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Friday May 22

Clear & pleasant, but cool -- Ice froze an 1/8 of an inch thick in various parts of the city -- Around lively today, & got up good mining report -- Got through at 1 oclock tonight -- Bed at 2 --

Off for Reno -- Olives -- Goodie Sick

Saturday May 23

Clear & pleasant -- The colonel's wife & children came up from Carson this morning, so he was with them most of the day -- Evening he went to Carson with them -- Jim Townsend did, the telegraphic for him tonight -- I worked as usual -- Through at 1 1/2 -- Bed at 3 -- cold --

Sunday May 24

The same -- Rose at 6:30, shaved and at 8 AM left on train for Reno -- Took along dirty clothes, etc, and a 2 quart candy jar which I got filled with olives yesterday at Hatch Bros -- Finest kind of Queen olives Spanish imported -- 4 bits a quart -- Found all right at Reno except Goodie -- She had worms, or a cold, or something similar -- very feverish dull & sleepy -- The young ones as well as the old ones pitched into the olives lively, for we are all very fond of them -- PM

Powning -- Ogden ticket Back to Va Wife Goodie worse

down town awhile with Alf and Sam -- Was down town in the evening after supper, alone -- at the RR depot when trains came from Va and the East -- Met Powning --

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