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"Happy New Year" Bro Charley 1888 Hat lost Great Snow 2 ft Application of WM [Raileigh?]

Sunday Jan 1, 1888

Cloudy, but moderate & pleasant. PM & evening, about town attending to business -- life insurance, etc, Bed at 1 -- An unusually quiet "New Years" -- Turkey lunch at the the various saloons, but little heavy drinking or boisterous hilarity -- Snow 2 ft deep --

Monday Jan 2

Stormy & thawy -- PM & evening slight drizzly rain, & deep snow -- Fierce winds in evening -- My hat blew off, went 1737 feet high & soared off over the Sugar-Loaf down toward Fort Churchills 20 miles distant -- I had to get a new one -- about town as ususal -- Letter from Bro Charley in letter from wife, Reno -- Bed at 1 -- snowing -- The snow which was three feet deep last Friday has settled to 2 ft or less & melting considerably -- bad tracking for animals or any sort of vehicles -- Rewrote application of Wm [Raileigh?] today & left it with Dr Webber --

Very heavy and deep snow -- "Monte Cristo"

Tuesday Jan 3

Occasional snow squalls -- Over a foot additional snow this morning in addition to what was before, making 3 feet, more or less -- About town, as usual, but not good traveling for man or beast in any direction -- This is as heavy, and I think the heaviest snowstorm I have yet seen on the Pacific coast or state of