Lot 810
Office of the Contractors of the Union Pacific Railway Co., Eastern Division, printed 1863 letterhead enclosure with interesting content "…wrote the last letter while in the Army of California. I resigned from the Army one year ago. I left for N. York last February and reached Kansas last September and think I shall get as Iowa by next spring … I am now engaged in the office of the R. R. Co. heading this letter. We have some 1,000 hands to work and pay them $1.50 per day, cash, every 30 days. Very good wages for the western country. I worked T. G. Hovey for 75 cents per day when there. I now get $75 per month and boarded, some better. I am promised the 2nd train as a conductor, if I will remain on the road…", original yellow cover with "Wyandotte Kas. Dec 7" cds to Fairbanks Ioa., manuscript "Due 6c" rating; barely reduced at right, Very Fine.Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $500