Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-05-26
Condition Of the County.

wears when the general prospects at home were
there was time when the voting population of
the county was double what it is at present, but
those who lived here then will remember that a
great portion of the population was non-produc-
ing, and lived by the sweat of others brows.-
That was in the flush and fast times of the coun-
try, when gold vas more easily obtained than
now-when it could be more speedily accumula-
ted than now, and when extravaganza ran riot in
the land. The present population is emphatical-
ly and necessarily a laboring one, although we
think it may be safely asserted that as general
thing throughout the county too many men,
are engaged in other avocations
than mining. With the exception of two dis
tricts of the county-Trnity Valley and Hay
Fork valley-the population is almost entirely
sustained By the products of the mines, and the
labor of those who are actually engaged in min
ing. Merchants and butchers a necessary
evil in all countries and communities, but in ev
cry mining locality there are idlers and croakers
who detract from rathef than enhance the condi-
tion and interests of their place and people. In
short, there are too many who, without energy
to explore for gold, are always ready and anxious
when an audience can be obtained, to declare
the mines "played out, and who indirectly
subsist through the industry of their neighbors.
We plainly assert that there enough and to spare
of such material in every mining community, al
though the evil does not exist to so great an ex-
tent rs in past years.
As gold-producing season this has been by
far the most favorable since Trinity county was
settled About Weavcrvlle there has been suf-
ficiency of water and no hindrance to suicing
operations since the middle of last November
At Douglas City and Canon City work was con-
siderably retarded during the winter by heavy
land and snow slides, which broke bitches and
cut off the requisite supply of water from one to
three months, and at Trinity Center deep snew
completely stopped mining operations for a time
But at present, the county through, more in
dustrious population cannot be anywhere found
We hone in time to be able to record that the ef-
forts of all have proved cOmmensurately success
full. The gold-buyng season has not arrived
yet, in most localities water is plenty, and but
little cleaning-up will be done before July or Au-
Bank, on Monday evening, two metal receptacles
containing nearly Sl3 900 in dust, purchased that
day. This is only single instance. as many
merchants ship their own dust, while consign-
ments of the precious metal daily find their way
out of the county through outher channels than
this. If the mining Interest is as successful as
there is every to hope it will be, many of
our people will be set even on the ill-success
and msfortunes of the past two or three years,
business will necessarily revive, all classes and
conditions of men will be re-encouraged and
mining and business operation will he continued
with renewed zest. Greater or better opportu-
mites for placer or quartz mining researches are
not afforded in any portion of the State, and we
believe if delegation of practical and scientific
miners could pass over our hundred miles in
length of territory, from the head-waters of Trim
ity to the mouth of New River, and visit the
vast amount of unprospected country drained by
its tributaries, they would SO decide.
The farming interest Of the county was never
offered more fatterng returns. The late copi-
Gus rains have established the fact beyond per-
adventure that the grain and hay yield will far
exceed that of any previous year. The veg
etable crop will be unprecedented. Fruit will
not be as abundant as last year, the crop having
been blighted in many localities by the severe
frost of the early part of the present month.
Business opens briskly. The advertising ia
vors of Weavervile traders, of Brooks 4 Kel-
logg, Canon City Nickel Brothers, North Fork
Gus. Martin, Big Flat and the stand near
Burnt Ranch, and Caraway l. Gassett, New Riv-
er, keep people at home and abroad informed
that their points of business are places of actnal
existence. If we were not in the publishing bus
mess we should insist that every trader and pro-
prietor of public place of resort might material
ly aid in advancing the prosperity of the county
and their own immediate localities by making
their places and kind of business public through
the columns of the local paper.
Another important interest of the county-the
Roads-are worthy of brief notice. The peo-
pie of Weaverville District owe Harry Bachelor
a debt of gratitude for the prompt and efficient
manner in which be has performed his duty as
overseer. We also informed that the same
need of praise is due Steinmiller, of Dutton dis
trict Alex. George, the newly appointed over
seer of Junction City district, and Morris, of In
dian Creek district. Experience has proved that
an efficient road overseer is rare article, and
when such an one is secured he should receive
every possible encouragement.