Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-07-29

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We believe that it is, entirely within the beun5a
Of truth to say that the mining season Just past
has been the most productiveland prosperous one
in this basin forS four years. In fact, so far as
we can learn, the yield throughout the county
has been greater, and the miners and business
men generally are encouraged thereat The idea
that the diggings about Weaverville were work.
ed out is no longer entertained, and the mining
fraternity are already preparing their claims for
the rainy season with increased yigor. Z )
few facts and figures may give better idea
of the extent of mining operations hereabouts
Mr.. Block, of GREENWOOD & Newbauer's Banking
Office, informs US that from the lst to the 9th of
July he purchased over Sl20 900 worth of gold
dust and that some SO 900 of this amount was
taken out in the Weaverville Basin. We can
count up at least dozen claims within two miles
Of town which have yielded from Sc, 900 to Sl5,-
900, and there are many which have not been
q cleaned up yet. Many of those in question
will last for years, while large extent of mining
ground lies untouched for want of water to work
with-a disadvantage which this section of coun-
try labors under quite as much, if not more than
any other in the State With a sufflciencv of
water Mt least one thousand miners might be ID
crativey employed within sight Of the Court
House.
The amount given above is but small portion
of the gold product of the county during the last
season. From Coffee Creek to the extreme west
ern border of the county the miners have been
more than usually successful, and vast amount
of gold dust leaves the county through other
channels than ria Weaverville There is no
doubt but that Trinity is to-day of the best,
If not the best, placer mining county in Calfor-
MIA. People leave it and traverse the entire
length and breadth of the State, or journey to
Nevada, Idaho, or some other distant location,
but invariably return with the opinion that Trim
ity is the place after all. In this connection we
notice the return during the season just passed
of many old residents, and there is fair pros
pect that the vote of the county will be increased
at least two hundred over that of last November.
This is n most encouraging indication. If, as
we have said scores of times before, the same
spirit of enterprise was manifested here, and
capital could be introduced to aid in the develop
ment of our resources, as has been done in some
of the lower countes-Nevada in particular
this would be second to no county in the State
in its annual gold yield.
Our people are just beginning to bestir them
selves in the matter of quartz mining. Wemen-
toned two weeks ago that one company had
commenced work in the West Weaver hill This
week fourteen citizens of Weavervlle have loca-
ted what will be known the q Catskill'' ledge.
The top of the ledge appears to be from twenty
to thirty feet wide. prospecting tunnel will
be commenced next Monday, to strike the ledge
at the depth of about fifty feet. If paying rock
is found mill will be put up at once. On the
first extension north, work has also been com
menced, and a company claiming the first extern
sion south is about organizing Gold has been
found in all the rock, and in the claim of Me
worth Of gold were found last winter. Bontecou
& Co., mining just below the q Catskill," found
little other than quartz gold, which led to the
discovery of the ledge. The copper mines in the
Trinity Center section beginning to attract
cons ;derab!e attention. from the fact that of late
some remarkably rich indications have been
struck. Work is progressing finely on the Cop
per Creek ane, Whiskytown lodges. Several
gentlemen of means. resident in this and Shasta
counties, making arrangements TO resume
work on the ~ Scorpion ledge, with view to
either erecting mill on the spot, Or having their
rock crushed at the Washington Mill. French
Gulch, to which point road can be butt at tri-
fling expense
HIGH OLD TnoPHY.-The editor of the Arizona
Miner grows eloquent over a present of fine
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