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cleaned up etc -- & at 8 oclock took train for Reno -- Through at 12 -- Found all hands all right as usual -- Staid at home & rested -- Bed at 9 --

Tuesday Nov 17

Stormy -- Commenced raining about noon steadily -- changed to snow toward evening -- Dr Bronson was out with his cutter by dark, First big snow and first sleighing of the season -- Home from office at 2 -- snow 9 inches deep and still snowing -- Bed 3 --

Big Snow 1 foot Wires Down Sleighing S. Crescengo

Wednesday Nov 18

The same -- Snowed more or less till about noon -- A foot deep -- PM thawy with little snow in the air -- Lots of cutters out -- Gold Hill 'bus on runners -- Work as usual -- Wrote & sent letter to Sam Crescengo, Austin, on stocks -- Wires down today till 3 PM when 2 wires worked to San F & the East -- & a few dispatches got through -- wires worked bad -- Home from office at 2 1/2 raining lightly -- very sloppy -- Bed 3 1/2 --

Thursday Nov 19

Same -- Snowed some more in the morning & rained some -- PM the clouds broke about 4 oclock but a sort of hazy fog set in which obscured the sun & also the moon in the evening & night -- thawy -- rivers and canyons & gulches all running full --

Plenty of Water for Mills -- Slushy J P Fegan Dies

1885