Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-10-28
Letter from "Jacinto."-Incidentsa attend
ing the South Fork Hunting E1pe-
dition-Politics, etc.
BRowy's CREEK South, Oct. %, le

nv friends TO pen truthful account OF that cele-
brated hunting excursion for your columns, L
have reluctantly assented, commencing where
YOU left off with the smash-up ON Browns creek
mountain At the time was mining on Browns
creek-y-e-s Browns creek. Suffer me to di-
press little to give you bit of advice for guild
ance in the event you ever delve mother earth for
shining gold' Here it is Give your boxes
about six inch grade, and never - clean up as
long as you can purchase grub on space Moth
/ ing for the advice, thank you Well. as | was
going to say, was mining on Browns creek
v-e-s, Browns creek, and hearing mighty
and busness-lke crashing on the hillside above
us observed to the boys that thought the COM
| ct had struck. and we started in the direction of
the racket. Shades of the % Menken y in her
most favorite act and favorable attitude here
came Amos, leading two skinned horses Per-
haps you have seen some sturdy oak rent with
lightning Them pantaloons-talk about any
thing holding-they wouldn't hold anything
they may he seen at my cabin now. To look at
/ them you would wonder how respectable pair
of legs could have occupied them and live. 1t
| beats my time, for have to wear linchpins and
washers on mine to keep them from breaking and
sticking into my body while just naturally slosh-
! in round. Arrived at the wreck, Ed and Mack
4 stood looking on in mute astonishment. Ed, IN
particular, looked solemn. About that time Bill
ly drove up, and he looked solemn, too. ap-
on Brown s creek. Y-A-A-s Brown creek
We started down the precipicc to explore. Cot-
fee, bacon pepper. tea, salt, flour, tobacco, pow
der-everything, with butter enough to grease
the gudgeons of the Uniyerse-all mixed up as
far as the eye could reach | found splinter
with my name on it, said to have originally be-
longed to box containing crushed sugar.
can vouch that it decently crushed the last
! saw of it. The first thing discovered all safe
was bottle of whisky that was probably in
stnct. A little blue barrel which had contained
something French was found all right, but bung
down and the contents had followed in the wake
of the illustrious Wards ducks. We passed the
bottle of anti-solemn round put what we could
gather of a once respectable wagon in a gunny
sack and sent it back to town took some more
anti-solemn, and-elt better. Now Amos is a
man who never bores bis auger holes with gim-
let said he had started for hunt, and blame
Henrys buttons if he didn't have it if he had to
go alone. He looked to me just like hunter
n pot particle of ammunition, and gun broken in
fFthree pieces. Billy said lie would go if would,
and said | would 90 if Billy would, and off we
started for Hay Fork
Before we reached the Valley, which was not
until 10 o'clock, things began to get muddled-
One observed that Natures laws were working
badly-sun went down too early and in the wrong
spot. Noticed that the laws of gravitatOn were
o. X. in my case. Think the last thing recol
lect was that some discoursing on fea-
botany, and felt next morning as though had
been the subject for practical illustration
1t took one day to get ready, and the next eve
ming started for the hunting grounds. Sew
| eral Hay-Forkers kindly accompanied us and fur
nished pack animals. We went six miles and
camped at the ranch below Drinkwater' Sit may
have been Drnk-whsky's, as found two graves
close to camp. don't know that whisky is such
a dreadful dead shot after all, the mortality
would have been greater in our camp. At all
events we had tivc-gallon keg filled at Hay Fork
with - IIurrah for America - and didn't leave
it behind either. never experimental with whis-
ky, but have used good deal medicinallv rs
sodorifc stomachic and general inyigorator of
the nervous and capillary system. It's bully =
But as an emetic is unpalatabe, causes languor
and lassitudc generates hiccough and nausea,
and morbid desire to have Meginnis sent for by
the earliest possible conveyance.
Next morning bright and early, we packed our
animals. and every mothers son of them - buck
ed" We packed them twice, aye thrice before
we were out OF sight of camp, and but for our
Hay Fork friends never would have got out
| of sight of it. Reached camp--9 miles-at sun
down. Saw nineteen deer. Next day started for
South Fork mountain. Some of the boys want
ed to find grizzly but for my part hadn t lost
any, and confessed it that morning. In making
camp that evening got separated, five in one
squad with the grub, the other squad with the
blankets and without bite. In this fix we were
parted until noon next day. We had Il tame In
dian with us who knocked down fine buck, and
we made supperand breakfast n venison straight
! When bedtime came we were wondering what
| the devil men were doing out in the mountains
without blankets, and | suppose at the other
camp they were wondering what men were doing
out in the woods without something to eat.
Stand off, guess. First day killed fourteen fine
| bucks-all we wanted and more too | noticed
that none of our boys, nor Mr.. lnjun, either, had
lost grizzly. Several reported finding one, but
not their brand, | suspect.
| Exterminate the Iukas in that section and
there is no better place than South Fork for min
! ing. | have this from Mcssrs. French and Will
! burn, both having mined there. 1t is not safe
now, unless in large numbers. | think of getting
! up company and 60 there next Summer myself.
| In the mountain tastnesses of Mad river found
James Wilburn, the mountaineer, who fought
wild grizzly with nothing but small sheath
knife half an hour more, winning the fight
handsomely. though he will in all probability
remain crippled in his left for life. | did
not ask him for history of the combat, suppos-
| ing he had been bored often the subject,
but | know that he is living and the bear is not.
Men mistake in forming the opinion that noun
! taineers must of necessity be rough and uncouth.
| | found Wilburn to be quiet, inofensive gen
J
would give you his boots and walk in the snow
himself, and at all times g happy and content"
as Swmley boarders used to be reported in the
Bee We could only bring seven bucks with us,
and some trophies intended for yourself, which
| by the way got lost at Hay Fork. Made Hay
Fork in two days, the good citizens seemingly
rejoced to see us. Nobody embraced me, though
the bar-keep might have felt half inclined that
way, for ought know. They gave party and
treated us well all the time we remained with
them Some of the boys got stuck after South
Fork, some after Hay Fork some where it didn't
fork at all, and some where it did.
To my old friends, the readers of the JOURNAL,
permit me to say that still have an abiding faith
in the Almighty and the Union party, and some
little in Browns creek. Yes Browns
creek, d-n it Came very near weakening on
the party ratio this Fall, and at time thought
it advisable for Andy to send us military Gov
ernor. Swore Iwould not vote for any man here
after whose record was not as clear and pure
a new born infants swaddlng clothes, but the
sober second thought which proves all things,
has righted the Union boys again, judging from
the returns of the last vote, and from this on |