Remember me to the family tell Mr Stevenson to let me know when the chimney is likely to be finished that I may be there to
see. The time it is taking makes me think of the Egyptian Pyramids. The foundation of it illegible fair to be mossy with age
before the top becomes smoky. Tell me how Miss Roberts is getting on give her my kind regards I met your High School teacher
in S. F. the other day Helen. He inquired kindly about your health wished to be remembered. Mr Cooney or Mooney How are the
trains getting through, the Salton sea seems bound for the sky is causing the S. P. no end of trouble. Mr. Johnson wrote
me the other day asking for an article on the Petrified Forests- I must try to write this It will be a grand advertisement?
. Heaven bless you darlings - Your loving father J.M.