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2 columns in good style, barring blunders -- Bert Crawford paid me $1.50 for my correspondence in the Reno Ledger of Feb 2 this PM and I sent another letter this evening to the Ledger -- Bed 11 -- cloudy & freezing hard --

Friday Feb 8

Same -- cold, wintry & disagreeable -- Each House of the Legislature held short AM sessions and adjourned till Monday at the usual hour -- Bed 12 -- very cold & gloomy with light snow falling -- Rec'd today through the Post office, two copies of Report of Director of the Mint on Gold & Silver Production of the United States for 1899, with my Comstock report in it -- These were direct to me from Washington -- I find that the other copy I got day before yesterday was from Colcord of this Mint here -- He received half a dozen and put that one into the Post office for me --

Very Cold Snap -- Salt Lake Tribune
Weather Stations -- Garnerville Record -- 1901
My First Fly -- Coldest -- Below Zero

Saturday Feb 9

Variable -- more sunshine -- PM was busy writing up newspaper correspondence -- Evening cleared off very cold -- Bed at 12 -- Arlington thermometer showed 8° above zero -- coldest I have seen this winter at that time of night -- The first fly of the year (or century) crawled out of a crack and put in his appearance on my window sill in the morning sunlight -- He acted very