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Tuesday Nov 3
Cloudy, cold, blustering & threatening -- Rose at 11:30 -- About town as usual -- Evening about 10 slight flurry of snow -- Office till past 2 -- Bed at 4 -- snowing lightly, but blowing like the devil occasionally --
1st Snow of Season Sharon Dying
Wednesday Nov 4
Stormy -- Rose at 1:30 snowing very lively -- Whole country white --melted almost as fast as it fell -- PM changed to rain -- Not much of either snow or rain fell, but enough to make the streets pretty muddy -- Evening cleared off cold & freezing -- Mud froze -- Work as usual -- Through in office at 1:30 -- Bed at 2:30 -- Some cloudy -- freezing -- 1st snow, and 1st freeze of the season -- The latest telegram from San Francisco tonight was to the effect that Sharon, who has been sick from malarial fever the last two or three weeks was lying very ill at the Palace Hotel, tonight, and that his life was dispaired of --
Snow Sam Crescengo Sharon still alive
Thursday Nov 5
Cloudy & threatening & cold -- Sent another letter to Sam Crescengo, Austin, today, about stocks -- Office till 2 -- Bed 3 -- Snowed quite lively about 10 oclock this evening, but not enough to whiten the country -- Uncle Billy Sharon still alive but arranging his worldly affairs calculating to die very shortly --
Friday Nov 6
Same -- Mining day -- stood in as usual -- Got letter from Sam Crescengo, about
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Saturday Nov 7
Cloudy, with several light drizzly showers -- Wrote & sent letter to Sam Crescengo, Austin, on stocks -- Evening was at theater short time -- Saw two last acts of "East Lynne," as played by Mrs. Jeffreys Lewis and good dramatic company -- It was
Jeffreys Lewis Dramatic Co The "Rag Baby" company
done very well -- They played, last evening and for matinee today "Forget Me Not" -- Fair houses only -- Bed 3:30 -- Going to Reno tomorrow --
Sunday Nov 8
Clear & pleasant -- Overslept myself this morning & didnt wake till nearly 10, so couldn't go to Reno on morning train -- PM attended meeting of the Exempts -- At 5:25 PM left on train for Reno -- Arrived at 8:10 on time -- All right -- Bed 11
Monday Nov 9
Clear & pleasant -- Left wife [phrase is erased] Va at 10 AM -- work as usual -- Evening at show of "Rag Baby" theatrical company at Opera House -- Very funny -- Bed at 3 --
Freezing cold weather -- snow "Rag Baby" Paid my taxes in Austin
Tuesday Nov 10
Cloudy, cold, with some snow squalls in the PM -- cold freezing night -- Wrote letter to G H W Crockett Austin, County treasurer & ex officer Tax Receiver of Lander County, enclosing $1.80 to pay my taxes on my old cabin and lots -- also
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sent $1 greenback to take a drink with Bill Gibson, Charley Richards old man Wright and others, at John (Leutgens') saloon -- or where they please -- 6 page letter -- Second & last night of the "Rag Baby" show at Opera House -- Pretty fair house -- Was in office all evening -- Home at 2 -- Bed 3 -- Bitterly cold -- Thermometer in my room down to 45 -- Stole a big dry goods box as I came home to bed & took it along --
Wintry Sam Crescengo Fuel
Wednesday Nov 11
Clear & cold -- Froze all day in shade -- letter from Sam Crescengo, on stocks -- Office late -- Bed at 4:30 -- The big dry goods box I stole last evening [ ] this morning I chopped up this AM, & have now a pretty good amount of fuel -- Fired up on this when came Home -- room temperature 44 deg, it being a bitter cold night, but soon got it up to 58, with good fire of wood & coal, and went to bed comfortable, with a quart (Seltzer fry? ) of hot water between my feet & legs -- Thats the boss racket of all -- Sharon was still alive at least accounts --
Carson Tribune on "Corpuscles" Sam Cresengo
Thursday Nov 12
The same -- Sent Letter to S Crescengo and to RR Pasking of the Carson Tribune This last was replying and explanatory -- He found advertisement of Bower's Iron Bitters in local columns, speaking of blood "corpuscles" These local ads of B I
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Bitters come in sheets, ready printed, for insertion each day for the year round -- This one, Old Parkinson of the Tribune thought I wrote, same as all the rest and shoots off this in his paper of yesterdays: Col Shaw went to Reno this evening, leaving old Jim Townsend to do the Enterprise for him -- Bed 4:30 -- Freezing cold --
Sharon Dead Centennial Baby Quartz mill Sam Crescengo
Friday Nov 13
Clear & pleasant -- Mining day -- work as usual -- Bed at 3 -- Sharon died at 3:32 this PM in his Palace Hotel, San Francisco -- Flags at 1/2 mast in Carson and here --
Saturday Nov 14
Same -- PM attended meeting of trustees of Centennial -- Got letter from Sam Crescengo today about stocks -- Evening at 8 I walked out to the Fulton Foundry on the Divide, and saw a model quartz mill made to send to the New Orleans and London Expositions -- It is 1/4 the size of the regular quartz mills connected with Comstock ore reduction -- Made by a Comstock boy, 23 yrs old, named E J Squier -- Was put in practical operation 1st time this PM -- A really wonderful piece of
Baby Quartz Mill Col Shaw "off" Rain & Snow
work, considering that the boy did it all himself, engine, [bosler?] & all -- Col Shaw drunk & gambling tonight -- Didn't, stand in at all, & old Jim Townsend he put in his place & went off gambling again -- Bed at 3 --
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Monday Nov 16
Cloudy & inclined to be stormy -- A good smart rain in the morning wet the ground three or four inches -- Snowed good in the mountains up the Truckee, and north ward , and south to above Steamboat Springs -- only a few drops fell in Carson -- or Va -- Left on 7:10 AM train for Va -- Reached there at 10 -- Flags 1/2 mast in Carson on the mills along the river, lots of others in Gold Hill & away down the
Flags 1/2 mast for Sharons Funeral My Austin Taxes Paid Off for Reno.
canyon -- and only a half dozen in Virginia -- All in mourning token of funeral of Sharon this PM, in San Francisco -- Most of the principal stores in Va closed from 1 PM & till funeral was over -- Got my receipt from Crockett County Treasurer of Lander County, at Austin, for my State & county taxes on my old log cabin property in Austin -- $1.80 -- $40 real estate, & $10 improvement = $50 -- Work as usual -- Bed at 4 -- ___________ (This goes back one day)
Sunday Nov 15
A little cloudy & cold -- Bounced out of bed at ten minutes to 7 looked at watch & thought it showed 8 -- Jerked on my clothes in just 9 minutes -- rushed for train & was told by officer Ben Higbee that I had plenty of time -- Looked at my watch
At Reno -- 1st Big Snow 9 inches 1st sleighing
and found I was an hour ahead, sure enough -- So I went back to room -- worked &
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