Chicago, Jany 7th, 1894

Mr. J. J. McClelland

Dear Sir,

I wrote you a long letter yesterday. Have laid awake part of the night. I say again I am troubled greatly over the turn this affair has taken. I wanted to suggest in my letter, but forgot it, that you leave all work on the Big Bonanza to the last, and next to the last, I would start a place for a shaft on the Bullion Den. You will remember you marked on a paper which I have a place for a shaft over the line of the Bullion Den from the present shaft on the B.B. and west from the shaft, and you said the vein or seam dipped that direction, and we agreed that a shaft sunk there would strike the vein, and the 2 shafts could be connected by tunnel. So I would work with that in view, if you believe there is ore on B. Den. Of course you will keep away in all work from the Young shaft on the B.B.

But after all, I don’t see anything but trouble, a long wait, and money wanted often. And I am discouraged. If you could have gotten old Young’s deeds to the B.B. I saw how I could... [page 2]

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