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native of Pa -- latterly been engaged in mining matters about that section --
148) Showers -- Shipped My Job to Washington Carson Syndicate Win $1.25 -- Wife -- Nev. Pop 52nd Anniversary of My Landing at San Francisco in '49
Tuesday Oct 1
Cloudy, with some light dust settling showers in PM & evening -- I did make out to fight my job to finish -- getting it safely packed and into the mail at 4:30 PM, duly stamped and registered -- Stamps 42 cents, registry 8 cts -- Total 50 cents and it left by evening train, directed to Hon George E Roberts, Director of the Mint Washington D.C. -- Put whole pile together with photos of Gold Hill, Gould & Curry mill, Eureka Cyanide plant -- Electrical Power House -- Truckee river, etc -- Bed 11 -- Inclosed personal 1 page letter to Roberts inclosing duplicate bills, 2 of them, for the service, $150 -- My Carson Lottery Syndicate won $1.25 on a terminal prize in the Beneficencia Lottery, drawing last Thursday, the 26th -- Paid today, cash $1.25 -- We declared dividend of 40 cts apiece, I retaining the odd 5 cts as my salary as Secretary -- We win --
Wednesday Oct 2
Variable, cloudy -- About town -- 52nd anniversary of my landing in California at San Francisco in '49 -- Sent page letter to wife by evening train -- Bed 11 --
The International Yacht Race -- McKinley Mines, Nevada 1901 -- The Big Old Hoss Chestnut Tree of My Boyhood Destroyed -- Wife -- J P Jones vs Evan Williams
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Thursday Oct 3
Same -- cool -- Columbia won today the 2nd heat in the great international yacht race at N.Y. -- 3 more heats -- Bed 11 --
Friday Oct 4
Same -- Odd jobs -- Wife forwarded me copy of Plymouth OC Memorial of Sept 28, from which I clipped [clipping] Remembering and thinking of that old tree, as only I can, this feels to me like vandalism -- "children continuously pelting it in the autumn to get the chestnuts" is such a damned old chestnut that it should have become forgivingly endurable by this time -- Oh! I would like to have been present with potent ability to sing: "Woodman, spare that tree, touch not a single bough, In youth it sheltered me, and I'll protect it now" Evening about town, Bed 11 --
Saturday Oct 5
Same -- light sprinkles of rain, but not enough to lay the dust -- Bed 11
Sunday Oct 6
Clear & very fine -- Letter from and to wife -- Bed 11
150) After Bert Crawford -- Col Monroe -- Hay Fever -Tonopah Butler -- Hertig Let Out -- New Jacket Office Sold -Chris Batterman Dead --
Monday Oct 7
Clear, warm & pleasant -- By evening train sent crisp letter to R R Crawford of Reno Ledger for the $13.50 he owes me -- Met and had long talk with
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my old Reno and Comstock friend Col Monroe, of the surveying and engineering department -- left him at the Arlington at 12 & to bed --
Tuesday Oct 8
Same -- Evening met Jas L Butler, the Tonopah discoverer just up from San F, on his way back to the mines -- Also met Col Eugene B Monroe again this evening -- doing some ranch surveying, north of town -- Bed 11 -- Joe Pete, the murdering Indian desperado of Douglas county, who killed Will Dangberg, near Gardnerville about a year ago, and last week killed his own father in law, was shot and assassinated by his own brother last night near Markleeville -- so that ends the Joe Pete episode --
Wednesday Oct 9
Same -- Col Monroe got through with his surveying job and went home to Reno by evening train -- I sent brief note to wife inclosing 5 line clipping from evening News saying Chris Batterman died at Butte, Montana yesterday morning -- Bed 11 -- Hay fever bothers me considerably --
Big Snowshed Fire and Late Train -- Nevada Peaches -- 1901 Tonopah Butler Off -- Total Comstock Product -Catfish Dinner --Franklin Leonard -- Grand Army Campfire etc --
Thursday Oct 10
Same -- Train nearly 4 hours late, not arriving till 2 PM -- Fire destroying the RR station at Blue canyon on the Sierra, together with half a mile of snowsheds yesterday was cause -- Jas L Butler left for his mines at
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Tonopah by this train, from here -- counted my M.S.S. 25 pages on Comstock job and made it about 7,500 words without the two tables, A and B -- assts & divs and Total product of Comstock --
Total product from ores $350,249,940,45 Total mill tailings added $ 17,763,863,16 Grand total to Jan 1, 1901 $368,013,803,61
Had fried catfish dinner today -- Mr & Mrs Robert were over at Washoe Lake yesterday & caught over 400, so gave me 9 -- got them cooked, dined at Johnny Anderson's restaurant -- Bed 11
Friday Oct 11
Same -- California peaches are about played out in the market and Nevada peaches are taking their place -- Bought some very fine ones today, from Mrs Raycrofts orchard, Genoa, Carson valley -- The GAR veterans, Custer Post, Carson, held a big campfire, ball and supper at Armory Hall this evening -- was invited but didn't go -- Franklin Leonard, Pres't & Supt on Comstock Tunnel Co in town today -- we met & affiliated -- just returned from New York -- gave him some Comstock product figures -- Bed 11 --
152) Return -- PO Registry -- Chris Batterman Death Wife & 2 Papers -- The GAR Ball -- Quickest Trip -George Roberts With $150.00!!! Wife $5 -- Hair Cut!!! Bobbie Lindsay in Reno
Saturday Oct 12
Same -- Recd ticket from general Postoffice -- Washington being receipt for my package of the 1st -- week ago last Tuesday -- to Director of the Mint, Geo
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E Roberts -- Brief time transmission and return -- Got 1/2 column obituary item on Chris Batterman's death in News, and sent 2 copies with page letter to wife -- this evening's mail --
Sunday Oct 13
Same -- Bed 11
Monday Oct 14
Same -- PM visited the new Appeal office and gave editorial on Chris Batterman, I clipped from the SL Tribune, to go in tomorrow morning's paper -- Bed 12
Tuesday Oct 15
Same -- Recd by todays mail letter from Hon Geo F Roberts, Director of the Mint, Washington, a US Treasury note, No 200,455, for $150.00 -- It was directed to Alfred Doten Esq -- care, Superintendent of the US Mint Carson City Nevada, but I received it at PO direct -- See last end of this book, Roberts' letter -- I also recd letter from wife, with $5 greenback -- Bed 11 -- She says Bobbie Lindsay is in Reno -- Hair cut today --
Will W Booth -- SL Tribune -- I visit the Comstock -- 1901 150 -- Bishop Whitaker -- John Washington
Wednesday Oct 16
Same -- Got brief letter from Will W Booth, Tonopah, about politics, Jones, etc -- PM & evening I wrote a 4 page letter to send to the Tribune -- Bed 1
Thursday Oct 17
Variable -- Took AM train to Va -- Most of passengers got off at Mound House
