earned and where it has gone.  I know you can do better with it than I can and I am not afraid to send all my earnings to my darling.  I just keep account of my checks I send, that is all.  I trust the balance to my dear beloved and true love.  I would do the same if I got a thousand per month. 
"That is more than a good many of the men here does, as they say their wives spends it for foolishness and that they would be deeper in the hole than ever if they sent it home to let them do as they liked with. 
"But I sure do appreciate my dear love, bless your dear sweet heart, you can't be beat for a help mate and I do thank the Lord for the gift of such a treasure as you are dearest love XOXO.  God will reward you dearest.  Blessed are the poor, for they shall see God.  I love to work and send the money to my pet.  I get in all the time possible so as to get as large a check as I can.  I have not missed a chance yet, although I have worked in much pain some times.  I was very thankful I could endure it and held down the job. 
"My job is not a hard one, only at times when we are short on dirt or plaster, as it is called raw plaster, just as it comes from the crusher to the lines and if we are short of ground rock as that is what it is, then it makes us very hard for a hour and we get so wet with sweat that we have to be careful not to catch cold.  I and Lyle have all the upper floor to take care of seven lines to look after, three kettle bines, 3 finishing, 2 bur bines, 3 elevators to care for and all the machinery on the floor to oil and care for, the floor to sweep from 2 tons 4 times during a shift of eight hours and some times many other things to do.  And then we have lots of time to spare and to visit around the mill.  It is a very dusty job that is the worst of it.  I have to wash out socks about every other day.  Although we have plenty of them our shoes get full of the gyp dirt or ground rock. 
"Well, I have not received the packet yet, so can't tell you how I like the clothes, but I don't think Lyle needs any.  He has plenty, in fact I did not need any overalls nor jumpers, but I appreciate them and your kindness just the same.  I will keep them for best to slip on when I am off shift.  I will have plenty of clothes to last me for some time, but I may have to get a thin shirt or two when it gets warm weather. 
"Lyle said he had written to you and sent you his money.  I will run over to the mill and see him and find out how much he sent.  bye, bye OXOXX.......hello, I am back.  well, Lyle says he sent you ten dollars in a letter, green back, and he says there are five dollars in silver in those coveralls that Vendon took of his, so he can just give it to you if he finds it in them.  His check was 30.67.  I don't know what he did with the balance. 
"Well, he said he just got a letter from Miss Truman and she told him she got in a snowdrift that was three feet and six inches deep and could hardly get out.  How do you get around, dear, in the snow so deep?  Why it is just like spring here now, it is so warm in the tent I can't stay in it.  They tell me they will plant their melons in about ten days now down here and that they will be all ripe and gone by the last of June.  They tell me that the weather gets very hot here in about a month.  so I will have to find some place to stay besides a tent. 
"Well, I guess you have all you can do to keep warm, don't you deary.  I would like to be there to bunk with you.  I think I could keep you warm, don't you dear.  I am better than I have been for a long time.  My face is just round.  The boss told me that I were getting better and younger every day.  I don't suppose you would know me now if I were to walk in, dear.  some of the men that left here soon after I come here come back and they did not know me.  But that fat will soon go when it gets warm weather, because I sweat so much.  Well, the whistle blew for noon, so I guess I must go to dinner and finish when I get back.  bye, bye, hun.... Back from dinner, Well it is pretty warm today.  The sun is real hot.  It seems queer that it is so warm here such a short distance from you and it so cold there.  Dry and dusty here and is now croths deep to a tall squaw over there.  I sent a letter to Lawrence and few days ago.  I guess he is still at Deeth, isn't he?  Well, Lagon, the quarry foreman got fired and a man named Dick Levett put in his place.  Vendon knows him.  They make lots of changes here all the time.  I can't see their idea for so doing.
"Well, dear, now many chick did you get from your sitting and what did you do with the little pigs?  Well, you just have a busy time, dear, over there, so cold and snowy and so bad a cold.  I should like to be there to help you.  Well, I must close as there is so many talking I can't write.  So long dear.  Hope to hear from you soon, but I don't expect you to write very often.  So don't weary about writing, but I like to hear from you as well as I ever did.  With much love I close.  Lovingly yours, J.U.C.  OXO"

He wrote to his wife again, from Hupton, NV, 2-27-23,
"Lyle just went to work this a.m. as he has been sick with the flu, but not very bad as he was up every day, he just lost 3 days and I got them, so in fact we did not lose anything as I have been working double shifts, his and mine also.  So you see I have put in two sixteen hours shifts and one seventeen.  I feel much better this a.m. than I did when I wrote you last.. 
"Well dear, I am sending you our checks.  They are small, but better than I expect, one of $27.75, one $4.00 and Lyle's of $21.00, making a total of $52.75.  I just received a letter from Lawrence.  He is well.  Many thanks for the things you sent dear.  Yes, I think they are nice, but the overalls are so too much long, I only wear 33-31 and those are 34-34, but I can turn them up so they will be OK.  Well, what is Pearleau doing, do you think I had better have him come down?  I think I can get him on now. 
"I do hope you keep well.  Yes, dear, you have had a tough time of it.  I should have been there to have helped you darling.  I am sorry you have such a hard life of it.  Do hope you have a good rest now.  Try to take the best care of your self you can, dear.  Give my love to all and accept much your self, praying our Father in Heaven to bless you.  I close with the best of wishes to you my dear, loving darling OOXXOOX, your ever loving husb., J.U. Coleman XXX"

Lawrence Marries
Lawrence, now going by the name, Buck, was working in Sunnyside, Utah, in March of 1923, and kept moving around, odd-jobbing in different places.  He married Velma Hattie Thurston, on Aug. 28, 1923.  Their first child, Cloyd Lawrence, was born Nov. 12, 1924, in Enterprise.  In July 29, 1925, he had moved to Hupton, working in a sawmill.  When Betty Sue was born on Jan. 9, 1928, they were in Mesquite, Nevada.  Ruby followed on the day after Christmas in 1932, in Fallon, Nevada.
Then they moved to California, where they logged in the mountains and worked in the valley produce fields.  Donald D. was born Feb. 16, 1938, in Sacramento and Carl LeRoy on Aug. 1, 1940 in Sacramento.

Lyle Marries the Same Year
Lyle, working at Hupton, met and married a storekeeper's daughter, Dallas Woodbury, on June 2, 1924.  She was the step sister of Lawrence's wife, Velma.  Their first child, Max Lyle, was born June 7, 1925 in Mesquite, Nevada.  They were living in Arden, Nevada, when second son, Lester Vern was born on Mar. 4, 1927.  Then Max was killed in an automobile accident in Arden on Jan. 27, 1929.  Son, Fred Von Roy, was born Nov. 27, 1935, after they had moved to Los Angeles, California.

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