Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-05-26
Letter from Packer City.

FUCKER CITY, May 10, 1860.
FRIEND GORDON Il took u stroll down among
my constituents at the Smiths ranch mining dis
trict, last Monday. l had been away near nine
, months and how everything has changed in that
short period.
1t is common to hear miners talk of /" putting
face" to their claims, and if water holds out
much longer the ranch of my friend, Jno. Smith
will present bold one. An acquaintance living
on that fiat, says there is not company at work
but makes Sc a day to the hand, and from that
to as high as 500 "Oh what lie !" somebody
will say, but Calvin Fogg told me his claim paid
$50 day to the hand, for last weeks work.
Franklin q Co. cleaned up 500 from nine days
work.
My whiom friend Theodore JONES' has, l
think, the best located claim | ever saw. A
boarding house bounds it on one side, black
smth shop on another, (no excuse for dull picls,O
large pine tree (whose wde-spreading branches
cast shade over his entire claim about noon)
on another and then a county road runs directly
through the middle of it, where he can see his
friends at all hours of the day. What a location
for q politician! Best of all a house stands at
the foot of his claim, Immediately on the road to
where his sluces jam" the worst, at which a
pretty fair article of brandy is retailed at 12t
est in that claim with Theodore; | think we
might combine business and pleasure 80 thorough
ly that neither would strike in on us.
We hear nothing more of Tiernan's new pump.
| hope it is not a humbug, but can find fifty
men who will swear it is For my own part
III hanf az l..ls.
it possible. | am an incredulous person, and
never can be made to believe the moon is green
cheese until | have seen the shippers in it. Be-
ing Kentuckian, do not profess TO understand
Hydraulics or any kind of patent lixin's whatev-
er. | never heard of but one patent originating
in the State, and that was nothing more or less
than fence, eight rails high and eight rails
wide The beauty of that fence was that if it
blew over it was the same height as at first. My
mechanical genius may be somewhat below the
Kentucky average, but if | was placed In the
center of q forty mile cane-break with two jack
knives, verify don't believe | could put han.
die to a corn-cob pipe in month. My room
mate tells Of having seen pump model in Wea-
yer which resembled one he had seed tu hum :"
didn't work WE'LL
/ intend, with others, to commence sinking
shaft in quartz lead near my house tomorrow,
with but little faith, though II seems to me
that gold bearing quartz should be sound, but in
all the ledges | have examined find it broken
and shattered.
| am one of those who always love to read the
productions of Mrs. FADER and l.. f. WELLS. BY
the way, what has become of Luke? Preparing
for the /" hard shell" ministry, no doubt.
Send on that Italian paper If it is anything
like the old Kaintuck jargon-" kersap,"" Ker-
whack" and Kerpop,"I l can read 1t. Don't
make mistake and send baby, unless you can
send the mother, also.
What is more provokingy annoying, when
you sit down to read, than to have fellow in
the room who has his troubles all arranged to
music, and sings them right into your ears in
spite of everything. Here sets one who, to hear
him tell, has gone through enough for dozen
men-had both arms, one leg, three ribs and his
back broken (and his neck should have been,)
at each of which misfortunes some scamp jumped
his claim, which in every instance paid richly
after it passed from his hands. He is of the firm
belief that the generality of mankind are dis
posed to " chisel" the generality of mankind.
His insinuaton that Providence isn't much bet
ter has got my dander up, and he shall either
"dry up'' or take thrashing. l had just as
soon be chained to the floor of livery stable
and be butted to death by billy goat, as to be
bored with such visitors. III seal this and try
him pop. Doubtingly,
.JACIVTO.