Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-05-01
CORRESPONDENCE.
BuLLYcHooP. April IA. 70.

BULLYcHooP, April ii, 70.
EDITOR JOURNAL The snow is all
gone from this airy lookout, except little
streaks and patches in its Northern
shades. For two or three days there has
been very cold wind. and last night it
froze the ground quite hard near the melt
ing snowbeds. From here, the Bald Hills
in the Sacramento valley, look like vel.
iew' troubled sea everything like veget-
alton appearing scorched. There are be-
tween twenty-five and thirty men here,
more coming, and prospecting is going
on quite lively. Covey & Co., have
started tunnel on the Roaring Mine,"
SO as to tap the ledge at fifty or sixty
feet below the surface. They have fair
prospects. In some of the lodges this
and other companies get whtish min
era that they call boullion (boulanger-
ite = said to be worth IS an ounce. The
only remarkable thing here just now is
the forfeiture and cancellation of the
"Bullychoop" and Occidental" bond
Davis gave a certificate of cancellation
to-day. Cause, Thurman & Co., and
Pearson Il Co., going back on Davis,
Gary Il Co. The latter, from what they
saw and heard in San Francisco, attrib-
ute the crawfshing of the San Francisco
companies 10 the representations of
other parties, who wished to obtain the
mines at lower figures. Davis thinks the
" Black Bear" had something to do with
1t, but your correspondent heard the
name Of different party mentioned, and
from what has transpired within the last
few weeks it looks more probable. That
very rich spur, called the "Rattlesnake,"
is said to be on the Occidental claim. 1t
was struck by Covey Il Co., aud sold to
Davis for one hundred dollars. Jump
ing has commenced, The " Mammoth"
or Bismark" mine, which Louis Raab
and Davis were contending about, has a
southerly-diverging branch OF it jumped
by Doc. Tustin and Mallavy. The ma.
jori:y of the miners here express consid-
cradle Indignation in regard to Perry
Davis jumping Byrom's mine, ard talk
rs though he would have to restore it,
This claim consists Of many Struggling,
skipping seams, or ribbons of quartz, that
show only here and there, but are richer
in free gold than most lodges. The con
sideration that he is the pioneer of these
mines, and that this claim was the first
worked being skinned and washed by
him with rocker, by making little ba
sins in the steep mountain side and catch
ing snow water--if not a respect for the
divine right by which he holds all thu
Lodges up here, Che says none but Chris
tian can hold bedrock claim, and tha
our labor Is all lost for he has them al
recorded in heaven, and so soon as W,
get to taking out any money he will sen(
the United States Marshal and take i
alD-the consideration of his being til,
pioneer and more than all his condi
ton, ought, think, to entitle him to thu
privilege of working his claim when an(
how he pleaSes. Mr.. j, Gooch, Of Sar
Francisco, has been here for the las
three or four days, looking out the easies
way to get machinery in, with Il view t
putting up custom mill. j. Z. w
Davis and he were trying to make bar
gain with each other, equal parts il
mires and mill, and, in fact, Davis sale
when he and Gooch were leaving, tha
they had agreed. Mr.. Gooch, just before
leaving, expressed the possibility that, i
Raab and Abrahms do not now take the
Builychoop and Occidental mines, he
and they could make some arrangement
would advise those who have claim;
here, and care about them, to attend to
them. GOLD PAN.