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Our claim has been paying very light
of late, and we have fallen much
behind our expences [expenses], yet we hope to be
able to retrieve our losses in time, we
have good prostects [prospects] if any way can
be devised to work where we have obtained
them Our main tunnell [tunnel] proves to be thirty
feet too high and we are about to run a
slope to the lower ground to do which
we shall have to rent some machinery
either a horse power or steem [steam] engine to
hoist the dirt and pump water. I think
our ground is good, but many difficulties
imped [impede] the working of it Patient perseverance
may in time surmount evry [every] difficulty
and to that end we must look for the
reward of our laibor [labor] Had we the benefit
of society and its appertinances [appurtenances] we might
wait in contentment allowing the eye to grow dim
by the miners taper and age to stride on without
regret; but deprived of this great boon what
wonder one feels impatient, an ameless [aimless] life!
buried from the world in life whilst living! with
hardly a friend to perform the office if dead
Still the miner has many golden hopes trancient [transient]
it maybe, yet they are the straws they cling to
I am glad you are about to get an appointment
at the Prison it is a good place to make money
and light work I should like a place there