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MONO COUNTY, CAL., ITEMS.Hailing Bouldrrw—Fine tinpcs-Poor Feed nod Bad Tr ills )The Homer Index says :Scores of immense boulders, some of them weighing hundreds of tons, are rolling down over Parrett’s trail to the Bonanza mine every night, smashing that serpentine thorougfare so that it will have to be reconstructed.Pine grapes were raised at Andy Thompson’s rancn, at Mono Lake, this season, from vines only two years lt;old. No frost has yet struck the lake shore, and all foliage is as green as it was in midsummer. Altitude, 6,000 feet. (Feed for animals is becoming very scarce in these canyons. In other ' years it has been good at this season, but last summer an unusual number \ of horses and cattle from the valley , gnawed grass to the roots before it ' matured or even got a good start. .14 Shorty,” the Mexican packer, con- j eluded that these trails were a little j too tough for his city-bred mules, and ( has departed for the shores of Mono Lake, to lug wood for J ames Glenbrook 1 Thompson, Esq., on level ground. 1 The Golden Prince trail, one of the f best in the district, scared him into fits. There is one place on it where if ! a male falls he will keep going all day and get hungry before he fetches up.
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Reno Weekly Gazette and Stockman
Reno, Nevada, US
Thu, Oct 24, 1889
Page 3
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Dean T.
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