Nebraska advertiser., 1877-09-20

lated, and with the exception of his
first cousin, the Mexicans. il the only
animal that can be successfully raised
above tim Der line.
1t is talented thing TO load n bur.
ro-he usually unloads himself with
out extra charge. The future may re-
veal something burro cannot pack.
but up to the time of going to press
human ingenuity stands aghast.
THE vERITABLE COL. SELLERS.
AT dinner station near the head of
Stun Gullion, a hill nine miles in
length, or rather depth, which hill is
no friend to grace, we found our old
friend, Col. Sellers, and his family,
keeping hotel.
Mulberry looks older and Ieaner
than in the halcyon days of imported
turnips, but his enthusiasm has not
abated particle, nor has his genius
for speculation become impaired by oc-
casional disappointment.
Said he, You never heard was a
foreordinationer, but be. / believe
everything is ordered, good, bad and
indifferent. That's why / am here, l
felt moved to it,"
Mrs Sellers says, says she: "Mul-
berry. what on airth be you agoin' to
that desolate. out of the way place for,
where it's winter half the year, and
the biggest half at that ?"
For" says I, "for instance And
then told her, to make my answer
more comprehensive,
YOII'IL SEEi
Stranger I've got the key to the
San Juan ; everybody passes here
goin' or comm and most on 'em stops
and all that stops pays tribute, and
I'm sittin' at the receipt of custom.
L KEEP entertainment, you want to
be entertained, entertain you, you
pay for it, L pocket it. That's what /
call for instance It's true to natur'
its ordered I! This man has a crit
ter, the stage has six critters, that
Mexican has forty critters, leastwise
they're burros. All these critters
want entertainment.
Now, dye see that medder 2" 7
looked in the direction indicated and
nodded. Mulberry laid fore finger
under the lea of his nasal organ and
bending his head into familiar proxi-
nifty to mine, said in a rasping whis-
per, Hay! It's hay sir, that's king
in these mountings.
I'D rather hev hoy mine than
silver mine
Ten thousand critters a year!
"Ten pounds to the critter!
'"Ten cents a pound How much is
that?
"D'yes see that waterfall ?"
I assented.
"Another niagry ~
Yes-grand. beautiful.
"But the utility ont"
For-for-what?
Observation-Disclosures manu-
facturin'"
Yes, | see, manufacturing Of-of-
what ? Churns Here's grain for
a hundred cows-a hundred pounds of
butter to the cow-fifty cents pound I!
How much is that? Butter, stranger,
is nigh onto bein' king in these parts
-digesticate a heap of fat in these
Now here's the tavern
stand that's money: here's rough
ness for the critters. that's money
here's the grain for the COWS, and
the butter, that's money !; here's the
timber for the churns and the power
to manufacture 'em, and that's money,
and nOthin' to hender steppin' smack
into fortin'!
"Then here's the mOuntings for
grander, the singin' rills for beauty.
and if I do say it myself, the dryest
in the world-I feed my soul
out.
Mirandy. give us piece of music
give US People Will Talk, it's so true
to natur.n - .s...t--.,-. .s..,l,s.. w..
And Mirandy brought out the whee-
zy old guitar and whanged its strings
over some song that was obsolete be-
fore she was born. while Mulberry in
rapturous attitude kept time with his
stogy boot on the puncheon floor.
LAKE CITY
has a bona .fde population of one
and transient population |
Of half as many more. 1t has an air |
of stability about it one rarely sees in |
mining towns of its age. and is destin- |
ed, when this country is developed, TO |
become a city Of wealth and CONNER |
cisl importance. The town has q |
location in the narrow
valley of the Gunnison river, at the |
mouth of Henson creek, its principal /
tributary in this section, and is sur
by high and seemingly inac
oessible mountains. The distance
from the end oil the railroad is one
hundred and fifty miles. and the time
in reaching it thirty hours.
Freighters often occupy ten days in
he trip. and charge five dollars per
hundred pounds.