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Wintry -- Only 4[degrees] above zero -- More Snow -- 1901
Sleighing -- 6 pages to Gardnerville Record
6 pages to SL Tribune -- Wife with $15
Chris Batterman in Carson

Friday February 1, 1901

Variable, wintry, light snow flirting through the air most of the day, variated with occasional warm sunshine -- PM I wrote correspondence for Salt Lake Tribune at al -- Bed 12 -- clear & cold as last night -- 15[degrees] above zero --

Saturday Feb 2

Variable, pleasant -- cold -- Rose at 6 and wrote a correspondence, 6 pages, & sent it to Gardnerville Record by morning mail at 10:30 -- PM fixed up similar dose & sent it to the Salt Lake Tribune by evening mail -- Got letter from wife with $15 -- Evening about town a little -- snowing and cold -- Bed at 12 -- 6 inches and still snowing -- Met Chris Batterman at the Arlington this morning -- He didn't know me -- hadnt seen me for several years -- He much altered but I knew him. Just back from Mason valley and his copper mines -- didn't say where or when he was going next, & I saw no more of him -- Thermometer stood at 4[degrees] above zero this morning, so Charley Friend says -- A few sleighs were out yesterday on the street, but sleighing didn't amount to much, and no good today --

20 -- Good Sleighing -- SF Chronicle 4 pages -- Queen
More Snow Wintry-- 10[degrees] above z -- Geo I Lamy Reporting
Legislature -- 4 page letter to wife -- Sime Ogg
George Fryer -- Great Change in CP Railroad Proprietorship

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catslover

Should "flirting" be "flitting"?

Special Collections

In the original diary it does appear to be "flirting." He was being poetic, it seems!