Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-01-14
A Word with our Merchants, Busihess
Men and Miners.

strangers for many years. Irefer to the accounts
of mining operations in our own State. While
the news from the mines in the North is rather
unfavorable, and Silver mining in Washoe, hum
boldt and Reese River, after causing immense
losses to the many and enriching but few IS, 10
use California phrase, entirely played out,
renewed actvityis noticeable in all of our mining
counties.
The unusually dry Winters of the last two
years having given way to season OF rain anu
snow nearly favorable any California ever
had, placer mining everywhere appears to nave
received new impetus, and we hear OF mines
being worked which have been lying dorment
! for several years, and which now as ever, prom
Use to yield an abundant golden harvest Nevada
county seems to take the lead in mining opera
tons in this State. That county has always been
celebrated as one of the richest gold yielding
counties. Its reputation is not as much due to
that to the energy displayed by its citizens,
and the manner in which their operations are
carried on The miners of Nevada have long
since exhausted the mere surface diggings.-
Their creeks and gulches were mined out in the
early days of California and croakers predicted
the entire ruin of that county. But better and
more energetic class of miners took hold of the
diggings and they looked wistfully upon the
hills and mountains which bordered their creeks
and rivers, and came to the conclusion that
those red hills, looking parched and dry, only
needed to be explored to bring forth their hidden
treasures. They noticed that every creek which
washed the base of those hills, that every little
stream, every gulch, and every canon which
took its rise in or intersected those hills and
mountains, carried more or less gold in its grav-
ely bed, and they came to the conclusion that
the fountain head was to be found in those hills
and mountains. But how to uncover that hidden
weath-how to-reach the deposit or the . chan
mel, " became the question. 1t was evident that
one or two or three miners alone, except in very
few cases, would not possess the means to go
| into such an operation--to sink shafts and run
tunnels for months, perhaps years, before they
could reasonably expect to reap the reward of
their patient toll, or be reimbursed for their out
lay. They needed monicd men to assist them
and furnish the necessary means, while they
with pick and shovel commenced devng in the
mountains. To the honor of the merchants and
monied men of Nevada be it said, they came for
ward literally to the aid of the miners, being
sagacious enough to understand that upon the
prosperity of the miners depended their own
The result of such united efforts soon shown
by an increased yield of gold, large profit to the
shareholders of the different mining companies,
and the increased business of the merchant
The same state of affairs prevailing in other
counties the same means were used to prevent
impending ruin, and with the gratifying
result
Ought not of Trinity county profit by the
example? How much longer can we afford to
90 on in the same old style? The population Of
our county has been steadily decreasing, min
ing camps being deserted, all branches of
business dull and real estate has merely
nominal value We must unite and exert all
our energy TO bring about change of affairs. 1t
is claimed that our county is only half prospect
ed-that there are hundreds of places having the
| appearance Of being good mining ground, where
no blow of the pick has ever been struck. Why
is it that such is the case?
to spend the necessary time and money in pros
pectng, and because of the universal complaint
that water is too high. Prospecting in 1865 is
different thing from prospecting in 1880 or 80,
and the miner of the present day has to work
different ground, where more labor and money
has to be expended and the chanches for a rich
strike not brilliant as formerly. But
something must be done to open new mining
districts in our county
Here is a case where our monied men are
needed, and where our merchants if only for self
preservation, must come forward. If they will
only find the means men easily be procured
who with strong and willing hands, will strip
the top dirt, lay bare the bedrock and thus open
new diggngs, and bring new life and activity to
our county. Let mining companies be formed
for the purpose of exploring and prospecting new
ground elect men of known integrity and capa-
city as toremen of such expeditions receive
men who have no means, but are able and willing
to work, as members of such companies havea
Board of Directors, composed of men who are
we'll acquainted with the different sections of
this county, and make the whole organizations
| one,-the object of which will not be to make
its projectors rich, but to benefit our county in
general, and feel confident the happiest results
will follow. The only real difficulty is the first
step in the right direction that made, people
will be astonished at themselves that they did
not move sooner.
How to make that first STEP and what we of
this place and immediate vicinity ought to do,
will try to lay down in the next number of the
JOURNAL. MERCHANT.
BANcRoFT's DIARY, AND TIE PAcIFIc ALMA
yAc.-We have received from the publishers a
| copy of each of the above works. Bancroft's
Diary should be in every mans coat pocket
Besides being Diaryit contains table of stamp