Weekly Trinity journal., 1857-04-11
Our Mineral r Rszources.


I'VE have received through the kindness of DR..
Piper, of the Rdgevillc Express, the following
letter from b. Defis, Esqr.. giving brief sketch
of the mineral district which will be watered by
the water from the Trinity County Canal. 1t will
be read with interest by every entcrprising citi-
zen of The county, and more particularly by the
present stockholders in the Canal.-Ep.l
ROCKVILLE, March q, 1857.
SIRs The country is naturally divided into
five great ranges of hills running in a south cast
ern direction from the chain Of Salmon liver and
Canon creek to Trinity river. In the first range
which lays between Stuarts Fork and Rush
creek we find Buckeye, Bolts and Lcnhart's dig
gings. That part of the county will acquire an
Importance as soon as water can be had steadily :;
for the diggings beyond doubt are both rich
and extensive. l learned yesterday from Mr.
Lenbart very intelligent gentleman and an
excellent miner that he prospected last spring
the ravines for six miles round the diggings
which bear his name. and never failed in n single
instance to find good prospect but was com
PEELED to leave the place after three months of
successful work on account of the scarcity Of
water.
The second range comprises the country lying
between Rush creek and Browns creek. and has
never been fairly prospccted. In hunting ex-
cursion which made in 1855, through that sec
tion OF the county, discovered in gulch emp
tying into Rush creek the presence of rhodum,
metal usually little known, but which is one Of
the most Characteristic signs of rich gold deposits.
Very often in our metalurgic operations it is
found alloyed in great proportion with gold.
The third range of hills runs between Browns
creek and East Weaver. 1t contains the new
dggings which lay three miles below the old
ditch, and will prove TO be both rich and exten-
sive in few years. need not speak here of the
mines that are known to exist in the Wcayerville
basin. Our citizens are SO well acquainted
with their location and wealth that it requires no
mention from me.
come now to speak of the hills bordering on
Oregon guch. Mr.. Isaac Farwell, well known
presume and highly respected by your readers,
and generally regarded as a gentleman and an
experienced miner, informed me yesterday that
he prospected that part of the county for over
fifty square acres and found from one half to
eight cents to every pan / place the fullest
confidence in the statement Of the above gentle
man, for can in part verify as to its correction
myself if | may judge from prospects which
made in the spring of 3 and 50, nearly TO the
por the dcvido, but was compelled to aban-
doa the prospect ard locality on account of the
deficiency Of water
On my retura from Wcaycryilc on Monday
the 23d inst, found some little excitement pre-
va;lng here, produced by thu godSend oranorher
lump weighing $3.50 taken ont during my alb
sence, from mountain gulch by Mcssrs Carton &
Shaw, two gentleman very highly esteemed in
this place for their spirit of enterprise and prac-
teal knowledge in mining. Those men have
made a. high as Sis per day. John Alexander
Co., az croge in Digger Creek IS Der day to
the hand. Yours in haste.