The Nevada journal., 1851-10-09
NEVADA, Oct. 1st, 1871.


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NEVADA, Oct. 1st, 1851.
! MEssRs. ALBAN & SARGgNT-There
are many persons in Europe, Asia,
Africa and America, not to speak OF
the islands in the different oceans,
who believe that sluice-washing, cayo-
teing, 'tunneling and quartz-crushing,
with now and then q little diversion
at faro, monte, and twenty lone, varied
semi occasionally by private snapp
at bluff, draw, or brag, in which
friend, ignorant of the mystery, is to
be plucked in a gentlemanly way, are
the only things thought Of in these
diggings. This, however, only shows
the astonishing Ignorance Of some
folks. Permit me to say, for the en-
lightenment of your readers abroad,
generally, and mankind especially,
that there is a branch Of business car
red on here regularly which complete
ly lays all these things in the shade.
1t may be interesting to sluice-wash
dirt that will pay two bits to the buck
ct, and it may be exciting to get fifty
dollars to the pan in cayote hole,
and to find ledge thirty feet thick
and five miles deep that will pay 10,
20, or 80 cents to the pound may be
enough to turn some peoples heads,
but all this is mere top-dirt, mere tail
ings in comparison with the business
l allude to. What do you think Of
a speculation in which, for an invest
ment of forty or fifty dollars in i'm
provements on real estate, man may
receive by way of rents and profits
from five hundred TO one thousand
dollars per night? Magnificent, isn't
it; and that is just what am talk
ing about the Grizzly Bear business,
in which an enterprising company in
this place are actively engaged.
Being acquainted with some mem
bers Of the company, who are all very
clever gentlemen, and pursue their
operations as much for the sport as
profit, | was invited this morning to
go out to their trap and see them cage
one of the grim sultans of the noun
tain crags, who on last night, contrary
to the statute, ete., had been guilty of
forcible entry and detainer of one of
their improvements" Upon the
word, accoutred as | was" mounted
charger, who, Notwithstanding SUM
dry pounds of extra muscle on his
hinder pasterns, could contrive on the
spur of the occasion, to raise canter,
and in company with some friends
started fer the trap. We passed over
Buckeye hill, all rven and gaping with
tunnels, shafts, and bitches, and took
the northern road which passes by the
foot Of Sugar Loaf. What saccha-
rine fancy and molasses-candy imagi-
nation the man must have had who
first christcned that stern old noun
tain, now gazing down so mournfuliy
yet proudly upon the mangled and
dicmboweled brood of hills clustering
at his base, over which he had watch
ed with parental solicitude for so
many circling certuries From Sharp's
store to Rock creek we had beauti-
full hill road, winding through magni'
cent groves of pine and cedar, and
revealing at every turning the most
ravishing views OF scenery that artists
eye ever dwelt upon After crossing
Rock creek we entered {. more broken
and mountainous country and began to
ascend higher and higher, from bench
to bench, the features of the country
changing at every step. At the Blue
Tent we stopped to get directions, and
after fortilying our inner man with
some of that ''creetur" comfort, so in
dispensible in mountain journeyings,
we turned off the road We had been
travelling into a blind trail, which led
us for about two miles through "din
giles deep and gorges Wild" and a.
length brought us out on the north
side about midway up the huge range
which forms the southern barrier of
the South Yuba Here we left the
trail end ascended the mountain about
thousand feet to the narrow bench
on which we were told the bear trap
was built. A more picturesque spot
r. naFn