Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-03-01
CORRESPONDENCE.
REDDING's CREEK, Feb. "a, Y:

hEDDlNG > OREEk, Il Gu. II, -.
DEAR JoURNAL.-When l "crossed
the RubcOn," or Trinity as you may pre-
fer to call it, armed with pick and pan
and the other paraphernalia Of mining, |
expected, Of course, that ere this time
the readers of the JOURNAL would be re-
joicing at the discovery of rich and exten-
sive diggings made by your Uncle Snort
in this locality. But alas for the vanity
of human expectations, though the bed
rock has been laid bare in many places
the earth thereon does not yield up its
hidden treasures, kase it has none to
yield. Had | been a member of the
Agassiz or Smithsonian Institute, my la
bors would have been we'll rewarded by
the discovery Of certain quahaugs, and
other petrfactions belonging to that age
when the Redding's Creek basin was an
inland sea. But quahaugs, albeit when
in their normal conditional good food for
humanity, become indigestible when pet
rilied, and if fellow expects TO strike
diggings where he can make grub, he
must look for place where he will
find more "colors and fewer quahaugs
when he comes to wash up. Thus endeth
the first lesson, and stand ready to gam
bic that | can sink more shafts with
out striking prospect than any man
west of the Sierra Nevadas, always ex-
cepting my valued friend, "Jacinto," ="
who | will back up as being able to get
less gold from given quantity of gravel
or bedrock that any other Christian liv-
ing.
All this, however, does not alter my
belief that the Redding's Creek basin has
some splendid mines within its mountain
walls, which it only needs good water IA
cilities to develop. Thus far it has been
n very poor season for that section, but
the last storm has started the water some
and the boys are making good use Of
what they have. The best claim now be-
ing worked there is that of Smith &
Clement, on the slope Of the hill above
!
not boing more than from one to three fee
in depth. Here the Pan wocket" " leaC
seems to have crossed the hill from tha
gulch and spread out over wide exten
of country. No prospects that would b,
called good are obtained and it is only b,
sweeping large area of surface into tn,
bitches that it is made to pay. 1t i
worked with a hydraulic which has abou
ninety feet pressure, but even that fall i
not sufficient to cut the clay which under
lies the surface gravel and in many place
is left upon the rock, which is sand -ston,
and very soft, so soft in fact that | saw
the "Sucker " cutting it with the "Grea
North American Root Exterminator.
instead of pick. At the head of TIN
gulch where they are dumping, Abba
Smith has a gouging" claim, wher
the bank deepens to ten or twelve feet
and the gold found is of coarser order
There seems to have been two distinc
gold deposits in that section, one tn
Pan wocket" lead before mentioned
which starts from between the forks {
that gulch and crosses the mountain t
Clements field, while the other follow
down the low, red hills west of Reading
Greek. On this last named streak non
are working now except the O'Conno
Brothers, with what success did nc
learn, but from the work whick was don
in this range with the limited water facil
tiles at command, l think that bette
paying mines will be found at some futur
time than any now being worked.
shall go down river soon and hope TO col
lect a few items Of greater interest thar
! the above. IMpREsoR.