.MTI4Mg.MTAyODA3

I write to you the day I left home, Tuesday from Sandusky, Wednesday 〜 Chicago Thursday 〜 Du Quoin The first you probably get Wednesday the second Friday, and the third you may get Monday or Tuesday. I had nothing to write in them and there was no necessity of writing; only that I was so anxious to hear from you that I could not help writing whenever I could get a chance. Mr Keyes is away at Springfield for I have not yet seen him. Nor been able to do any thing hardly. Yesterday Mr. Keyes being absent, I paid the Miners $1275.00 for two weeks work. They are paid regularly every two weeks. A good miner can make a dollar per hour in the mine now that they make it a rule that no