Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1869-01-02
NUMBER 50.
Fourteen Years Ago.

and G. T. Cutler were the publishers, and the
Office of the paper was in Cram, Rogers Co.'s
building, corner of Main and Court streets, and
on the site of the present unoccupied building
opposite the Court House. Editor Rowe (nowla
resident of San Francisco told the people in his
salutatory that poliftaaEIk tha1 ztne. ~oald-ss4s
independent, and that it would be principally
devoted to the development of our vast mineral
resources Of which the outside world then knew
but little.
On the date in question Weaverville contained
twenty-five stores, two banking and express
houses two drug stores, six hotels, four restaur-
ants, six saloons, three bakeries, four markets,
three blacksmith shops, three carpenter shops,
seven lawyers and four physicians. At the Fall
election of that year the precinct polled FIVE
hundred and sixty votes. Many of the early set
tiers of the Weaverville Basin are still here, as
will be seen from the following enumeration:
Dawson Anderson and Dr. Barry were the
druggists; G. &. Williams, W. F. Vaughan D.
H. Stone, w. W. Upton, J. s. Pitzer and II. j.
Howe, the lawyers R. Clifford Co., Eder h
Co., Church & Mix, H. Hooker Greenhood l. Co.,
Tinnin Co., Buck & Cole and Gettleson Il Co.
were represented in the Times, and Cram, Rogers
& Co. and Rhodes l. Co. the bankers and express
men. Edward Trask and VIM L. Jackson were
the physicians the Independence, St. Charles,
and Union Hotels were advertised Coms.ock
Martin the livery men John Adams the watch
maker and jeweler; L. B. Thorp the gunsmith
Looms Co. propretors of the Mountain Mar
ket; John Carr and Geo. NJ. Ingler the black
smiths, and Turner & Trufant and Mitchell, Har-
ris Co the carpenters.
Some acquainted with the necessities of
sanctum in the early days, remembered the editor
with first number, that dignitary gratefully
acknowledging the receipt of Colts Common
Practice five volumes complete in one. On
the day preceding the issue of the Times (De-
cember sth) W. S. Lowden, messenger of Cram,
Rogers & Co.. made the trip on horseback from
Shasta to Weaverville in three hours and ten
minutes, bringing San Francisco papers of the
9th and Sacramento papers of the 7th. On the
same day Geo. Handy was killed in his mining
claim on West Weaver creek. The editor noted
the fact that there was but one manageable
young lady in the county, and called on that
:: famous, tabled country to send an unlimited
installment Of '' Gods last best gft.' And the
appeal was made in the most earnest and implor-
ing terms.
In the first issue reprinted article from
the San francisco Times and Transcript, from
which we make the following extract. The
" extensive dggngs' spoken of were those
about the mouth of Rush creek, and in the
neighborhood of Lewiston, and the ditch that of
Fehley & Co.. now owned by John Arm:
awe are advised by persons in whose state
ments every confidence can be placed that very
extensive dggings in Trinity county have lately
been furnished with full supply OF water, and
will yield from four dollars to an ounce per day,
and furnish permanent employment to from hve
hundred to a thousand persons for one or two
years. These diggings are found near the bridge
on the road to Weavervile, thirty miles from
Shasta company has just completed ditch
I for introducing large stream of water into
these dggings, af'ording supply for seventy
five sluices, and enough for much greater num-
her will be obtained in short time. The
stream is unfailing, and has fall of two hum
dred feet The dirt in these hill diggings pays
down to the bedrock and the washing is con-
Quoted on the hydraulic process, the water itself
doing the labor of first carrying off most of the
surface dirt up to the race, by ground sluicing,
when sluces are introduced to wash the resi-
due"
DR.. Edward Trask succeeded Mr. Rowe as edi-
tor of the Times on the 18th of March, 1855, and
he in turn was succeeded by John G. Crownin-
shield on the 9Th of September following, the
Doctor taking his departure for visit to the
East. One little incident in the Doctors ed-
toria career is worth referring to. Having oc-
casion to visit Shasta he left Judge Williams in
charge of the Times columns, with instructions
to not commit the paper politically, and more
over not to allow his Democratic antecedents to
get the better of him while welding the edito-
rial pen. But like " John Phenix," he thought
the opportunity worth improving, and in the
same number which announced the Doctors de-
parture raised at the head of the paper the
names of Douglas for President, and Bigler for
Vice President. Right gallantly did the new
editor advocate the claims of the " Little Giant"
and " Tahoe" for two successive weeks. He en-
deavored to show that all the disabilities under
which the "Great North" labored were plainly
attributable to the want of bold, out-spoken
Democratic organ = that the five Democratic
counties of Humboldt, Klamath, Siskiyou, Shasta
and Trinity were represented by Wings for that
reason, and that alone The Doctor returned
and great was his wrath towards his apostate
friend. From the reprimand that followed we
make the following extract:
ave thought that we could place the utmost
confidence in the integrity and faithfulness of an
individual whom we had so long cherished as q
friend and esteemed As high-minded gentle-
man. But, alas for the fraility of human ma
ture The ties of friendship-the obligations of
| an important trust-our well-known and clearly
expressed wishes were all dsregarded or forgot
ten by our representative the moment that he
was elerated to the high and responsible position
of editor pro tenn. The opportunity to immortal
ize himself at our expense and advance the in
terests of the political faction to which he cinps
with pertinacity worthy of better cause, was
| too great to be resisted, and he proved faithless
to his duty and the trust reposed in him. The
| remorse which now preys upon his mind for the
infamous course pursued by him, may by some
persons be considered sufficient punishment for
the error committed and it was indeed a pitt
able sight to behold the meek and abject man
ner in which he received the scathng rebuke
bestowed upon him when called on to surrender
up the charge to which he had been SO unfaith-
ful. So perfectly aware did he appear to be of
the despicable nature of the position 10 which he
had so foolishly placed himself, that our Just
anger was turned to pity, and with few words
of contemptuous reproach we dismissed him
from our presence"
The Judge never got another opportunity to
display his editorial ability through the columns
of the Times, and it is said that no person can,
to the present day, intimate Bigler for Vice
President" in the Doctors presence with any
degree Of safety.