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that I value my time at too cheap a rate Well illegible , I have not time to make a long defense the winter storms of the
Sierra are not easily borne but I am betwitched-enchanted must go. As to your proposition in regard to my writing for your
paper I have not time I wrote a description of Twenty hill hollow which I would send you but I have forgotten where I laid
it. I must also decline? on the same grounds the offer of general? cor- respondence with your farming? mill friend on California
as a place for illegible illegible from the other states. I will be happy how- ever to answer any particular enquiries that
he may send, to the best of my knowledge San Fran papers may easily be procured in them he will find much of the kind of knowledge
he is in illegible of. I will make this one statement that the people of the Atlantic states generally overestimate the
ag- ricultural advantages of California. You see that I have put off my adieu to the golden state. I will not leave the Pacific
Coast for five or sid months more I will receive any letters addressed either to Snellings or Hopeton. In shifting from one
pursuit to another I make my home either here or at Thos Eaglesons. Tell mother the girls where I have gone Remember me to
your wife little ones Farewell