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Sunday Feb 3

Variable -- About 7 inches new snow on the ground this morning -- Excellent sleighing and some sleighing parties out during the day -- PM wrote 4 page correspondence & mailed it to SF Chronicle on evening train -- Bed 12 -- cloudy and freezing hard --

Monday Feb 4

Variable and snowstorming in the PM and evening -- Big sleighing all day -- Thermom at 10[degrees] above zero in early morning -- Sent brief note to Geo I Lamy of Gardnerville Record in AM about my correspondence -- Legislature held AM & PM sessions, transacting a goodly amount of business -- I reporting as usual -- Getting down to their work -- At close of PM session 3:30 PM I wrote a 4 page letter to wife & sent it off by evening train -- Evening as usual -- met George Fryer, from Dayton, up on private business -- affiliated -- Bed at 12 -- 8 inches snow and still snowing lightly -- The Vanderbilts & Co have bought out the Huntington & other old originators & owners of the SP or main continental railroad and own it & all connections -- Grandest railroad transaction on record --

Over a foot of Snow -- I in Salt Lake Tribune -- 1901
My Govt Comstock Write up Received from Washington

Tuesday Feb 5

Snowstorming & wintry -- Much snow fell in the AM -- Over one foot of snow