The Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1852-1872, 1853-05-14
Whisky Creek Correspondent


Eds. Courier IL owe you bit of an apology,
for my remssness i'll regard TO the promise, etc.
Please excuse this time. l did not go on that
Pitt River excursion for reasons obvious. There's
too much good looking ground about here to
leave untouched
| Your paper of the 23d did not get look at,
| owing to the poor memory of an houbre that
| forgot to bring it out understood you called
me ont IN that number. Not knowing the pur-
port OF your article, | can't answer il as should.
so please take the will for the deed
| Here goes for little talk about these pre-
cincts As the old lady said, living back from
the road, not taking papers, ETC., Pm not posted
mp with news elsewhere. The miners are doing
about the same licks as when last wrote YOU
At Mule Canon the claim of Parks & Bass is
doing the elegant; one of the firm told me their
yield last week was thirty ounces, the two pre-
| vious forty ounces That is what call rolling
ont the raw material, in sums to suit any reason.
| able man. This same ground has been worked
over before. Such strikes are hard TO peat even
| IN new ground. AT OK Canon they are march
| ing into the bowels of the earth without impedi-
| menf. and think doing well, or at least hear
no complaint. That is some criterion to go by
now days. There is large scope of good
looking country for gold about here as laws out
of doors. 1t has hardly been explored, to say
nothing OF prospecting. There are four miles of
this creek above Ok Canon that have never been
worked, for the reason that it did not paw for
half prospecting it. There's as good looking
gulches empiying into it above as below, where
1t was worked with success; and think it will
prove equally as rich by working it clean. Its
sprter amusing To see new Corners with pick
| shovel ETC., make their debut and crit at this
place the same day. They sink one small hole.
call 1t prospected, curse the disgings and camose
aqui. That is not doing Justice to man or dig
| SllSs. One day, or a weeks labor is not going
to prospect this Northern country, without a man
is in awful good streak of luck The best way
is to locate two weeks or month set the ma
chime aud excavaie. Paning has fooled many a
man. There are bushels of gold about here vet
II could get up respectable earthquake,
would prove the statement. AS I've not genius
or ingredients for volcanic experiments, must
go inio The WORK NAH fashion, with pick and
shovel
| The Indians are not now so frequent in their
calls about here, though they cleaned out one
| CABIN last week. You run fast pen when you
wrote that article in reply to the Frisco. Typo,
| III regard TO these internal red skins. You spoke
| the sentiments OF the miners about here certain
| and doubtless i'll other parts. Its all very fine
for those in the Bay City to cry peace" with
police on every cOrner-and even then they dom
| travel without Rcsoluer! Let them TAX turn
up this way. camp out, lose their blankets, and
they'd soon say, as did the gentlemen of 76,
" there is no peace"
But Pm getting too lengthy in my episte, and
will saw Oft with short appendix. We have
been luxuriating on some of l. G. Rice & Co.'S
| Boston Pork, that some good Samaritan mer-
chant, of Shasta, sent out TO Whisky Town we
have gone seUral tickets on that Now, we want
better article of BEANS and some fresh beef.
| / learn that Mr.. E. w. Tracy officiates as SUI
| pervisor of the Shasta Branch of Adams q Co.
| He is worthy ofthe station. Persons making ex-
changes at that counter will find him courteous
agreeable. and, in short, of the right stripe.
| This has been a wet day, and avail myself OF
the spare Time to write you this yarn, though il
is badly gotten mp. This striving for items is
orfiil ON me. If you can Gull ont anything from
this spread of ink. worth the room in your little
galaxy, let her rip. More anon.
| lonrs truly, FoRTY-NINE.