Dear Chas:-
It's practically settled and if I am well and hearty on the 8th WE START. We can't do otherwise very well for the company has done so nicely for us. I'll send you Mr. Plough's letter so that you can see about the trip. I cannot send it today because I have not digested it, but they are treating us very well. He says he will contact all of their agents along the route and have them provide for our entertainment which is quite an item. They have sent us a lot of extra parts and two fine wheels, which ought to be worth $50.00 when the trip is over.
I completed arrangements with the PI today for one letter a week as long as is satisfactory to both of us at $3.00 a column.
Turner and I also have another cash scheme which we think will help pay expenses as we go, and of it I'll write you when we have seen how it works; it's neither hay forks nor clothes wringers; guess again.
Turner has been here today. Goes back tonight and comes over Saturday pm (June 6)
I am feeling much better, even the thought of the trip brightens me up and gives me an appetite. Plough wants Turner and I to get our photographs taken just as we expect to travel. Says he wants to use it for advertising purposes. Do you think it advisable to let them scatter my photograph through the country ala Lydia E. Pinkham? I am going to get them taken and will send you one any day. We shall strike Missoula, Livingston and either Butte or Helena. From my cards you will be able to catch us there about right with letters probably.
I am going to write home today or tomorrow telling them of our CHANGE of program, for they would soon catch it in full from the papers.
No more tonight.
Will
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