Brother,

It has been very cold here all day. And so cold in the mountains that they have not sent us as much wood as we expected. But we have had a splendid run. I think about 650 cords with four men on the flume and every stick in the yard. We have the south dump as full as we can get it and have piled enough so that we have room to dump tomorrow on the timber dump. I went to Reno as soon as I received your dispatch telling me that I could put Hi Wa men at work if I could get them. I found that the men that I was after went to Empire yesterday but little Sam says that he will be here tomorrow with 20 men and perhaps 25. There was six men come from Carson today & a dispatch from Quong King that he will send ten more tomorrow & that will be enough unless he can send better men. Three of the men that came here have been sent away from here, but we will try them once more, and if they will work that is all we want and if they won't wash, will send them away again. If we get the twenty from Reno and the ten from Carson we are all right.

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