Letter to his mother. Letter discusses family, how different this Christmas season was from the last, and the soldiers that are in town who are at every gambling hall gambling because they never had a chance to before.

Letter to his mother. Rinker told his mother not to worry about him working in the mines. He explains how above ground work is safe and below ground work is where it is dangerous.

C.A. Earle Rinker's reminiscences of mining and assaying life in Goldfield, Nevada, in the first decade of the 1900s. He recalls two different shootings, drilling contests, water use by the local hotels and a 1907 influenza epidemic.