Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-14
MATTERS IN ALPINE COUNTY
HOPE VALLEY, Jan. 10. ~.

| MATTERS IN ALPxNE COCN1
| HOPE VALLEY, Jan. 10, ~.
EDITOR APPEAL: When are We
going to have q storm is the cry o!
everybody in this country. If We
do not get snow soon in the noun
tains it will be rough on the people
up in Alpine to run the river next
spring. There is not any snow up
this way only on the mountain tops
and very little there. We have not
had but ten inches of snow this sea-
son and that fell on the 28th and
Goth of October, but it did not last
long. We had light shower OF
rain on the 18th of December, the
day after the earthquake. 1t was the
heaviest shock ever felt in these
mountains. It was about 8 o'clock on
the nia:t of the 18th. am living
in a large two.story log house and
was sitting at the table reading when
the first shock came. I thought it
was heavy gust OF wind. I was
out q few moments before and the
sky was clear. I stepped to the
door to see what was up when
the second shock came which
was heavier than the first. It made
the logs in the house creak. Then I
took the middle of the road, fearing
the house would fall down. We
had four distinct shocks, but the
second one was the heaviest; it made
noise like distant thunder. It came
from the southwest and passed
northeast. It made the mountains
ring for two or three minutes. Mr..
Barnes cane down here in the morn
ing. He is mining up near the sum-
nit; said that he thought the day of
hallalugerum had come. Mr.. Mer-
ri.l, who keeps store at Woodford's,
said it shook things up in the store
worse than any that he ever felt. I
was expecting to hear of San Fran
cisco being destroyed, but it seems
that Alpine is the only place that
felt it. They felt it at Markleeville
and Diamond Valley. think there
must be little hell under it; there
is Dig one on top.
On New Years day I caught the
largest goldenheaded eagle, in a steel
trap, that 1 ever saw. He measures
seven feet six inches from tip to tip.
I took him out of the trap and have
got him Gagged, and am going to try
to tame him. My partner, NJ. F. S.
Frost, went to the traps next day
and in the same trap was her mate.
The one that he found was the
largest. It had its leg pretty badly |
cut in the trap, and Returned it loose,
but it could no: be satisfied with |
that it went down in the valley two |
miles, where we had some poison,
and took dose and did not raise
again. It measured eight feet from |
tip to tip. I have saved his wings |
and feet. The wings measure three |
feet four inches, and the talons eight |
inches. when spread out, from the
tip of one claw to tie other. Who
can beat this for heagles ? We had
a very lively race after fox last Fri
day, with a trap attached to his foot.
He got into the trap on Christmas
night and broke the chain that it was
fastened with, and started off with
the trap. We went out as usual in
,he morning to look after our traps,
but 10, and behold this one was
gone. The ground was frozen
md we wont about a mile
before we found any track of it.
Finally we found the track and fol-
owed it a few rods and lost it again.
Then we gave it up as lost. But last
Friday as we we're going out to look
.fter our traps, we found his fresh
rack where he had been the night
previous. It was about four miles
rom where he got into it, and had
t on his foot II days. It is No. 3
teel trap, weighs SH pounds, and
lid not have any clog, 80 we thought
We could play hounds and overhaul
lim soon. So away started Reynard
md the hounds. It was early in the
morning, and we travelled pretty |
lively. We had not gone more than
half mile before we got sight of