Reference
X345/21
Title
General Post Office, San Francisco
Date free text
7 Jun 1883
Production date
From: 1883 To: 1883
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I am in California at a city called Elmira, having a week in an hotel for a look round. I left Troy about 2½ months ago. I was in Kansas State, which is wild, and a good deal in Colarado and New Mexico and the wild territory of Wyoming. I had to carry a big strong revolver. You ought to see the terrible hundreds of miles of mountains there. Then from Wyoming into Utah, which is a little better settled, and they are all Mormons. I was in Ogdon and Salt Lake City, that is where Brigham Young belonged. Then I come into the wild state of Nevader and Winemucca city and Wells city and all through the gold-mining camps, it is very hard work in the mines. California is a splendid country, it is full of fruit. I left Newcastle 3-4 days since, they was shipping carloads of all kinds of fruit away. It is 110 degrees here today. Trainloads of emigrants coming out here from the old country and the eastern parts. I came from Sacremento here, a splendid place, it has a large river, it is 30 miles east of Elmira, I am very near to Frisco. Send Charley's Mason address. You can go to Oregon on the boat for 10 dollars. I might get a job on the boats runing from California to Oregan and I can have a look at him. When I was in Denver city, Colerado, I sent some papers to Stive Wilson and Bob Metcalfe, when I got to the post office I forgot there address. How is all my sisters and John and dear Mother? You told me poor Grany is gone. There has been a good many people killed by the Indians a little time ago. Tell Elija Mason I wish he was here.
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