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01073 2 and I have given you therefore a simple statement of my condition. We are now permanently located at this place
where our oil works are established. We have a plain but comfortable little house and live in a quiet way society of course
is scarce, no other lady here but my wife of white men there are seventeen; occasionally a white man or two will call in while
not prospecting, once or twice a month the Rose calls, once a month the Idaho thus we see new faces, being always busy we,
do not feel lonesome - and as we enjoy to a great extent living here. The establishment is made up as follows: a factory building
40 x 40 with long gu illegible barrel sheds attached, illegible house, seine salt house, boarding house (the old shore building)
bleaching house, new two story store building two cottages, a wharf in course of erection, steamer Favorite as fishing boat,
steam