Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-09-29
Our Great Want.

The urgent and generally felt need throughout
Trinity county Of abundant supply Of water for
placer mining purposes. commonly expressen OPINION
by those qualified judge and by VISITORS VINO nave
opportunity Of witnessing the extent oil our
territory is county is but poorly pro7pec'eo az
vet This may said to apply particularly TO the region
NJ country about weavervile The creeks, gulches and
hg, bars usually be obtained have 1t Is
true been worked reworked and worked again times
without number and yet from few placer mining localities
in the State is the amount Of gold annually taken as
from this But prospecting is at a standstill
There is a enterprise which, il the required cap
tai could be obtained complete it, would most empha
cally weaverylle her pins" again 1t Is ditch
bringing from Canyon creek at sufficient elevation
command the summit Of the Oregon Gulch divide. Not
the completion OF this work would be alone advant
geous to weaverv, but the county generally and par
ticulary range country lying between Canyon
City and the Trinity Douglas City ditch of the
capacity which might be built would cover the section OF
country in question with industrious and
ed laborers The entire Oregon Guch slope is rich in
placer Mines This is we'll known all. But, with the
exception Of n or In the winter water
cnnnot had work them with. On the West Weaver
ted for fifteen years the ground commanded
by has been worked out Continue the proposed
ditch Democrat Gulch and the head Of buttons
creek and thero hundreds Of miners who know just
where locate good claims. With plentiful supply oi
water along either side Of the mountain from the crossing
of Oregon uch divide the Flibuster Flat point and
repeat the entire would be literally dotted
with workers
similar enterprises of which we have not
now time to speak, but which will in time be successfully
carried out there to be disposition
on the part either business laborng population
to either urge capital hithcr We think with lit
tie effort this might be successfully accomplished There
continually increasing evidence that the mania for in
vesting in quartz mining enterprises, or feet as IT
more egitmatey termed, has great extent subsidized
and there hope that the attention OF capital
will the future be directed to the undeveoped placer
regions We would not, by means, dscour-
age disposition seek for and develop the quartz re-
of the State county, but believe that welli
investments in water bitches usually result IN the
ereaest good to the greatest number The ditch opera
ton to which have just referred would furnish employ
nent to more than would the opening OF hundred
quartz lodges. And there is weounded belief that IN
very section of country which this ditch would
pass there hidden wealth in quartz VI GER
tainty yielding detached pieces of quartz found
West Weaver creek, came from some SUD
stantia but yet undiscovered This is theory
which not time Danish from the minds OF OLD
miners Of experience. Yet we plod on year ar
year. without any decided effort the part OF miners
or business men to solve the problem.
We hear that representative of capital Is now In the
county seeking investment in the kind OF enterprise
which have been writing Would not be good idea
invite him hither and then take little trouble to show
satisfy him where there splendid opportunities Tor
than such investment?