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| Siloam Spring Benton Co., Ark Oct 5, 1889 Dear Brother I set myself to drop you a few lines. I recv'd your kind letter & was glad to hear from you. I have got sickness in my family Jane & Bell has got the typhoid fever. They have been sick nearly one month & is mighty low. They can't sit up any yet. I am not well but I just have the chills. I had a chill last nite. I ain't picked any cotton. Well James, W.H. is well satisfied. He has got his house about up and has got a good farm & he has roof for his famly & he has to stand(?) United States Court on a murder case next Monday. I ain't got much to write. Crops is good. Wheat is worth 50 to 60, corn is worth 20 to 25, oats 15 to 20 and cattle is cheap. I can buy yoke of cattle that is unbroke for$20. Everything is cheap but they is no money to buy with. The people don't try to make money, they could if they would try. All they want is plenty to eat. I expect I will move over in the State this fall. I have got me a gob of work over there. It is the best land here I ever looked at. They raise from 35 to 50 bushels of corn and one new ? grain to the acre. All of Bill McCayes people is doing well. You said Pap had him some good brandy. You can go over next Sunday and tell Pap to give you a drink for me and you can drink it at 11 o'clock & it will do me some good. James I would write more but I feel mighty poorly this morning so write soon. G. W. Cook to James J. Cook |