Jonathan Bassett

[illegible] November the 10 1852

Dear frinds i feel rather sick & down cast to day i am not able to work & am driv out of imployment & no not whare to look on the acount of a hevey rane that has tore up over [??flower] & field over digins with water it has bin raning seven days it is still raning & how much longer it will rane no [??] can tell we ar laying two in ower cabin wating for [?fave?] wether & whare we hall go i can not tell for there is so maney [miners?] runing tue & pro for digins that the chance is rather poor to make astrike whare a man can make much som striks it & some dos not thare is the money men in this conterey to work it

the git home with som men som times makes a grate stride while others move nothing & when these men make this stride then it is may ecov about all over the world & nothing sad about them that makes nothing at the samee time about those that makes nothing this looks strange aint it is so mo me stride ; how wished myself to home still wish so think that i how missed it coming to this contrary for it is a great city like the devell shearing the hog a giting houses in room of wool & little at that i have w to you about the contrary & the folks Moses has gon south where hansey is 200 hundred nickles south of this to morning the southern obigans where he & hansey is going to mine this winter we are waiting for a letter from him we dont no dont we shall go where they are this winter we are at on stand to no what to do and where to go on what to do and we havent alone thousand in the somesituation what will you think of this it is true without money mistake flower is skarse & by 84 1/2 cents per pound & still rising but little now in town plenty of level at e.f. & 30 cents per growned butcher ya young found so that can see that a man has to mak two or three files to save one in his pocket on a 4 dollars one shovel 4 dollars pick 5 dollars howels