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but does not go much on the present day and generation. I have seen 
the help of the Pacific which has been brought so prominently before 
the world since the war, as a source of potash to take take the 
place of the German deposits which are now unavailable. There are 
great beds of this all along this coast and some in the Sound. This 
ma$r some day be a source of paper, for a prominent editor of Seattle 
told me some years ago that there were at least 500 men working on 
the problem of converting it into paper. This ^ar will be the cause 
of bringing a great many ne^ materials into common use. That is the 
only good which I see can be evolved from it. I dont know what it 
is all about. It is snowing hard and has gained about an inch since 
I began this. It is very soft and wet, but the temperature is fall¬ 
ing steadily and there seems no chance of rain. It is dreadfully 
wearing on one. I have lust sent Phil out to sound the snow. He took 
half a dozen measurements with an average of about 3 ft. 2 ins. 
And this is March 5. It makes me too nervous to write. 
Verv trulv vours. 
