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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Aug. 29
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, Aug. 29
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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Description
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Handwritten 10 page letter from Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, "Since I am way off here 'measly 100 miles from nowhere'..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-020d
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Transcription
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and throw water on the walls and floor so they can breathe. Why people live or try to live in such a region I cannot imagine when there are better places to be found on the face of the earth.
By storing the water that falls during the rainy season or summer the people are enabled to water the land over limited areas sufficiently to raise crops and in some places even to make things look cheery. At a point 12 or 15 miles west of Cordoba there is a dam across a that is at least 100 feet high and that forms a lake 3x7 miles in extent when full. A little below this dam is where Mr. McCrosky is supervising the construction of an immense electrical station that is to furnish power in Cordoba. Will tell you more about this and many other things when I come home. There is too much to tell it all in letters even if I had the time to write longer letters and oftener.
I had thought some of driving about 33 miles to Dean Fumes on the other railroad where there is a daily train, but the people here seem to think I am rich. They only want $50. to make the drive. I will see them in — well in the miserable locality where they are at present before. I will pay so much. Would pay $16. or $18. but no more.
Will finish writing this letter when I return to Car
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Rights
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