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letterhead 01126 1 19 Feb 6 1884 Dear Brother John Your letter was recd about a week ago. I was very glad to hear from
you. Am very sorry you failed to visit us when you had made up your mind to do so, we are all quite well except Katie. She
has been ailing for several years is rather worse of late. My family is pretty well grown up Carrie is in her 20th year Annie?
in her 17th. both are a great deal larger than their mother, Willie? is 14 Johnnie 11 year old you may be sure they are a
great care responsibility So much going on in a town letterhead 0126 3 No 2 Cap Russell has returned from Sh illegible
Cliff a week ago. he is in illegible the illegible now. illegible 3/4 of illegible all of the illegible . She says he made
a thousand dollars for the company by so doing. he is absolutely certain that illegible will down by a mile? perfected before
long, which is all we are waiting for. he says our group- illegible -all in a lump illegible is the finest property in the
cliff. It has also been proved that nearly all of the ones there enjoy about 25 to the ton in illegible besides their silver.
He thinks a great deal of the Indian chief want to fat it illegible he is quite certain that is as good as the illegible mine.
in margin: Remember me kindly to the girls boys. DGM