Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-03-13
OUR TRIP TO CIKNABAR.

| JOURNAL NlNld ana ABOVE all an inter-
esting description of Cinnabar District
and the immense wealth abounding with
in its limits. As has been said by some
body in time past, "Man proposes, God
disposes )" and the Almighty being dis
posed to cover Cinnabar with about eight
inches Of the so-called beautiful snow,
our good intentions were frustrated and
sent to join those which had gone before
in forming portion of the pavement of
that Internal region whose chief inh8bt-
ants are defunct delinquent Subscribers,
and where the beautiful" never inter-
teres with the praise-worthy enterprise Of
ye local.
"Ifyou want to otravel, il is a nice thing
to be a small man and have big horse"
incidentally remarked the sage Of our
party during the trip. The high Sheriff
being SO situated naturally took the lead
and those who followed, not being so well
equipped nor as much used to the saddle,
suffered proportionately. "Every cloud
has its silver lining" and a discovery
made by ye local on-etiring the frstnight
at Trinity Center amply repaid him for
the pains of the'day. He was chaled :
And although it was necessary to take in
a portion Of each leg to form enough for
a respectable chale, he was content and
happy in the discovery. " Seeing is be
lieving," and experience leads us to add
so is feeling" While we rcoicod at
the discovery of enough, we exulted, un-
der the circumstances, at the absence of
that superabundanco possessed by the
Judge.
Everybody knows the road to Trinity
Center and it is useless to describe its
beauty or to enlarge upon the good fare
furnished either at VanMatre's or Tour
telotte's. We always make it convenient
to stop at one Of those places when tray
cling that road, and proceed on our Jour-
ney well satisfied. AZ the Center, Mrs.
/ Coyle has charge Of the dining-room,
Alex. Murray runs the house, and Davis
Hall takes charge of the horses and sees
them well fed. We were told that The
style of cleaning horse there was to
punch him with long stick and make
him kick the dirt off. This we think n
base slur on our friend, Mr.. Hall"
From Trinity Center we took the Yreka
road as far as the Davis ranch, ten miles
above The Center; forded Trinity river
and proceeded four miles further by wag-
on-road to Hawiett's Camp, on Ram
Creek, the present head Of wagon navi-
cation. From this point Cinnabar is
reached by eight miles Of very good
mountain trail. Arrived at Hank Wits
cabin about 3 p. NJ. on Wednesday
showing rs though it never would stop
Phl5rooll wanted to go home we didn't,
and so all concluded to remain until next
morning, expecting to encounter about
three feet Of snow on the return trip
Got away with Il square meal set before
us by Hank who, by the way, is one OF
the best cooks in the mines. Left Love
/ JOY and Whitmore to the tender mercies
Of the Trinity Co.'S boys, while Philbrooll
and we accepted the protlercd hospitality
OF j. T. DoIiiie and Jared like pIiuces.-
| Snow continued until bed time, but must
have stopped soon after, as on Thursday
/ morning the sun rose clear with only six
or eight inches of snow on the ground.
| This, however, was enough to prevent
any extended examination Of the mines
Worland & Buffers shaft was visited
and shows very rich indeed in Cinnabar,
being literally striped with vermilion
stringers. Mr.. Butler showed us small
hoo-probably six cubic feet in extent
i'll the side Of the shaft, from which three
tanks Of quicksilver had been taken. At
the present time they are not getting out
any ore, but are running tunnel to
strike the body uncovered in the shaft.
They have made arrangements for the
transportation Of four-ton furnace from
San Francisco and by the time it cen be
got there and placed in position they will
have plenty Of ore to run it with. Mr..
Butler informed Us that one lead on the
mine had been pro,pected for seventy feet
in width and found to be good furnace
ore for all that distance. From what we
/ saw, we are satisfied that the mine OF
Worland & Butler is one Of the richest
in the District.
Hawkett " Lytle have commenced at
the back end Of their tunnel and are stop
ing to the front, everything back Of them
being covered so that nothing could be
seen. The orc pile at their dump is suni
cieni, however, to show the richness and
extent Of their mine-being small for
tune in itself. They have three large re-
torts at lIawkett's Camp which will soon
be in position ready for operation. The
/ firm have just contracted with Jamos
Mullano for the transportation of ore
from the mine to the retorts. Both the
companies just mentioned will turn out
large quantities Of quicksilver during the
Summer.
The Trinity @. NJ. Co. continue work
on their tunnel, being in distance of 2l5
feet without any exciting developments
as yet, although thoy are not far enough
int the hill 10 strike any extensive de-
post. From rock Indications tits thought
they viii soon reach the vein on which
Hawkett q Lytlo are at work. Rumfct
& Loring, b. c. Wattles, Jas. e. Carr
and others have men at work prospecting
their mines, but owing to bad weather Of
late but little work has been done and no
developments made beyond the striking
Of an occasional stIinger. II. G. Wilt
has found excellent surface prospects on
his mine, north of Worland 81 Butler