Year: 1863




high dndgeon. singing us We went The old time
called" Wash o." Alter loading at the Bluffs
We found that we had every thing necessary for
the trip but dog. Dogs seemed quite numerous
about Tie town. / asked the Captain of the
Lassen Rangers what would be the consequences
II should take one. He told me there
vacancy to ill caused by the resignation of Gen.
Butler, and il would steal twenty Of the afore
said dogs he would see that the appointment fell
to me. So / singled out n iue looking fellow
and started. He seemed quite well pleased with
his new master at first, but when we camped at
night it was my misfortune to draw the short
straw, and TO be duly Initiated into The culinary
department. Now | could not swear as to the
cause of the dogs leaving, but our journal shows
that July 18Th the dog left because he couldn't
stand the grub,


| As propose giving description Of the coun-
try as 60. Shall commence at Shasta, where
you strike the first desert which is forty miles in


length, containing ltilc vegetation and now
and then q spring of brackish water The most
striking thing about this desert is the number of
toll bridges on it. Over one of these kept 10y
small boy we paid 50, and after getting the
money little impudence told there good
ford just below the bridge and we nigh. possibly
find water enough for our cattle. Speaking of
our cattle believe we had five as good oxen as
ever were yoked and the sixth was good also, but
for two faults. One was be was hard to yoke,
and the other was he wasn't worth continental
after he yoked. We had pleasant trip to
Susanvie, pretty level road, but never saw
anything equal to it in The way Of rocks. This
country is said to be infested with hostile In
dans though we cav none, neither did we fear
them, though we traYeed alone for hundred
miles


Honey Lake is spoken OF as a beautiful valley,
but some how or other failed to sec it. The
travel through Susanvlle will make it something
OF place if Humboldt proves good, but after
leaving this you never see stick OF timber any
more, and the number Of dead cattle from there
to HUMBOLDT is awful. A man is obliged to hold
his nose foT about one hundred and sixty miles
The stencil is enough to generate cholera. What
makes them die in such numbers is more than
teamsters can tell. There is large amount Of
goods and lumber coming in, the lumber being
mostly from Battle creek California, aud is
worth $500 per thousand feet. The road from
Honey Lake ia one continuous desert though
Col. Lander improved i. some. more particularly
the watering places, and notwithstanding my
great admiration for the illustrous dead, / do
think there is two things in his life he had bet
ter left undone-t the building of this road and
voting for Brecknridge On the 10th of August
we landed at Lassen's Meadows perhaps the
pre;tiest spot on humboldt. and not handsome
enough to spoil the dog-skin at that,


This Territory is bounded on the north by the
Boise river excitement, on the west by deep
holes and dead oxen, on the south by the great
North American rebellion, and on the east by
horned toads, gresshoppcrS, circumstances and
polygamy, and is wholly destitute of a shade,
and contains ono river crooked q dogs hind
leg and largest at the head. There is any
amount OF good copper and silver Ied6cs IN the
Territory and new lodges being discovered and
taken up every day. If one half of them prove
good it will require half the population Of the
world aud all the capital to work them.


have not engaged in anything as yet. had
an offer yesterday to drive cattle but lost the |
job by overraing my abilities. When The fellow
asked me If | could drive told him "reckon l
cam" for l had drove stage over the Falls of
Niagara two seasons, and guessed could man
age the horned cusses His reply was that be
loved liars, but suited him too we'll. The fact
is, friend Gordon, work is about played out with
me until it pays better. If had sufficient means
on hand to live beyond the possibility of want,
my right hand should never know what my left
did, and as they say in Frisco, " nor any other
man." company is being formed TO prospect
more thoroughly district sixty miles north Of
here, and ae eight or nine Of them will be Trini-
tarans think will accompany them. On my
return shall write you. The immigration from
the States is large. Some of them stop. but
most OF them so through to California The |
immigration to this country is immense, and
where the grub is to come from to feed them and
where the money is to come from TO pay for it, |
gets me. There lie not a cent being taken out of
the ground. The mills, three in number, are stil.
and everybody is prospecting. There is one ditch |
in operation, and another talked of.


We haye goodly number of aecesh ont here.
but they mostly hail from Slave States A man
can have some respect for such class Of men.
but Northern and foreign secesh in my opinion
is nbout like the last few lines of a Sheriffs exc
cution poster, too hideous to mention. / may
LOCATE here but don't like the idea Of living
where .hcre il no wood. May come back to
Trinity in five or six weeks


Stand firm by tie old Union, and elect your
ticket or leave the county. JACIYTo.