Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-05-01
Homo Resources.

nation, and shall be greatly obliged to any one
who will send us brief descriptive articles.
ARKANSAS DAM.-Mr. Pick says: The mi
ners around are doing very well, as general
thing. Fisher Co.'s claim is paying well, max
ing from an ounce to $50 day to the hand,
washing up. Given & Millers claim is paying
81 day to the hand, ground sluicing, and two
ounces day to the hand, washing up. Hoag-
land Geer averages s1O day to the hand, for
ground sluicing and washing. Eh1efs & Co. av-
erage SS a day. Simpson takes oft about $40 O
day, and has ground enough to keep six men
working for five years Dawson, Stafford Il Co.
are making from an ounce to $40 day per hand.
Messrs. Ocheltree Co. have a very good claim,
and are making good wages out of it. Shannon
& Co., Johnstone & Co., and other companies on
Evans Bar are at work now, rolling it out. This
hot weather has raised the water in the river, but
not enough to hinder mining operations This
Bar has been lively place the past winter
There is Temperance Society here, which has
gained great many converts, and is likely to be
long and well sustained. The boys around this
vicinity assemble every few evenings at the Tenn
perance Hail. to dance to the meodous notes of
joe nlPRlDS NlOllU, anu keep up IHe merry 0aDce
until late hour. We have hotel and store
The latter has just changed hands. The former
proprietor, JOS Lincoln, after having well cater
ed to the wants of this community has sold out
to Mr.. Goewey, of the firm Of Goewey, Hough
Co, Horsetown, Shasta county, well and honor
ably known in that burgh a blacksmith and
butcher, W. r. McDanies, who is doing a very
good business, bntchering three beetes week
On Evans Bar we have a store kept by Jos
Spence, who has very large assortment of
goods, and is one who knows his business, and
also hotel, which has been lately started by an
old resident of this Bar, D. Nichols, and which,
am happy to say, is fast filling up with boarders
The Journal is, in the estimation of the inhab
tants of this vicinity one of the best papers in the
State, and if any one canvassed hefeabouts, he
could get respectable list.
RIVER ENTERPRIsE.-A year ago claims on Big
Flat were thought hardly worth working but the
persevering energies of miners have discovered a
supposed old rverbed, and now scarcely claim
pays less than $40 to the hand, each day-many
of them from one to three ounces Some of the
best paying belong to Weaver & Stinson, Norman
d Hines, Hobart knoskar, Cummings d Schultz,
Bartlett Son, Prescott & Knosksr, McQuilan &
Co., McKendry x Co., Woodman & Turner, Mears
q Norman, Mullin & Co., and Marcel. Water is
abundant; lost of the noted claims are supplied
by John r. Weaver's wheel, which raises twelve
sluice heads and is the best wheel on lower Trim
ity. Water is, also, brought across, from the
creek above Big Bar, by Manion & Ashworth's
hune. Most of the miners board at McOuillan's
Hotel Mr.. Kelly, formerly of Weavervle, has
! the bar of that establishment Wheelan & Co.
have opened an extensive store on the Flat !;
Wheclan is an old resident of the place Mr.
Murphy has n large store there, also.
At Big Bar the mines paying unusually
well a number of miners from this place are
opening new claims with encouraging prospects
Mr.. Warrner, owner of the saw mill Informed
us that several river fumes are to be put in this
season.
! AT Manzania, Cox's and Pelletreau's 5, little has
been done yet because of high water
| Two of the best claims on the river are owned
by McGrand, Curtis, Scott q Wyman, and by
Myers & Co. they pay S25 and over, to the hand,
daily, and are located on the hill opposite Peles
treau & Snyder's trading post Mr.. Peletread
intends to prospect the hill back of his residence
in the belief that the rich lead crosses the river.
Nothing much has been done this spring on
Whites Bar, Little Prairie, French Bar, Taylor's
Flat or Canadian Bar for the high water reason
Operations will begin soon, and there is every
prospect of an active and successful mining
season.
RIVER MERCHANTs.-You will see advertise
ments, to-day, of NJ. Wheelan & Co., at Big Flat,
and i. Raab, d Co., Trinity Store, below Canon
Creek, and Canon Store, below North Fork They
have fine establishments and are doing a thriving
business. They the first Trinity merchants
outside Of Weaverville who have advertised in
the JOURNAL it shows increased enterprise and
prosperity.
kansas Dana branch of the Horsetown firm of
! Goewey, Hough a. Co. they have a pack train
of their own, and do first rate business
Big BAR.-A correspondent at that place says:
A heavy lead has been discovered on Big Bar
by Timothy Cogshall & Co.-havc taken out from
eight to eleven ounces day to the hand. man
from Weaverville has struck the same lead. Nc
Cauley & Go1dworthy's claim pays from $25 to
two ounces day to the hand. Hassen & Co.
make heavy licks' All these claims we're turn
ed over by the Celestials. A merchant at Big
Flat recently received the biggest cargo of mer-
chandZe ever brought on the river. ] suppose
Dougherty made well on the toll business
MCGmLIvRAY's RANCH, on Trinity, has about
500 fruit trees-many Of them will bear this year;
it has, also IL acres of Alfalfa, or Chile clover
the first brought to this county; has half an
acre of strawberries, and fine crop of winter
grain Mr.. McGillivray is road overseer for that
district and will soon have completed a good
wagon road from his place to North Fork-a
commendable enterprise.
NORTH FORK BUsINEss.-The mines are paying
well there. Victors & Co., at work on the d-
vide, mile below North Fork, and 1000 feet
above the river, will do first rate business all
the while water lasts. Durkee & Goocb have
fine saw mll--as good as any in the county
IOQs cut mile above. and fOatPd down to
the mill, where several hundred are lying now
The demand for lumber will continue all summer
because of the extensive fuming business below
MINING claims on the East Fork, along the line
Of Durkee's new ditch, are paying finely.
YANcEY & MEssIcK are working on high pa-
teau above the mouth of Canon Creek We are