Nov 20th /65
		   Sag. City
     Dear brother we recieved
your letter in due time and
was glad to hear from
you I hope your boy may be
spared to you and that
the kind hand of providence
will prosper him through
life We are well at present
and enjoy ourselves as well
as usual Things are good
here this fall I am still
working in the shingle
mill We have very fine
weather here this fall. and
a good chance to improve
it Joseph in regard to
the note held by Mr Glines
I think you had better not
buy it untill I come out

there I will pay you
what interest you have 
in the note and perhaps
the whole of it but I
must pay my honest debts
first then I am going to 
     that
pay ^ [crossed out] [that you may think
srange strange.] Now I will
give you the price of produce
as near as I can    Apples
from wagon from $1-50 to
$1-75 potatoes about 37 cts
butter 45 cts per lb lb,
and egges 45 cts per dozen
If you see Thomas this
week or the first of next
I wish you would tell
him to write and let 
me know whether he has
caught those furs for me
or not tell him to write
soon or I shall not get
it as we are comeing out there

        soon I must close 
for I expect to see you
soon then I can tell you
much which to night my
pen refuses to do give our
love to all
		C F Hayes
J G Bamber
	       Nov 25th
Joseph I wish you would
tell Tom to that I
want him to answer
the letter which I have
written to him if he has
recieved it Tell him to
write soon or I shall
not get it before we come 
out there I think we will
come in about two weeks
We are well to night
In Paine and Rights lumber
shanty were nine persons
poisoned to death a drinking

tea beware O ze tea topers
I must close or I shall
be to late to mail
it to night good bye
for the present
	C F H

Mr Joseph S Bamber
Highland 
Oakland Co.
[Penciled in] [1865-11-20]
Mich