Year: 1872

DEAR JOURNAL.-1he h0ller ~ days
have come and gone and many a holler
did l hear from in Douglas City or the
suburbs. Even Old Santa Claus has
thrown off on us, do believe. wonder
did " Uncle Snort" hang his little stock
ing up? failed, for two reasons, first
I was afraid of finding it full of anath-
ensdS from the JOURNAL office, second
candor compels me to own though hate
to do it; l didn't have any stockings to
hang up. Guess I've got to wait till l
dispose of my charcoal, then can buy
lots of them.


Have been running coal-pit on the
Greeley principle for some time, which
must be my excuse for not writing last
week. The Old Philosopher may under
stand the science of farming thoroughly,
but can discount him on raising savage
watch-dogs. The following is my plan:
To raise savage watch-dogs plant your
sausage deep, manure with decomposed
dogwood bark, and when fairly in bios
som cut their tails off and chain them up,
mot the tails but the pups and stick the
tails in the ground for seed.


have been long enough at my coal
pit to hold the ground by pre-emption.-
AS the law requires shall cultivate and
improve it, l probably will begin by
erecting dough-nut stand on the premi-
ses. guess it will have to be self-sus-
tanning. l can feed Johns geese on bar
ley, skoot 'em up the" Counts" sluice-
boxes, and collect what lager l can dis
pose of. You see in this way l can hold
the ground until the time arrives for gar
dening, and in the meantime consult
Greeley on the sass" enterprise
Charcoal


A pretty good shower for boy of a
county like this. Sixteen days rain and
liable to rain sixteen or one hundred and
sixteen days more. The river was high
er on Friday last tn an it has been at any
time for four years. l tell you l began
to feel little afraid of the bridge, but on
Friday night and Saturday it went down
seven or eight feet. am told that the
waters of Hay Fork are unusually high,
and have been since the commencement
of the storm.


i should think the mining fraternity
could waltz " in now, though l have
heard Of but one company rs yet that
has made start and that is the Dutton's
Creek Company. Practical miners all
throughout the county will feel more or
less anxiety about this particular claim,
If the boys are successful in this claim,
(and do hope they may be) it will make
some claims of that character valuable
that are comparatively worthless now.-
There is large extent of mining ground
situated on Dutton's Creek, that cannot
be made to pay except in the way they
are working now. The water was turned
into Charley Tourot's ditch, but l hear
the ditch gave way somewhere, which it
will take several days to repair. This is
about all know of the mines in this vi
cnity at present. The fact is am not
miner, though it seems to me, too, | have
faint recollection of having used those
instruments of torture called the pick
and shovel.


Gee whillikins but there is more me-
chanical genius lying dormant under my
scalp, only waiting for the opportunity to
develope itself than | ever dreamed Of
| am good blacksmith, a good carpenter
and, in fact can do anything have tried
and do it well too, except to solder up the
bung of cider barrel that staggered
me some, but still think it can be done.


A word or two to correspondents. We
have the promise of good mining seas
on, and l hope a prosperous one. Say
to yourselves" will write and keep
the local paper posted on what we are do
ing until the water fails" Let one man
in each mining district pledge himself to
do this, and the JOURNAL will be sup
piled with two or three letters every
week, and in this way we can all learn
what is going on all over the county
Come there's no excuse state facts
write as you would talk-never fear but
your letters will be interesting and don't
be afraid to advance an original idea on
any subject. Come; give poor devil
of an editor a show for his life in this
world, for in the world to come


Charcoal. JACINTo.