Agent


               						Pledger, Texas, April 18th 1917

Llano del Rio Co,
			Llano, Cal.

Dear Comrades:

		I enclose money order for $10.00 to apply on

my shares, which is all I can possibly spare at this time.

		Answering your letter of 13th, I assure you I am

for the Colony, heart and soul, and my wife is equally enthusiastic,

we are striving in every way possible to save our earnings, so that

we may increase our payments on Colony shares.  We are practicing

rigid economy, working like slaves to raise a garden, with

an unequal struggle against a severe drouth, in order to reduce

the cost of living.     We have property worth twice what it would

require to put us in the Colony, and have been trying every way

to turn it into cash, but so far without success.  We would

willingly and gladly sacrifice everything we have, to get into

the Colony, and live in a tent, until you saw fit to provide

us a house.  I notice old comrade Copley was wise enough to stay

in out of the storm.  I told him when I was there, that he would

be glad to get back.  Count on us, we will surely make some turn

that will land us in the Colony before the end of the year, and we

expect to bring others with us.

                  								Fraternaly yours

								                  [J.N. Gaddis]