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Dec. fiiiiD2. § Mr .'7m.McDermott, c/o H.M.. cCartney, • Salt lake,. Utah.. 'Dear Slip - . ’ I keg to acknov/le&ge receipt of your valued favor of the 15th frorr Los Vegas, contents carefully noted, which refers to various nat­ters , and among others your trip home. On receipt of same, I wired you last night as follows;- "Advise leave man in charge, and go home for Christmas, ’.’.ill •. rite Salt “kkewhich J now confirm.. Inasmuch as you have finished the surveying ckd got things generally in pretty good shape, I do not see any reason why you sho;*Id not spend Christmas with your family. ' I also have your letter enclosing.list of things that should he furnished to the ranch, consisting If tools, hardware, lumber,etc. fhe question of lumber will, be a very expensive item to get it fro- here to the end of the road and haul from there. Are there no saw mills any ’frhere in the- country near by w/here you could get what lumber you would require? I don’t know just what 7. .a, wants to do on. the ranch and how much expense he.wants to' go to in fitting up at this time, and will find this, out verg soon and let you know. In the mean time we will have to ... get along the best we can 'v;it> what tools, etc. we have on hand. Mr-. T/hittemore wrote me a few days since that h*. was going to ; iocho' to look up the title to the ranch and I presume the matter will be settled in a ver, short time, hken it is turned over we will have to get- .some one to look -fter it. Have not succeeded in getting any one here that I would care to send out. I do not think we want McWilliams. JVy idea is to have a mar, and his wife. 2he mar would take hold and work on the