Caption: Waldorf-Astoria, not New York but Goldfield, Nev.

Site Name: Las Vegas Ranch (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Letter concerns housing for railroad employees.

Caption: Home (the mixer, that mixed the mud for the adobe bricks of the house.)

Letter to his mother. He wrote about how the hotel fire was only accurately accounted in one paper. He wrote that most papers do not address the disagreeable stuff and that most of the papers disregarded the tenant housing that burned along with the hotel. He also noted that most of the papers did not even list the casualties. Second half of letter describes a shaft that he plans on descending. He also thoroughly described the building that he rents a room in.

l-r Stables, Elevated lodging house, Company office, Garden, Superintendant's house

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.