Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-12-08
Trinity County and Hts Mines.

of our State, in point Of population-deduced
from the late Presidential vote-used the follow
ing language: " In every county, save Trinity,
there has been loss, the decrease being 1856,
or more than twenty per cent" This statement
clearly demonstrates the fact that Trinity county
is the least exhausted in her mineral resources,
not only of the northern, but of all the mining
counties of California.
Whilst other mining districts have luctuated
and decreased, ours has steadily increased her
population and we doubt very much whether
any county in the State, proportionlte to the
number of inhabitants, has many old residents
or has enabled so many miners to return to their
old homes and bring back their families to this
golden land.
! Trinity county has about one hundred miles of
/ the Trinity river within her boundary, not more
/ than one third OF which has been turned, and the
bed Of the stream worked--in most instances
paying well, and some places have yielded i'm
mense amounts of gold Every season new por-
tions of the river are turned, with an average
success of good wages. The nnumerable low
and high bars all along the river prospect well
| for seventy miles of the one hundred we do not
believe there are a dozen bars but upon which,
with good suice head of water, fair wages may
be made. Many of these bars have made for
tunes for those who have worked them, and hun
dreds yet remain almost entirely unprospected.
Trinity river, and immediate vicinity. has pop
ulation of some three thousand, and there is
ample room for three times that number to do
well.
Putting into Trinity river we have Coffee
Creek. Stuart's Fork upper East Fork, Digger
Creek, Buckeye, Eastman's Gulch, Moneys
Gulch, Deadwood, Rush Creek, Grass Valley
Creek, Indian Creek, Weaver Creek, Browns
Greek, Oregon Gulch Canon Creek, North Fork,
/ tributaries to which are East Fork, Grizzly and
Ratlesnakc,) South Fork, and New River. All
these tributaries have gold mines upon them.
COFFEE CREEK empties into the Trinity forty
miles above Weaverville, and is some thirty or
forty miles in length, portion of which only
has been prospected. The first mining done there
was in 1855 there are about fifty men on the
creek now, making from three to six dollars
day, to the man. Six miles below the mouth of
Coffee Creek and on the Trinity is the flourshing
very rich claims
MrNERsvTLLE, twelve miles below Trinity Cen
ter, is the trading post for upper East Fork, Stu
arts Fork, Digger Creek, and Buckeye. There
are some two hundred men at work on these
streams, averaging fair wages.
BoLTs and EAsrMAN's dggings, six miles below
Minersville, are on Trinity, opposite each other
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only have water to work two or three months in
the year. during which time from five to as high
twenty dollars to the man, per day, is real
lied. Bolts diggings are extensive, the gold
range being some eight miles in length by about
two in width Only some twenty or thirty men
work here every winter, all the water being
owned by Winkle & Lanver who have but two
or three suice-hcods to spare during the rainy
season. These mines would we'll pay for bringing
ditch from Stuar's Fork-a distance of thirty
five miles, as the race would run and at some
future day il is sure to be done.
LEWISTON four miles below Bolts, is among
the most fourishng mining camps in our county;
the mines here are Of three kinds-hill, river and
bar diggings. In the neghborhood are some
three hundred white and Chinese miners, and
y
Within the last eighteen months the bill back of
Lewiston has been prospected and proven to be
rich. Messrs. Day, Phillips d Co. have, the past
season, expended $4,000 in running drain and
suicng tunnel in this hill, and their claims are
now in successful operation. Messrs Nunnaly
and Crow have each ditch conveying water
upon the bars near Lewiston, and we are inform
ed more water is needed.
DOUGLAS CRY is another hourishing little town,
and the head quarters for some three hundred
miners. 1t is situated ten miles below Lewiston,
and six miles from Weavervile. Mr.. H. Hooker
is now extending his Trinity River Canal to the
diggngs about and below Douglas City ; when
this is completed there will be plenty of good
paying ground for several hundred more miners
in the vicinity.
! INDIAN CREEK is some fifteen miles in length,
and has one hundred and fifty miners at work
upon its bars and banks these mines have paid
and are now paying well.
! Some of the very best bar diggings on the
/ Trinity are between Douglas City and the mouth
of Canon Creek-a distance of about eight miles.
CANoN CITY, located on Canon Creek, is quite
a town, and is the tradng-post for the miners
working on the creek these diggings pay well.
Some two hundred and fifty men are at work on
! the creek and tributaries.
| NORTH FORK, on the Trinity, and twelve miles
from Weavervillc, is quite thriving place be-
| tween three and four hundred miners buy their
provisions here. The mines in the neighborhood
are good, and we know of several very rich
claims.
Big FLAT, Cox's BAR, CEDAR FLAT, below
North Fork, are all good mining localities.
New RIVER dggngs seventy miles distant
from Weaverville. Until last year they were not
much prospected, but the last seasons work has
demonstrated that many of the guches and ra-
vines putting into the stream are very rich
There are at present about ninety miners at work,
and we credibly informed that several claims
have averaged eight dollars to the hand during
the summer. There is room for several hundred
miners in these dggings The gold is coarse,
ranging from one bit to one hundred and eighty
dollar pieces.
WEAvERvlLLE, in basin, at the nearest point
six miles from Trinity river, has one thousand
inhabitants, and rivals any mountain town in
California for enterprise aud hospitality. In the
basin about five hundred miners find employment.
The diggings have, and are, paying well. The
scarcity of water has prevented these mines from