The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1866-08-11

Rock CREEK. July. 18th 1866.

ROCK GREEK, July, Zetn 1906.
EDITOR Butte REcogp.-T think il is Pope who
says, whatever is, is right, bat If Pope had lived
up here. and seen no newspaper since the seventh
of this month, he would never have penned those
lines By some hocus pocus means or other, we
have no mail in camp since that date. I know it
is not the fault of our worthy and jolly P. NJ, at
Yankee Hill, for he forwards oar mail matterby
every opportunity he has, and moreover some Of US
are indebted to him for considerable private read
ing besides our legitimate mail. therefore there is
some other cause. Do you think our newspapers
have got into the great distributing Office at Big
Meadows or have the obstinate owners Of those
obstinate mules at Marysvile, hitched their ami
mails to the END of the Railroad track, and hauled
it across the Yuba, ties, sleepers. bridges and a
should like TO know how my policy and recon
struction pulling together in the national har-
ness at Washington, if they at loggerheads still
pickering over that Freedmans Bureau, if they are
let them compromise the matter and give every
Niger achest, those that wore Uncle Sam clothes
ought to have something to keep them in. ! am
no prophet nor the son of one but this Freedmans
question will be settled entirely to the satsfac
ton of that irrepressible gemman, the shadow of
it has been seen in the political horizon for some
time past, and ere long it will come to focus
As far as mining is concerned We keep the even
tenor Of our way. The only company who have
made anything Bush Co., in the Nip and
Tuck claims, having made number wages this
spring and summer, in working over the second
time. The George North Ravine, George, old boy
you missed it there) it is paying wages still. The
Mudsill Co., have suspended operations for the
present, under circumstances over which (as Mr..
Guppy would say,) they had no control. The
grade they had run in being too high. CAMPBELL
Il Co., still at work but will have to lay over
soon, for the lack of water. This is heavy claim
to open. but the owners seem determined to the
bedrock of it. saw GEO. MORTON the other day,
from the the new Josephine District at Kimshew
Some ground that the company had cleaned up,
had paid better than they anticipated. He spoke
in glowing terms of the diggings, and he thinks
the owners have got the world by the narrative.
You must be having some roasting kind of weather
in Oroville, [nothing of the kind, everything is
loveyl if we may judge from the hot days up here.
Old sol glaring down on the bare granite rocks,
sends the thermometer up higher than kite, bat
the nights cool and wholesome-after day
toll you sleep without having to keep awake
halt the night to cool off before doing so. As a
substitute for the fine table fruits you enjoying,
we are luxurating wild raspberries, currants,
and hazel nuts-gooseberries are too
prickly customers to enjoy, unless man has an
iron-cad mouth and grist mill digestion.
7, Bush captured fine specimen Of the Badger
tribe the other day. in rather novel way. As he
was riding along the trail, to his surprise he
the earth flying up into the air at rapid rate and
no one near, Bush thought some one boring /
for lie. or prospecting for quartz so he made to-
wards the place, thnkng if any one had struck it
big, they would give him lay oat as well? the
dirt all the time was playing up at the rate of 49,
on arriving at the spot he saw the hind part of an
animal sticking ont of the ground, so he slipped !
off his horse and slipped out his knife caught the
Badger firmly by the hind legs and made furiou IS
assault him in the rear, after disabling him, he
dragged him ont of the hole and finished him with /
a club, and brought him into camp, as trophie.
He weighed about twenty pounds, was very beau
tifull little animal with short thick muscular fore
arms, large paws and nails an inch long; except |
his greysh color he perfect Bear in miniature. /
have never feed so plentifGll in the noun.
tans what It is this season. Cattle are living in |
clover;in reality independently of the grass, there
is good sized brsh, SPECIES of the lilac most |
and extends over belt of country some 1
Is miles wide, which cattle very fond Of, and 4
which is very nutritious. Deer have been more
numerous this year then usual; probably owning /
to so few people being here, and to the vamosing
Of the Indians. Being no shootist | plead is |
norance in regard to the game law. But tell you |
sir, a nice fat deer within rife shot, and near a |
miners cabin, is great temptation; aifording him |
an opportunity to replenish the commissary depart
nent of his cabin. independently of the butcher.
Not that we do anything OF the kind up here, as
We claim to be law-abiding citizens-at least we
shall be citizens when we are enrolled in the Great
Register. MUDsILL.