Kirk is writing on behalf of a miner who sent a nugget weighing 84 and three quarters ounces to New York to be assayed. He had been offered $1100 in gold for it, but refused. The nugget only coined him $477.76, and Kirk feels that there must be a mistake somewhere. The receipt did not show how much the nugget weighed before melting, and Kirk asks that McMaster look up the matter for him, as the miner is a poor man who trades at Kirk's store. The miner sent his nugget east by another merchant. Kirk promised to check up on the matter for him, and asks that McMaster bill him for his trouble. Kirk told Patrick Kenehan of Wilton, Minnesota to have his copy of the Journal sent here Montana, but if McMaster has not commenced sending it, he may let it continue to go to Minnesota, as his family lives there. P.S. He asks that the receipt, which is enclosed, be returned as soon as the matter has been checked, and also a description of the nugget if they remember anything about it at the assay office. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.