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Did you ever
get the views
of Santa Fe.
I should be
sorry if they
were lost.
Write without
[?] about
my wandering
and speak
your mind
plainly. I
[?] close[r?/st?]
relations and
more confidence

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the signal service office.

The railroads are slowly but
surely approaching this point;
and in a few months the whistle
of the [corn house?] will rouse
the dry bones of El Paso to life:
and great will be the astonishment
of the swarthy
Mexicanos – most of whom
have never yet seen the
"straw car", and who cannot
conjecture the nature of the
thing at all. They will soon
become accustomed to it
but I am certain they never
will get through their sluggish
minds what makes the thing
go. But little they [seek?], for they
manifest a supreme indifference
to the things which interest us.