Weekly Trinity journal., 1857-07-18
Trinity River Correspondence.

EplToRs OF THE JOURNAL-Gentiemen 1t warm
is fair then the day yesterday week. was too
fair. when having by reference luckily lost my
claims at Canadian Bar, in which claims my new
German friend, the jumper thereof, found less
alas than my loss, poor man and being thus re-
leased from an immediate call to work, which in
stinctively like, heat from reflection disrelish,
that moor globe of luckless continent called |
made steps towards Burnt Ranch, and walked
What to do there? Answer TO talk TO Winslet
h Holck my friends at their ranch there. about
wheat. Egyptian and other about vegetables,
especially watermelons about bonny clauber,
of which their supply is large and well called
bonny about short horned Durhams and their
progeny about coal pits, fences, and future
wears every thing in short which one should
/ talk of outside the instant noisy world in such
| beautiful mountain held rolling valley as this
into which the sun by day and the moon by night
| in all the ncxhaustablc prodgality OF natures
wealth of beauty pour themselves TIL they seem
4 to run over.
They have a good place. Winslett and Houck.
! lis forty-fve les from Weaver twenty from
Manzanita Durkee says over fifty from Weaver.
| think there is a little excess in Durkee's esti-
mate. Be that us it may wave il. lie ought
to know, and | presume does But what odds
/ does it make plague take it. Who cares whether
/ the ranch is over twenty, forty fifty or any other
possible nominal combination. addition, or null
yet my friend or my enemy-that means you
all awful public, that | now address, so anxious
to please that | almost forget first to please my
self not quite though or rather to please that
something in me which is not me and yet is there
/ Awful nameless something what art thou. Thou
who gvest daily and nightly life TO life, and like
! the infinite creator out of nothing makes world
within for me, and yet rs | said out of no more
cause of quarrel than difference of opinion re-
spectirg the distance of Winslett and Houck's
farm from Weaver. les ladies and gentlemen,
either by birth as born good, not ace born, fudge;
/ or by education, for reason can conquer nature
and make the dscordant elements barmonise to
good. Yes ladies and gentlemen born with hea-
venly compassion in your hearts, for no greater
or nobler cause of hate than this men the world
over and even here in California. to day, are
| killing and seeking to kill each other! Yes and
giorioriousy inflated at the thought of what great
things tbeyr doing
Well, the ranch is there anyhow. Lean to-
Durkce or lean to me, shall feel bad at heart of
course if you prefer him to me, but III weather
it. I've suffered aud lost so mnch that I've heart
to bear / thank the Lord have learnt some
thing | once knew man and piIied him, who
! hadn't.
Not only have Winslett and IIouck a good
ranch then with blooded stock, rare wheat the
best Eve seen this year. ample and in fact all but
ineXhaustablc range Of pasturage, but they have
hooks for orchard and vineyard which if they
don't have growing before another year III ne
yer write about their ranch again. Not even
their bonny bonny clauber shall tempt. Do you
know Sam McCracken? lie has at Burnt Ranch
a blacksmith's shop in which he daily works, him
self. lie has always treated me like friend.
and such do not doubt him. But prehsps you
do not know him. I'm too hasty excuse Allow
me to introduce-hcm-gen public, my friend.
| Sam McCracken and | venture confidently to
assure you pub. that Sans laugh can drown any
other laugh on Trinity but one aud whose that
is, modesty forbidB that should tell. | must
make a full period here But almost think that
if you liked me | would como back again, but !
don't know, I'm nightly easily chilled, and very
slow to believe that should ever be so fortunate
as TO have any Of the worlds smiles meant as
sunshine for me. 1t may be though, who can
/ tell. But shall write once more anyhow If the
Journal will publish it, and give some account
OF the mining in the nei9hhorhood Of Burnt
Ranch and South Fork. will write in plain,
clear words. and give such information as per-
haps will be new to many; hope to some use
! FIJI. ABC
Weaver, July l6, 1857.