Nelson Family Juvenilia
Box 1 Folder 37
The Pioneersman, Vol. 2, No. 13 - n.d.

THE PIONEERSMAN [heading on every other page]

Vol 2. No 13 Published by E.H. Nelson Bird Nest U.D. Sep 1

Dick’s Investment

In three chapters. Chapter 2

Early Monday morning all the family were up and speedy prepirstions were made made for an early start. Breakfast was eaten, things packed and then the start it was only seven when they set out. The sun had not quite risen over the lofty peaks yet. There could be no hurring on this road as it was rough and narrow. There was not much of a load so Dick and Mr. Knot road most of the way. As it came noon [page break] they stopped and let the horses brouse the bushes while they ate their dinner then after resting awhile they started on and did not stop again till about sunset then they unhitched the horses and fastened them to the wheels of the wagon then they got together some firewood and had a fire to cook their supper by for they had shot a partridge as they came along then with their axes they gathered a lot of wood to get for fires during the night. Soon the fires had to be lit and in a little while Dick and his father layed down and went to sleep they had had slept quite a while when they were awakened by a comotion among the horses. They both set up and looked around and could barely distinguish in the gloom the form of their horses and one other animal, for their fires had about gone out. “Take your gun and come on Dick.” said [page break] his father. Dick grabbed his gun and started after his father whose form he could dimly see ahead of him. After going a few yards farther Mr. Knot stopped. Then came a flash and a report and almost at the same instance a snarl from the direction of the horses and a dark object leaped off into the bushes followed by some dozen or so other animals of the same kind they could be heard snarling of[f] in the woods for some time then all was still.

[Illustration with caption: Their horses and one other animal]

Dick and his father fixed up the fires and tried to go to sleep again but it was impossible so as soon as it began to be light they were up and Dick went back into the woods after game and soon returned with a rabbet. This they cooked and then started on and by night were with in seven miles [page break] of their stopping place. The next morning about ten they arrived at the city of Dugout and put up their team at the barn of a friend and then did their tradeing. The next morning they started early in the forenoon and in two days more were home again and Dick owned the micea ground far up on the mountain.

Burt Green

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Dugout Gold Mine

A week ago a piece of golf was taken from the mine weighing twice what the ore did that was sent to the fair. This was spent editorial

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Countries of Forest Continent

Chipewa

About fifty years after that Forest Continent was discovered a small band of people landed on this great continent and sent a couple of delegates to Trappers City to ask for a large tract of land on the west coast of Forest Continent. It was granted them so they settled down built themselves log cabins and cleared their lands. There are now several cities in Chipewa and the land is rapidly growing in population. One attraction to this land is that it has the only large oak forest that there is in the world. This forest is very large and abounds in all kinds of squirrels and other animals who live on the nuts. The people are mostly farmers and hunters. [Page break] Improvements are not being as rapidly made here as in the United Division New Poplington and Mapleton. Chipewa is level like all the countries on the west coast it is also quite fertile though the most of it in in forest.

Sam Willey

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Editorials

The New Road

A new road is being built along Trappers Mountain from Dugout southward. A new city is expected to be built Northeast of Allenstown on the East side of the mountain. This city will be situated on a steep mountain side and the road its self is built in some places nearly perpendicular from here the road keeps on southward [page break] for many miles then turns eastward and gets as far as the N.P. boundary. The road is a nice graded road as far as built.

The Gold Mine

A good deal of work has been done at Dugout in the gold and silver mine. Thousands of dollars worth of these precious metals have been taken out. For the last week trains both from New Poplington and BIrch Valley have been kept running most of the time carrying of the refuse sand and stone from the mine to put on to the roads.

The Worlds Fair

There are many wonders in the Agricultural tent. Among them is a sunflower stock fifteen feet tall, corn twenty five feet tall with ears three feet long, radishes from 1 to 1 ½ feet long. Parsnips as long as a mans arm and many other things as [page break] wonderful. Among the things out side of the buildings is a cannon of mammoth size.

[illustration of boat]

Into whose mouth an ordinary sized man can walk standing upright. It will also throw a ball a very long distance. Then there is a gun boat built especially for the fair it carries several hundred guns is bullet proof and [a] very swift sailor in case of war. This boat would do valuable service and make the enemy quake in their boots just at the looks of it. There are other wonders too [many?] to mention.