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Wednesday April 14

Same -- grass greening up everywhere, and tree buds swelling -- Spring has come -- Hale & Norcross folks all left last evening or today, till the 19th -- If the case has to be tried here, it will bring 100 people or more to Carson -- Street fearfully dusty -- Sprinkler needed -- Sent letter to Kinzle this evening train -- Bed 11:30 -- McCluen is recovering very favorably

Thursday April 15

The same -- Warmest yet -- 80° -- Col P J Keyes returned from SF this morning -- met him at the train -- He went down March 15 to attend to our mining stock case -- Has got it appealed to the Supreme Court of California -- I borrowed $10 from Ed Yerington -- Paid May Williams $6 I owed her for my room rent -- My present landlady proprietress Mrs Rinckel went to SF night before last -- Met George and John Housucker just arrived on morning train, from Georgetown, Cal -- They own the Rubicon Springs, other side of Lake Tahoe, and on their way over there, & to the lake tomorrow --

Geo Housucker & the Arena -- Wife & Bessie
My Trunk Arrives from Reno -- Street Sprinkling
Great Mississippi Floods -- Carson River up

I conducted George to the big arena & showed it to him in good style on the inside -- 300 ft diameter -- 400,000 ft of lumber -- hold 18,000 people -- Only one of its magnitude & style on the continent or the world -- letter from wife & Bessie, enclosing key to empty trunk she has shipped by