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2 take all the Yo. basin under control, while the management has not yet confessed it is bad. A more utterly senseless worthless
column of words could not be gathered together on the subject, if honest the writer must have been what Burns calls foo. Still
I hope I may be mistaken. I have never heard of the Expositer how that paper can be a first class means of adddressing the
people of California I cant see. I suppose it must be one of the foothill papers of Mariposa or Fresno its Yo letters might
be copied by the city papers thus get widely published. Anyhow Ill wait grumble no more. I inclose a Robinson letter from
the Examiner very selfish but honest I think calculated to do more good than harm perhaps. He promised to let me see anything
he wrote before offering for publication but has not done so