The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-10-28
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Wung RIVER, Nyo Co, Oct. %, 1882.
Ebroe RrcoRD:- The writer, in com.
pany with Haggerty and % head Of
horses and mules. left Bristol on the
morning Of the 18th inst. for this place,
distant from Bristol some forty miles.
We being tolerably fair at driving (quill
drivingl we're permitted to drive tho
team in front Of the band Mr.. Haggerty
bringing up the rear on horseback. The
wagon was cast loose from its moorings,
bounded up like rubber ball, crashed
down like a thunderbolt, and as we tried
to steer the course Of the runaway team
in tow, gent from the wharf informed
us that there was brake on the side Of
the wagon. Because fellow can drive
quill it's no sign that he can drive
broncos.
After Rafe Barton, who accompanied
us out for several miles, had faded in the
glooming, we passed an Internal machine.
II was composed Of glass and wicker
work, had capacity Of five gallons, and
had evidently been left there by the road.
side by bad white men, probably Bris-
toliani Democrats, for the purpose OF tor
pedoin. voters for the coming election.
The machine, when found. was utterly
void of explosive material.
During the afternoon Haggerty, hav-
ing become tired OF riding horseback, ex.
changed places with us and the saddle
horse being gentle as q young lady on
her good behavior, we gladly mounted,
trotted, galloped and imagined ourself
vacquero en- route to fandango. As
rider OF the wild and untamable mustang
Of the west we considered the greaser no.
where as compared with us, and we
gloated over it. The day was radiant in
sunshine. the air pure, fresh and uncon-
taminated by the odors Of Chinese cook
houses, Bristol gin, or furnace fumes.
All in all the effect was exhilarating-
yet as we Numbered across the sagebrush
plain after stray mule an earthquake
suddenly uprose from under MS causing
US to dance the saddle ON our beam end
for about 1893 of a second, and then to
lnrch forward over the horses head to
the ground As we bathed our bleeding
face and fast closing eye, George in
formed us that the horse had bucked .
little Then and there we arrived at the
conclusion that the best way to ride
mustang was to ride him in a wagon.
The cub is branded "a. f." Let this
nla,,ll he
back to Bristol
By the by Haggertv has prodigious
having during the day de-
voured the entire lunch put up for US at
Riepeis political headquarters, and also
three sacks of raw bacon; and when we
at White River at III o'clock
that night almost frozen to death, he
swallowed the remainder Of our supplies
. cans of peaches-and then complained
of being nearly famished.
Mr.. Lewis, with whom we are stop.
ping, is surrounded by very interesting
family and is the largest rancher in the
White River Valley. being the owner Of
some 900 acres of good farming land, on
which is a neat dwelling, substantial
stables, ETC., and about 1000 head of cat
tie and horses; in fact, he has everything
to make man happy, with the exception
of a severe attack of rheumatism, which
affection makes him decidedly unhappy
at present.
The extreme pleasure derived from the
grateful gratitude Of ranch life at this
season of the year, and also by the course
of mastery inactivity which Haggerty
is pursuing, cannot well be expressed by
pen, or otherwise, and were it not for the
loss of a boot, a new boot, and real
good boot, from the wagon, we might
feel ourself favored one.
JOYFUL.
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