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Dear Sister Jenny,
Although the usual address is on the top, yet I am in Beaver
Canon, Oneida County, Idaho Territory on the U. N. R. Road, 200 miles from home. I
was very pleased to get your last letter of March 1st, also the first one that you wrote
from Rome, and should have written to you before — but I did not understand by your
letter that you were permanent for any time, and was afraid that you would not be there.
I was very glad to hear that you are so favored as to be able to travel and see the
notable places of Europe, and hope that you are enjoying them and that you will see and
learn all possible under your circumstances — and some day be able to tell a less
favored mortal like me, all about them.
Myself & Wille returned from Colorado & New Mexico
last June—having enjoyed ourselves very well—just in time to see to the
summer's. work at home. John and Fred had put in grain so that we raised 400 Bushel,
but it cost us so much to get home $75.00 (15£) that financially our trip was not a very
great success. I just brought home $200.00 or (40£) for the 5 months work, besides
spending about $100.00.
John, Wille & Fred are good Boys to work, and are now
getting big and wanted to go from home to work this summer. There are lots of mining
camps and Railroad building around Utah but this western country is so rough, coarse &
blaggard, profane, drunken, gambling (the civilization that comes here with the mining
camps and Rail Roads) that I thought I would leave home awhile, and break them in to care
and take responsibility at home, rather than let them come into such places. So John with
the horse team is attending to our Butter & Egg business and the two other boys are
breaking up land, (50 acres) with 2 yoke of cattle, and Susan & Annie are working
& packing butter. I am Bookkeeper & clerk for a Lumbering company who own 4
saw mills, (personal friends of mine) here in Beaver Canyon U. N. R. R. my pay is $60.00 a
month and board, and I can get home if I wish in 2 days time.
One of the firm, S. Roskelly, returned last fall from England,
he called & saw Fanny and her family & had some talk but she never writes to me,
he also saw Bessie but she never writes to me, they were all well. I am likely any
day to be called as a missionary to go to England to preach the Gospel, and if called
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