Quindaro January 21/1858
Mr Hill
Sir yours was recived by me in this afternoons mail & with
pleasure to
here that you are all well. & furthermore I resume my pen to answer
in return
mail. in my last to you I rote a few lines in regard to the grade of the
Avinew,
we went to work & laid down a nother track & run two cars, one
drawing
the other up while the other went down & they work admirable after
that
the Company gave one hundred lots to be apropated for that purpose of
finishing
it citersons took hold of it & raise the money by assesing each one
according
to the number of [lots?] the took the whole amounting to Five thousand
Dollars,
enough to finish the Avinew & some more it is thought, & things
are
going on now very well so far. I understand that Mr [Rowell?] is on the
road
out here now & the company say that they will commence on the Levee
as soon
as he comes for they are expecting some considerable amount from him when
he
comes. The Avinew will be out [xxx] what they will do I do not know
further
than there word goes & that has not been very good as yet. but trust
they
will feel an intrist or stake soon to do something. We are about to
establish
a City charter providing the Legislator will grant it. & than thare
will
be taxes to be paid here & we shall
some revinew comeing in. Mr Hill you will be surprised to here what
pleasant
weather we are having here, the thermometer stands to day sixty degrees
above
zero, we have not had any snow since you left here in Nov - & the
average
temperature has been about thirty five degres above for six weeaks pass.
sutch
weather I never saw East. in regard to those Land [xxx] if you can get
any I
wish you to do [so?] & I will try & preempt one myself &
guess Some
one to prempt the other or manage some way to use them. I want to get
hold of
all the land I can this Spring I think I will have a good chance to sell
this
house & then my part I shall invest in land.
It is getting late I will close & write a few days a gain, one
thing more
thare was a man shot last knight about two miles from here on the
Lawerance
road, the man shot run in opposition to Chadwick as a councial man on the
Proslavery
ticket, the free state ticket was elected under the Lecompton
Constitution threwout
the Territory on about ten thousand against the said Constitution. Mr
Carpenter
fell yesterday from his building while at [sassing?] & when taken up
supposed
to be ded but thare is some hopes of his recovering
good knight write often & I will do the same I am well
Albert. C. Morton
Quindaro
Kansas
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