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Nov 12'/52

  I suppose it is necessary to write enough to redeem my character althoug it will be of but little use to look for any new after Lucy & Ann have both laid their hands upon every thing of interest Perhaps it may be of some interest to know that I have five teams now at work, hauling logs expect to put in one more in about four weeks, it will be expensive logging this year has costs at the camp $27. corn is worth here $1.10 per bushel pork $25, , Lumber is selling off this Fall very well and we expect logs to be high next Spring. Yesterday there was a contribution for the releif of the poor in this City. First Parish $150. Sixty of which was given by Gen Veazie. Third $44  Hammond St $100. I have not yet learned what was given by the other Churches. George Frizzell of Milo Died while I was at Milo sick but a few days, Lung Fever. The River R.R. from here to Old Town is under Contract. The work will commence this winter. Depot will be on the Peobots wharf below Brown's store. The Road from O.T. to Lincoln is to made next season. Mr. Jewett is at work in Mason work this Fall. The Kennebec Road is under contract but perhaps a little doubtfull about it's being pressed forward. The Shire of the Unitarian House is completed height about 180 feet, quite an ornament to our Pine City. The Spire of the third will be about 165 feet I will you all the crumbs of Comfort which you can pick up or get in any honest way in your land of fleas & Skeeters   S.W. Furber
                                                                                                                                                          Lucy's husband