Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1866-01-06
UHay Fork News"

The first numbes of paper bearing the above
title was received by Carr's Express. The pub
fishers are Smith, Jones & Brown. The trail
between Hay Fork and Red Bluff being closed by
snow, the first number is necessarily printed on
brown paper. The prospectus says
"The Ne,rs will be published sem-occasonal-
". or oftener as the editor feels in the humor or
can spare time from his ''pick and shovel du-
ties Terms of pton-whatcver dis
eliminating public choose to pay after seeing the
initial number. From miners fine dust or mug
gets will be received the farmer may lquidate
in his Legal tender vegetables at ruling rates al
WAYS remembering that the editor is partial to
onions and garlic, being of French extraction
From the merchant anything will be received
from jack knife to strychnne whisky"
| In his salutatory the editor says:
ain making our bow to the Hay Fork public
it is proper to say that the Nees will be local in
character, devoted to the interests of the people
of this Valley, and especially that large and re-
spectacle class of citizens known as 9 Honest
/ Miners We wish it understood, however, that
we do not include that class Of delivers who eat
rice with sharpened sticks. In politics the News
will be Union, though not radical will favor
Negro Suffrage and the hanging of jeff. Davis ;
mountaineering the right to censure when
it is deserved, and to praise when it is merted
at the risk OF being called Boter."
From its advertising columns we extract the
following:
Nor1cE.-At the next meeting of the East Fork
Club it is expected that Burns will deliver Gu
logy on the life and valuable services Ito trait
ors) of Vaandgham. Hulse will present some
sketches from the lives of Davis, Wigtall Writ,
and other prominent National men, and Godfrey
will close the exercises with prayer. We are
informed by EXpressman Carr that the Hulse
mentioned above is a relative of Semmes the pi-
rate and that he was at time boatsw vain of
the Shenandoah.
WANTED-A middlc-aged Squaw mot over SOY
to do the cooking and washing of a single gen.
tleman References required. Enquire of the
Editor.
The News furnishes considerable mining nfor-
nation, which copy with pleasure. 1t says
The late cold weather has so thoroughly dried
up the water that sluicing is at an end for the
present. The appearances betokcn heavy fall
of snow which will be welcomed by the miners.
Francis Zook on the lower Flat, have IL little
water, and are using it to the best advantage. =
They have one of the best claims on East Fork.
Hulse informs us that he is nearly ready to be-
gin sluiciug. In two weeks more his fiumc will
be completed. Hoyt Co. are laying their flume,
and will soon be into pay dirt. This we know
to be a good claim. Mr. Sims is building n res
ervoir which, when completed will be one of the
finest on Hay Fork. Conlin Co. have their
large reservoir completed. Theirs is old and
well tested claim recently one-half of it chang
cd hands for the nice little sum of 81 500.
We understand that Francis 4 Burk intend to
resume work the Ditch early the coming
Spring, and expect to employ a large number of
hands. Miners can rely on an abundant supply
of water next summer. 1t is well known that
there is a large amount of rich mining ground
along this Ditch, and its completion will add
largely to our mining population.
The Nesr. says that Mr.. David Gibson, mer-
chant, will start for San Francisco soon, with the
intention of purchasing large stock of merchan-
die for the summer trade.
VERY GREAT MIsrAKE.-Thc Humboldt ne
vada Register, December Odd, says:
If you troubled yourself to, yon may remember
that in adverting, weeks since to the war
made upon Senator CONFESS at the Fall election
in California, predicted that the friends OF
Conness would, despite that factious war, choose
the successor of McDougall. They have done so.
Gov Low having long since withdrawn from the
canvass the friends of CONFESS slew those who
headed the several factions, and on the evening
of the 18th in caucus nominated Cornelius Cole.
In regard to which opinion the Marysville Ap-
peal says:
The Register, though generally correct, is very
sadly in error Mr.. Cole and Mr.. CONFESS are not
friendly. To merely say they are - not friend
w." is drawing it very mild.
Forbes has certainly lost his reckoning in the
California Senatorial matter. Nothing could be
more ridiculous than the statement that q the
friends of Conness slew those who headed the
several factions" Gov. Low was not out of the
field as n Senatorial aspirant until the 18th if
he had been chosen it might appropriately have
been termed Conncss victory. The appeal is
correct in saying that the old and new Senators
are not friendly, but it is not the fault of Mr..
Cole that such is the case. His record in Con-
press shows that he acted solely and persistently
for the interests of California, and if Mr. CONFESS
cares to acknowledge that Mr.. Cole incurred his
displcasure by pursuing such a course, he (Con-
ness must shoulder the responsibility of the OK
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