South Cucamonga
Jan. 3rd, 1889
Dear Louise,
It was with great pleasure we received your kind letter and
presents and I now hasten to acknowledge them before it gets put off to a more
convenient season.
Marion was not at home.
She is spending the Christmas and New Years in Cucamonga and I do not
expect her home till Sunday but I will answer for her. She will be very much pleased as we all are. There is a letter from Arthur here so he must
not expect an answer very soon.
I was very sorry to hear of Olive sickness. I hope her trip east has done her good. It seems so strange that she should make the
first move to leave home and then go so far.
I hope you all will be able to get settled in a warmer climate soon not
but what you will have something to contend with. Go where you will, it is not all smooth
sailing. I am content with this climate
but yet there are many drawbacks. It is
expensive starting and there is no return till the third or fourth year. If we can fight for the time in the fifth
year we will be able to clear 150 dollars an acre on vines alone and then we shall
be able to make our friends a visit. We
have not made much headway because Mr. G. has done all himself: cleared the land,
lakes bush and wood off without a team.
You know he never was a good horseman.
He has cleared about 12 nacres.
Now that we are going to put in vines this spring we want a new wire
fence and he will be writing to you ___ soon to see about property selling in
H. I am afraid we are too late with
that. We should have sold when the boom
was on but then we had no idea of your thinking of leaving your homestead and
now I want to.
That Arthur mentioned about some photographs that was taken
at the wedding. We have not received
them and if we knew when they were sent we could make enquires for them. If you
cannot send us any to keep send us them to look at and we will return
them. We have not heard from Olive since
she was married but when you write tell her I should like to know how she likes
and are the mosquitoes bigger than in Minn. And she may as well correspond with two
families in Cal as one.
We are going to send the folks a few raisons as soon as we
can. Mr. Wall sent some to Pen and when
he gets time Luke is going to send some and they will be both in one package
___ ___ a hundred weight between us. I
hope you will get them all right. They
have not gone yet.
Mr. W is getting up potatoes and he is building a new house
for two bachelors that have settled about two miles from here, so it keeps him
busy.
We are having a splendid winter. We have had more rain this season than any
before since we came, and very little wind.
We had a heavy front last week.
Killed the tomato vines but we have plenty to be going. I think in the south you will have earlier vegetables
and fruit than we have. I fancy we are
only a month earlier than you are in many things. We have a neighbor here. He thinks he would like to go to LA. He wants to be where there is green grass
all the year and you might send us a Louisiana paper sometimes. He would come to see the place first. He would have some means. He is very hard working and no bad habits –
but more about that when you go there and see how you like it.
Tell your Pa that we receive the papers very regularly and
they do me a world of good. I hope they
will still continue to come. I hope he does
not suffer with his leg as much as he used to.
If so, gather up the sticks and take your chances in a warmer
place. I have got so much to say that
it is impossible for me to write any way decent. If I live to see you all once more you will
have to prepare yourselves for a volcano for my tongue will rattle on faster
than my pen.
How does Frank like being left all alone as he got a girl
__. Tell him they are very scarce in
this part – but there is luck in leisure and did no one like the chance of Leap
Year. I think for all I hear, Arthur has
got me. Is that so? Well, Winfred, I suppose he has grown so much
I would not know him. Oh, I am sure I
will forget Robbie and his son. Give my
love to him and kiss the boy from me.
I must now conclude with best love to all, Ma, George and
___.
From your ____,
M A _____
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