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Seeking for gold seems to be the most exciting thing in the world let men only get the gold fever and no matter how well they are prospering in the world they will become unreasonable, sacrifice home, means, and friends, abandon all that is worth living for, for a shadow. I have seen more human misery and suffering on that road in one day than I would hear of in a year in the city of Chicago. I have seen poor fellows left a happy and comfortable home, started with some friends and a fair outfit. now their subsistance had vanished sickness had laid its heavy hand upon them and the friends of their prosperous days deserted them in their misfortune. That is the place to try a true friend he that would stick to me crossing those plains through toil hardship and sickness I would call a true friend and I should depend on him ever afterward. There was a great many objects of curiosity round the city of Denver and we spent two days looking at the sights, there was a thetre in full blast with the ? sisters as the great attraction. The Post Office was ? from morning till night you would have to get in the line behind about a hundred there was a United States Mail route now established and we got our letters for three cents. Board at the hotels was ten dollars a week and find your own bed and they were doing a brisk business I think it was the best business going on in the city. Coming round one corner I found an auctioner in full blast selling as cheap and cheaper he said than the thing could be bought in America. To day I saw the celebrated Kit Carson he had come from New Mexico to pay the Indians their annuities he looked about five feet ten high and forty years of age a deep determined looking eye and ? in his every movement from his looks he was just the man that deserved all the credit of the celebrated explorations of the great pathfinder