Chicago, Feb. 27th, 1870
Dear Brother & Sister,
I received your letter in due time but have not had the
opportunity to answer it until now, for I can assure you that I have been very
busy for the past two weeks and I have been about half sick with a cold in my
head and the children the same and Winnie is very bad with it yet.
I have not been able to go see about your saw mill as yet,
but will in a day or two, and it would be of no use for me to even talk of such
an arrangement as you proposed in your letter for I have got all I can attend
to at present, and the prospect is that I will have more this summer. I have just completed another large sawing
machine for to cut box lumber. I think
by the middle of the week I shall have it in operation. And I have got two or three other machines in
contemplation which I am bound to put through this spring. And I also have my house to finish which will
be worth about three thousand dollars, perhaps more. And so you see that I have room for you all. The morning that I can command for some time
although I may be one of the lucky ones and have fortune ___ me some of those
dogs. If I do, I will let you know but
as it is now I can’t do anything for you.
But it seems to me that you might advertise in one of the papers here under
the heading of Business Chances for someone to take hold of such an enterprise,
and I think if the inducements are what you represent them to be, you would
have no trouble in getting a person that would be all right to take hold with
you.
Whenever you get ready to get a mill you will let me know
and I will get you one of these new saws with inverted teeth which are far superior
to all others to saw all kinds of hard timber.
And also you had better run a double mill, that is one saw above another. Say the bottom saw 52 or 54 in. and the upper
saw 30 or 32 in. and you will cut any log you will be able to get in the mill
and do better work with it. And by all
means have a bull wheel to turn over the logs for it saves a great deal of hard
labor. And in regard to the water wheel
you can get them here that are all right, which will give you plenty of power. And if you want them let me know and I will
see the parties about them. And in the
meantime I am going over this week and perhaps they can send you some circulars
with all the information required.
I must close for the present in love to you all, hoping that
this may find you all well as this leaves us all with a bad cold.
Yours truly,
Edwin
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