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very fine cook, all of which confirms your estimate of her. He will 
be home on Saturday. 
We have a good comfortable house, old, but in good con¬ 
dition* The other buildings were none toe good and have built 
a tig earn and chiefterihouse and nil soon have the test equipped 
outfit in this section, we are far from being settled, all my books 
are packed in their boxes and stacked in our sitting room and we 
have lust enough furniture to get along with, but rill be better 
off when we have the rest of the work going smoothly. It is a big 
jote. 
In a country like this -"inch as no gravel, roads are 
very poor and the ordinary county road is nor almost impas;-a'ble, 
but there are many main highways which ate macad&ned and we are 
fortunate in feeing on one of these- ’f’hen there are the great high¬ 
ways, concrete, which form the main arteries of travel. All last 
summer they -ere finishing the last of the Pacific Highway in Wash¬ 
ington and we had to travel 37 miles of detour. It was opened in 
October arid they had a great celebration with delegates from Oregon, 
Washington,^ California and B. 0 . and buried "Old Man Detour'with 
appropriate ceremonies, dropping the body from the Interstate Bridge 
between Portland and Vancouver. A day or two ago the effigy was 
picked up on the beach at San Diego. Some traveller, the old man* 
This is a very self-centered letter, all about c arselves, 
but you once told me you enjoyed details and I am endeavoring to 
give you pleasure, ^he < nlv other thing which I might mention which 
may tee of interest to you is that while in P. a few days ago I 
noticed the girls still wear short skirts and put white powder on 
their noses and red on their cheeks.We wish you all the blessings 
of Christmas and good health for the coming year. 
Very sincerely yours, 
(l Jflshubvy]. 
