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Sardine Valley to (Weal's is ten miles, agood wagon road. Half way. there is tne Iog \ alley hill toassend, and though somewhat steep, wagons pass over without difficulty. From the summit of this hill there is a gradual slope for five miles, to (Weal's, on the main Truckee. Found the house of Mr. O’Neal enclosed hv a wall of split timbers or pickets, eight or ten feet high, as a defense against the Indians—though they had recovered from their fears and pulled j down one side of the stockade. The upper and lower floors, all the beds and every nook and corner of O'Neal’s house was filled withWashoe bound travelers. Among the rest. ;Messrs. Birdsye, Crittenden and Maltman, ofyour place.After leaving (Weal s we leave the wagon road and take a trail running down the left | bank of the main Truckee. This trail pas- j | ses along the side of a bold bluff bank for some distance, and cropping out from this ; bluff are several veins and patches of a beautiful streaked and variegated lava—the * colors mostly chocolate, with red, brown j and black. Five miles from O'Neal’s we cross the Truckee at Stout's Bridge; from Stout’s, over a gravelly valley, seven miles to Huffacre’s; from Hntfacre’s. overthesame level ground plain and passing in sight of the Steamboat Springs, to the foot of the Toll Road, nine miles; thence up a gradual rise for tome two miles, then a descent of a mile to a narrow valley bearing to the right and gradully rising to Virginia City.
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Nevada City Journal
Nevada City, California, US
Fri, Jun 22, 1860
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