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2 if by so doing you can make yourself family permanently more happy, If business is overdone in Portage seek another market
for your goods, if you decide to move at all. give a serious thought to California xx deleted the Pacific Coast in general,
Money is much more abundant here than in the Atlantic states, still there is a good deal of competion in the dry goods business,
but you may find a place where you can establish yourselves I am not qualified to give advise about the matter in anything
like particular terms but I am sure that in a new country, rapidly developing - which abounds in the essential elements of
natural wealth success? is sooner or later sure to the in margin: Here is a cluster of flower cups from the curious Manzanita
bush (Arctostapholas glauca) I found it this morning in the walks? 3 valued enterprizing If you resolve to spend your
life in agricultural pursuits do not choose Cal' ifornia for a home But I will likely see you ere you are found following
the plow to your old song of success to the jolly old farmer . Farming was a grim, material, debasing pursuit under fathers
generalship but I think much more favorably of it now. The saw mill I have been at work upon belongs to Mr Hutchings It is
in full operation now runs extremely well. So you perceive I am of some practical benefit to humanity as well as the strictly
useful people Mr Hutchings claims a quarter section of land in the in margin: The manzanita is for Katie? . You of course
cannot look at flowers amid the illnatured distractions of hard times. Most cordially yours. Remember me to Mrs. Parry? warmly
to your family -JM