 1 --

Tuesday Aug 9

Same -- Lively watermelon war in town -- Plenty of them -- McGurn knocked the price down to one cent a pound -- Everybody bus 'em -- About town and home -- Bed at 10 -- Rose at 2:30 and wrote three pages of a letter to Eunice -- Bed again at 5 --
Euenice Sam Jones and Chollar

Wednesday Aug 10

Same -- PM down to Gold Hill & back on 'bus -- Found Sam Jones at the Crown Point office & had good interview relative to my [chollar?] proposition -- Evening about town -- Bed 1 --

Our Lima Shaft Proposition

Thursday Aug 11

Same -- a little cooler -- About 78 -- PM met Lawson, & we had consultation relative to our [chollar?] proposition -- Told him about my Sam Jones interview etc -- He was in with a buckboard & 1 horse -- rode with him out to the Divide -- We left

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