Dear Brother and FatherI
received your last letters and was
glad to here that you are all
well. Ms. [D]Electta Woodruff
was confined [Hous] 28 she has
a daughter hir healthe iss very
poor in concequence off hir cile
and stomack itis the liver comp
hir cile smells bad we have 3 livein
children one buoy and 2 girls laste
summer was the dryest ever know
laste Sept the grasshoppers destro
moste Everythinge the winter very rain
open a littele snow a greatetest off snowhay from 10 to 12 dollars pr tone
pork 7 pr hundred beef from 4 to 5 dol
flower 5 dollars per barrel wheat 100
per bushels corn 75 cts per bushels oats 37 21/2
cts potatoes no roat 31 1/2 cts butter has
been 20 cts per pound is 16 chickens 18 cts
eggs 15 cts per dozen fraut [fruit] very plenty
this season. I sold my apples last
fall at picken time in the orchard
at 37 1/2 cts per bushels they furnished
barrels dryed fruit last fall was
one dollar per bushels is now 1420 ^125^
cts Andrew and I went afishing afew
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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
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with little fish have a boeey at each
end off the rope on the top off the
water soasyou can find it as
it respets Asmon he is aliveing
at Scruple corlenoy he runs
away with streange ides he has
Just been to proclaim the last
third Angels mesage he has
maniaged his busness very poor.
as it respets temporal affaris Ersa
got aland warrent for his cervis in the
florida war ^and^ revisited Florative Stand
last Summer in Penn And
started to locate him self in Indian
this is the last we have heard from
him I received your pamphlet
redit partley threw and return
it to Asmon ^S H^ some Idees Inever thouh
off before I wish you or your people
to explain on the fall off Man
our first Parentes I am in the dark
and alluyas was as it respects that
your nursey will soon be [larae]enou
to begin to graft graft on the swell
off the line the sap is then the
freeist grafte Yellow Greeninges
Spitsenburg a good maney Bau
Bouden a great barer keep late
Peal like Spitsenburg Bur 4 kinds
off Russets a great maney off
the Earley Rose
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I believe you can get cions from
this cuntry in to your valey
the nexte letter you write to me
I want that Father should
write a few lines in the Letter
to me ^to remember him buy^ I wante your age and
his age and his and Mothers
ages iff you know what they
are to Remember them buy
there I sureparte here that your Peop
on m a greate wealth in the mines
there is aplase called Mormon Island
I would like to know iff your people are
that likewise Capt Sutter improvements
I do not sea anny thing why your
people cannot become a rich Nation iff
you will be agreed when you write
to me write all the nuse have
you get alonge as to your prosper
please to direct my letters to Pulaskie Please to direct Asmon
the Town off Scruple Corlenoy
these cold northern countryes it takes
all we can earn there in the Summer
to winter on it is note so in your cuntry
nor in Oregon give my respets
to all who inquire after my
wellfare.