The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-23


on mule back. Tho go Of May say or the cro< I'd
mounted, vertAble Mexican as7lero mule driver
bringing up the with two mulss loaded with paok
ages and bunees ned with the wherewiiha 10 support
mountain life.
l., who bad twice assembled Telegraph Hill at San
Francisco and rourred in safety bore tro-
mendoos Colts revolver which s.y be could have
fired OF 10 without shutting MS eyes, aud in
TIE other long, BLACK Suspicious looking bosde. With
which ever and anon he paused W recruit the sprte Of
Our risi A who took the lead beslroce his powerful
gray mule With the air Of experienced mountaincer
his ample beard sweeping his breast and his thoughtful
Artistic features bespeekibe the lover OF the grand
the beautiful 10 nature he was among the FIRST IN hs
previous who bad visited the famous falls OF Coo.
lock 10 the ioeemi,y Vailey and Was made captain by
unanimous consent
Passing the dggnes nj the head Of Msxwell's creek
and ascending the Chemsai Mountains VIC soon reached
the Sawmili, I've mles beyond Csrltervile. Here we
encountered certain ex Goy~nor, stumping for OF
the political candidates for the GubernatoriA chair He
bad recently been very III, Informed by
resident and - brought nearly 10 deaths By tho
stranger maty years, e., esss OF cold water and
clean pair Of socsipgs rood constitution, however,
add close application 10 Lndisy Murray were doing
Mtbh place the pine region Of California commences
Twilight found us vending way down the valley Of
the North Fork Of the MERGED; ana missing trail at
the Forks reached the vicinity OF wheelers quartz
mills which We encsmped. All night the LOUD cries
the snImsis doa5,iess attracted BY The smell Of our
cooking, for pursued our journey In true California
style. Here the delightful rarity Of the air and evepness
trees with other covering than the Mexican poncho,
oftener the thick Macipaw blanket
Early next morning We mounisi, and passed Gelson's
mill and Shrocders store At Bull creek the classic appel
stion Of the North Fork OF the MERGED river A few
miners located upon this stream and Iva branches but
up 10 this time there have been but few "ten strkes
among the diggers. The vicinity, ho~ever, 10 rich In
quarz veinr Hence route lay along the valley Of this
creek, by the trail up the left hand branch and in
two hours rad passed. the last mining locality near tho
head Of the stream with which cseemed TO behind
M the last vestgee Of civilization.
TIE MOUNTAINS
We shortly arrived At tine grassy fiat at the source OF
the stream and from here noted above around us the
peaks Of the Sierra Nevada piercing the skies and boun
less waste OF orested ranges unduanug ike the q
tempest tossed ocean In the hszy distance aud stretch
ing downward toward the Pacific voted the scene
Dozen OF the puny gmpses arouod New York, called
"sfupendous" by the cisr Of Broadway, suggested
what fun would be 70 roll Scbooeys motel aud
ALL down The vast slopes which with scarcely an inter
rupton from the clad summit above Us. TO oar c
arose the Pilot esk OF the hghest points OF the o~er
mountains while 70 the right OF the trail LAY toe valleys
OF the MERGED ADD s tributaries the mountains seeaing
70 Dissolve in that direction INTO liquid ether-from purple
and blue pipnacles into shsdowy outnes-so great
was the distance. .-..
Another long and steep struggle and We reached the
dividing ridge beteeen the ruolumns rvere, the trait
winding alona il summit, aud throug' majestic fores,
OF pses AM cedars From this emerged upon besu-
uiul msadoy 10 which some preceding travellers had
river tbs name q Hsre Green, and made camp
hres niles begged, we're We found gas asa water Ter