Wallula Business College
Edwin S. Blank, President
Book-keeping, Shorthand, and Typewriting Taught
Wallula, Washington 

Edwin S. Blanke 
Pearce, Arizona 
February 24, 1912 

Mr. Theodore L. Blanke
618 Fulton St. 
Wausau, Wisconsin 

Dear Brother Theodore:- 

We are cooped up out here. Last night and this forenoon, it snowed at least six 
inches or more, but this afternoon it's thawing out fast. That will make the 
green grass come, and soften up the ground for plowing. 

Kid, I wish you would make an awful effort and raise $30 about the 29th or the 
first so I could buy those burrows, $25 and $5. I'd have left to buy feed grain,
etc. I rented the pasture on the homestead for $15 for three months. He will pay
next month sometime when he starts to pasture it. If you could send the $30 
about the 29th or shortly after, you wouldn't have to send more until April, 
when we ought to, by all means, fence the desert. I probably could have gotten 
more than $15 for the pasture from the cattle Co., but I doubt if the 2-wire 
fence would hold them & then, too, the watering of them. Now I have nothing to 
do with fence or water. 

Yesterday afternoon, I and everybody else that possibly could, stayed in the 
house because the wind was boss of the road. You couldn't see half a city block 
in either direction. Windmills is the only thing it blows over, though. No wind 
today. I killed a rabbit in the engine house the other day and had a big supper 
on him. I just got through posting up my books before starting this letter and 
had to laugh, because my grocery bill for Jan. and Feb. only amounted to $12.45 
and I lived good these two months too, but the eggs make the difference. I used 
up all the eggs myself. I haven't counted them in that. They are only 25 cents 
per dozen in Pearce now, and about 15 cents in Cochise. 

Last Wednesday, when I was about to saddle Nig to go to town, Blue came over and
said if I'd help him hook up his young mule (only 1 year & 9 months old) he'd 
drive in, so I turned Nig loose and we got his big horse & mule & drove in. We 
expected trouble, but she walked off just as nice & never done a thing. But 
after we had her harnessed, she got away from us and we chased her for an hour &
1/2 before we caught her again and that is the reason she didn't do anything 
when we hooked her up. She was tired. Monday we are going to hook her up again 
and go to Pearce. Am lucky that I don't have to use Nig. He is feeling good now.
Will write more Monday, if I think of anything. 

Your brother, 
Edwin 

P.S. 
Monday. Cat still sick. Arthur got back Friday, but I haven't seen him yet. 
Isn't going to stay long. Snow all gone. Nice weather. Snowed a little 
yesterday.

Edwin