Letter discusses the need for a new house-keeper and cook at the Las Vegas Ranch. Smith addresses the problems with hiring a woman and suggests hiring a Chinese man.
Rinker discusses photographs taken in Nevada during his mining years and his planned autobiography. Also mentions artifacts that were moved to Scotty's Castle ((Death Valley National Park).
Left to right: Paul Harrington, Leslie H. Smith, John Harrington, Dorothy Snider and Vincent Harrington around a lemonade stand in the summer of 1932. Two automobiles in the background. The children are on the west side of the 500 block of Second Street with a row of the railroad cottages on the opposite side of the street. Leslie H. Smith was born in Las Vegas in 1927 and lived at 624 South 6th Street. Sixty-four railroad cottages were built by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad.