Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-11-09

stand stli the brake is always on, fol-
nobody dare stop without first putting on
the brake. There are no carriages here
OF Eastern make They are all from
the West and South. There is not o
concord wagon in the country.
Houses here are very slight affairs,
and would | think. be better adapted to
a much warmer climate There is not
one per cent of them that have any boards
on their walls. They are simply sided
up with what IS called all through the
West and South siding" which is a
very cheap cidpbOdrd from ten TO twenty
feet long and is only four and halfor FIVE
inches wide. They are poor things, not
much like our clapboards of Maine. In
side there is usually nailed onto the walls
d very thin muslin. and sometimes this
Is papered over. When it is, this is
called a very warm affair. There are of
course many houses that are plastered
but this Is the exception. All houses
have for an under pinning four sticks OF
stove wood about fifteen inches long, and
the sills are of two pieces of two by six
joice which are nailed together fiat ways,
which YOU see would make a sill of the
enormous dimeniions of four by six.
The reason Of setting the house up fifteen
inches from the ground Is, | presume, to
give free sway TO Rocky Mountain
wind which sometimes visits this country.
Cellars-well if there is cellar under a
dwelling house in Leadville, have never
seen it. That thing Ia unknown here,
tho | did hear that NJ. \. J. Showse
had an underground house which is over
the gulcb, nearly mile from the Post
Office | shall 20 and see 1t the frs,
opportunity. \ sink Is also one of the
unknown things OF Leadville, After a
months dIhgent search and inquiry |
learned ola sink in East I'd st. | shall
also make that call and ask the prlva-
lege of performing my abluiion as Of old
like Yankee.
Game here is very plenty and IS as
cheap as beef, only Is 10 20 cent per
pound The market j. full OF all kinds,
deer, elk, antelope, Rocky mountain
sheep, and grizzly and cinnamon bear. !
saw hanging in our little meat shop
twenty deers. beside carcasSeS Of all other
kinds Of game. At Shu;es Qwnby
market to- day, saw two grizzly and a
Cinnamon bear. One Of the Sriyz!yS was
a cub, but the other was a monster: a
he hung by the nose, he reached down
distance of ten feet he dressed nine
hundred pounds he was three feet wide
across the ump. The f4t was four and
even siN inches deep on his back. The
Cinnamon bear was monster too; and
must have dressed seven or eight hun
dred \ party of hunters some miles
from here. las, week were hunting bean
and one Of the party when alone en-
couut,I,d a Cinnamon. and the bear broke
his leg and arm and togc cut ono of his
eyes ana comp .etcly tore oft his under Jaw
before h., comrades could rescue him; be
lived only "a .sw hCuI>. The claws OF
the bcas ] SAWS to-day. arc tyc inches
long Slujc had q sheep a few weeks
since. brought H. by hunter; be
weighed about two hundred They are
,,gy delicious y4uag. The horns were
4bou, fifteen .ach., lla- ana e., ;hc head
they were ,iN iuche, through 1t is said
ina, they will jump down a cliff 80 feet.
and strike on the rocks below on their
turc feet and their horns without injury.
They are very wild and arr consequently
difficult to shoot IENNr.