3

Tuesday March 6

Clear & pleasant but cold -- Bed 1 -- Sent letter this evening to wife calling for $100.00

Wednesday March 7

Variable & disagreeable -- Bed 1 --

Con Va Assessed 50 cts -- Kinzle -- 1894
The Darkest Comstock -- The old Sun

Thursday March 8

Variable & thawy -- Letter from wife on the financial proposition -- replied to it by evening mail -- Bed at 12 -- Wrote 2 pages of a letter to Kinzle before I went to bed -- Assessment of 50 cents levied on Con Va -- the first for some months -- Had to be, for mining production and prospects are looking worst I ever saw on the Comstock. Not much over 200 miners at work --

Friday March 9

Cloudy & very blustering, with some light snowstorms in the PM. 3 page letter to Kinzle -- Bed at 12 --

Saturday March 10

Clear & pleasant -- Passed as usual -- Bed 12 -- The old sun peeped into my room over the main building, about 10:40 AM today for the first time this season -- Only for about 20 minutes however -- shows he's getting up in the world -- glad to see him --