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New Year's Day -- My Nevada Write-up on 1900
SF Chronicle -- 20th Century Wrangle -- Van Duzer
Wife -- Van Duzer -- Wm Webster

Carson City, Nevada, Monday, January 1, 1900

Cloudy -- moderate -- Observed after the usual style -- no business or working day -- people visiting each other & general sociability -- Evening mail I sent letters to SF Chronicle to return my Pioneer article, it not yet having appeared, to Van Duzer, and to Judge WM Webster, Reno telling him to look out for the SL Tribune, New Year's edition with my Nevada write up, from which he might get a few good extracts for his Reno Journal -- Bed 12 -- cloudy & no frost -- warmest night of winter --

Tuesday Jan 2

AM some good showers of rain. PM cloudy, variable -- moderate -- Rec'd 12 copies of Salt Lake Tribune of yesterday -- New Year's edition -- Had my Nevada write up in it all right -- 3 or 4 columns of it -- 64 pages -- for 5 cts -- gave away most of them -- Sent one to wife & one to Gardnerville Record -- Everybody in Carson, and according to the papers and telegrams, throughout the world wrangling about when the 20th century begins -- Evening about town -- Bed 12 -- clear & not frosty -- got letter from wife & from Van Duzer today --

Rainy -- Senator Jones with Magazine -- Irvin Lewis
The Century Wrangle -- Cornelia
Mail cut off -- Jim Townsend -- Magazine -- Van Duzer
Lewis -- Pioneer Article Returned from Chronicle & sent
to magazine --