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of them (Wood and Mrs? Mahill? concluded to winter in the city, the rest (seven of us) bought another load of provision, took what clothes and Tools we need for the winter and started again for the mines, We have built a Cabin 50 mls from City, within two miles of the south fork of the American River, seven of us are in company in the provisions, and all Live together, one brings? the Water three cut the wood, and three do the cooking, I am one of the cooks Ben and Jesse OBrien are all the partners I have in digging we have been to work here about a month and have dug about two hundred dollars worth a piece we shall probably? stay here two or three months longer, when I think we shall go far into the mountains, where we hope (if the mountain Fever and Prolians? spare up) to make over our pile and get Home in two years, but we have not decided for certain, where we will go in the spring, we can enerage? in the Summer about here, and on the River, only about one Oz of Gold per day, which is worth here, but sixteen dollars, we think it insufficient to pay, when we take every thing into account, Gold is being dug in this country all a long from North to the South for nine hundred miles, and where the richest portion is, is not known, we may find a rich deposit and we may only make our living, we can make but little at present on account of the Rain which falls nearby every day