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So I had an opportunity of seeing the mines, rocks, canons, ores &c. of that famous city under very favorable circumstances. Mr. Thomas Ogden, formerly on East [illegible?] street, Milwaukee, was my chief conductor. He was one of the five Norwegians who first explored and located these mines in 1862. At night, the Judge landed me again at the mouth of the Monitor, and I found that some apprehension had been entertained on account of my absence.

Yesterday we came here in the stage and find that the foliage and the flowers have come forward at a wonderful rate since we went up a week ago. Today we are to visit the Mint, the Penitentiary, the Warm Springs and other places of interest here; at 6 tonight we go on to Reno and Sacramento.

All well; got two letters at Monitor.

Yours affectionately,

I.A. Lapham.

Mary J. Lapham.

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Reno, Nevada, May 1, 1870.

My dear Daughter--

We arrived here yesterday on our return from Monitor and will go on at 2 1/2 A.M. to Sacramento. We spent a day at Carson City, the state capital.*** Et. Gov. Slingland sent his carriage to take us to his home where we had a nice lunch and in the adjacent quarries found bones of some of the old geological monsters, but too much broken to determine which.

The ride from Carson down the valley of the Washoe river, by the side of the Washoe lake, through the Washoe cannon, north of the now a most deserted Washoe city, and over the alkaline deposit of the steamboat springs to this place was very delightful and full