Show OLD GRIZZLY FINALLY KILLED death ot a ald boar which infested the vicinity ot calco grizzly bend was the name borne for many years by that portion of the county lying along the sacramento river southeasterly from chico and embracing the parrott ranch and other lands in that vicinity says the cal mercury of course it is a long ears since the grizzly held possession there as like the indian he was forced to give way before the pioneer settlers of that vicinity A place however so well calculated for the home of the grizzly could not long be without its representative even if it had to be an animal somewhat less w ild and more domestic in its habits hogs turned loose in the swamps and morasses soon became so wild eliat it was dangerous for a person to be caught unawares by one of the patriarchs of the herds that infested the district so large and vicious had one of these fellows become that he was known and feared by all the residents in that vicinity and for his wild nature and ferocious conduct generally had become known as old grizzly and it kats claimed he was bulletproof bullet proof and be slain presently he fell a hatim to a party of hunters who sought him with the avowed purpose of effecting his extermination the boar was an immense fellow and weighed pounds his tusks were long one of them being partly broken off the hide was over an inch thick alid tho shields on were y inches thick he and never been ired b iv n bic |