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I got 2 wks more benefits -- makes 8 weeks in all -- total $48 -- Whole lot better than nothing -- Evening about town -- Bed at 1

Monday May 11

Clear warm & pleasant -- As usual -- Evening, lodge -- Bed 1 --

Tuesday May 12

AM cloudy -- PM a copious rain pervailed for some hours washing off the dirt, flushing out the sewers, etc -- lots of angle worms made their appearance crawling on the streets and sidewalks -- evidently rained down -- clouds must be wormy -- I have been engaged the last 3 or 4 days getting material and information for F C Robins, Pres't & Genl Manager of the Golden West Investment Company -- headquarters at Winnemucca, as to how many millionaires the Comstock has produced, their names,

1/2 fare pass -- Stox* break -- April showers

amount of millions of each, present whereabouts and commercial doings, etc -- Also the amount and variety of Nevada's traffic with the East for general merchandise, supplies etc -- Quite a job -- Wrote it up today and this evening in pencil -- 24 pages -- Bed 2 -- Rec'd letter from D A Bender, Genl Freight & Passenger Agt V & T RR Carson, in response to one I sent to Yerington last Saturday applying for 1/2 fare pass over the road -- Enclosed 1/2 fare pass for Alf Doten & wife, good until Dec 31 1891. Stox* broke some today -- Con Va down to 15 3/4 -- but rallied to 16 1/4 after the PM board --

Wednesday May 13