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Well-written and very legible letter notable for the detail given on a prospective gold mining project. After the usual lament about lack of news, Parrott relates that he "bought into a company which are commencing extensive mining operations at that place and the prospect for this time bids fair for a good summers work... In the first place the company 50 in number have dug a race the whole length of the bar or flat directly in front of the town and about 100 rods long - and as deep as the bed rock and now intend to work out the whole bar - you can imagine what amount of labor it will require when I inform you that about three acres of this bar is to [be] turned over and before we reach the gold about 8 feet of top soil will have to be removed..."