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Mr .Xlm .McDermott , c/o H.M.McCartney, -' Salt Lake» Utah. Dear Sir:- . Bee to acknowledge receipt- of your favor’of the 18th Inst. written?from los Yogas and note that you .-were, to start home on the following day by private conveyance that Dr.Bri eken came to thc; ranch ’ lote also the bill for services of Mr.Holt, which you enclosed m and note you have threshed t'' vat lor over with him and thirl- that this amount-:-, is ;iust. I have ordered that -it be paid an:’ as X understand it now, this pays, up to the 1st of April end from that: time on he is, to roceivo |;40 per'.month. I note what you say that'Dr .Bracken has taken hold in first ... class shape and I have no doubt but w! at lie- will make us a ' ood nan on the- ranch. flic .list--of things that you sent advising-that, they be' purchased,! wrote .you several days, ago at Salt Lake authorising you to buy them. 1 presume by this I'iPh that tP:C natter ha: beer, attended pvh- hp1- V h.P/y-'w--hp , V:h-..V' V' . ' - . . ? to. 2he garden seeds.also were purchased and mailed direct to!the ranch and I.presume were delivered by the last stage. Also 'note there is a lot of prospecting -going. on betv/.eon the • ranch and- the Colorado Ilivor anefe the prospectors :o hroiigl in some very hicdV-looMng.’ rock, and also note -that if they strike anything you expect a- big rush from lonapah down to .that vicinity. Yery respectfully yours,' v 1