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Denver, May 4, 1863 10 My Dear Wife: I have intended to ask several times but forgot before the close of my letter what the Chicago artists said about the photographs of our Mothers. and also to inform you that Mr. Allen who was to have married us, is said to be living on a farm (ranch) about five miles from here. I have just come in having got my letter from you, and carried a couple to Mrs. Evans- the Doctor having gone up to his claim. He and Elbert have just bought a 2/3 interest in a claim from which two cords of ore per day are being raised, and some of it yields $1,000 per cord. The cost of raising and crushing is about $110 per cord. What price they have paid I don not know, but he assures me that with the additional machinery

he is going to put in,

that the claim will pay all the