afew days agoe on Salmon River one
day we coat 100 pounds the next day
60 they were pickerel in consequence I
galled and frose my feet and ame
lame inn the house all own to my
freaseing them in my youth while
liveing with Julius Hickcock
inn Con I ow him and [sold grud]
for it to this day and have reason to Andrew lives on the Walter Menter farm
nere me they have one daughterAphek
has written holme he is to work at Salmon Falls Eldorado Co Callifornia
he was cick Last Sept with the Colery
10 days cickness coste 175 dollars I
wish you to write to him in my beh[alf]
requesting him to call and make
you avivsite before he leaves I
would like iff the Lord is willing
some day to come and start yo
a nursery I am glad to here off
your improvementes you do not nknew the worth of them you
have a large cuntry cetteling a
round you you can make your
self rich on that one thing you can
ketch as manny trout in the utter Lak
as you are aminet buy cinkinge a
rope in deep water in to the lake
on the bottom tie on shante lines and
in 10 feet on to the rope and bait
"Letter from Ozem Thompson Woodruff and Wilford Woodruff Jr., 21 January 1856," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 22, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/rpD6