, 1873-06-22
Agriculture Under Difficult
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Wounding q
Bear.
Panning -0ut-Cleaning- ng-Up---In
Raid--Manzanita---
Wyamet.
Crow Indian N1ourning---Placid
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loining q Ham.

far as warmth iB concerned. There arc many
piles Of snow in the gorges, and all of the
higher peaks in tho Wind R;ToF chain are COW
cred with great fields OF SNOW, which look ghost
II enough under the dark blue sky. It is no
joke to see snow in June, and, though it may be
al very well to talk about, ia in practice as dis
agreeable as anything can be. To talk OF raising
crops way up here
IS PREposrERoUs.
A few sickly-lookng turnps and potatoes may
be raised it great care ia exercised and, when
man has succeeded in getting potato as large
as hens egg, he feels SIS big as It ho had found
8 gold mine. But real bona-fde crops are ont
Of the question the weather is altogether too
cold, and the altitude too great. a man might
Just about as well try to raise japonicas
on tbs eide OF an iceberg Green
vegetables are almost unknown, and q
lsuky-looking onion-sprout is considered
avegetable curiosity. Men grow eloquent while
ereaking about it, and carry it from house to
house, as if it we're ventable trophy. All this
may be pitifu1 enough, but it is unquestionably
true. Miners would consider dinner-such as
almost any wel-to-do farmer in the East sits
down to every day OF the world-the greatest
:" layout " that ever WIS seen In the tide OF
Time. Canned stuff is the stronghold Of q
U10eft AuA 6uQubA Ul1 LII Ed1b AIG lOuuA Ill @ub
vicinage Of his cabin to look as il it had once
been tin-shop. AL sorts Of stuff nre put up
in these cans, come Of which is very good, and
Some decidedly the reverse.
4 MINERS cARN
is not the neatest place in the world, aud, il it
is sufficiently well built to keep out the snow snd
portion Of the rain, is considered to be well
enough for all practical purpoees A rough
mir eaTi-o
another; while two or three rough stools
era thing, all the furniture. OF course, there
are few cooking utensils" and tin-plates,
knives, and forks. The main attraction Of the
cabin, however, is q pack OF cards,-called
deck Of cards,-which, from long use, have be-
come lop-ea.ed and himsy- Games Of cards are
= never-failing source Of delight to the mining
population, and it is difficult to say what they
would do were thoy deprived Of this kind OF
amusement.
couple of hunters went out IN the noun
tAins few days since, and found the snow very
dcep. The saw nothing except an elk and
Gn1zzLT-BEAn.
Mr. Grizzly receivcd shot in the shoulder,
and st once ran toward the hunters, who stood
ready for him with their Sharp's ca1bines.
He came within about q rod OF them,
when, considering *s discretion the better
: T,+o +1,o s,,orr In won't ,,,d
$3.50 sa,ora1 eho+s tyara fTed ha 7ot ~ and
1oa6L ;e;.ad n i,,Jrod n ona - ia Eoooda1
F,g;pa' IL ;o sa;d In have hem 7arpe hear and
tis action on his part ia something unaccount-
aee vsr9 gise Ind attack snyhng I that
NTH IN tbeir sa Tay | Hunters % are asaTe Of tIs, and
for th;s reasnn the two who were out together
n eood sls Waitne his approach. and did not IRE their
r;aes M the9 wero not sure they would not be
ra11ed nnon to help one another. The grizzly bear
- 1ha mist savage Of auy animal in America,
~ .n5 AZ tba wonnds ! have seon made by them upon
,nman he;nrs were drendful. The hunters have
.1,o1esome dread Of them. and, unless they
ha8e ne''s'9J decided % advantage. give them wido
,berth.
After all, tiere is great deal OF pleasure in
aolD-DIoo1Sa
IN pleasant weather, Tie miners aro light
hearted race of people, and all Of them work
With vim. After the surface~dirt is removed,
the ground underneath is found to contain gold,
and The blue clay beneath this ground is some
times called IS bed-rock," although there is no
such thing as rock about it,. The men take their
Il, Nn rf fr4Tr tr hat