Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-05-15
CORRESPONDENCE.
BuLLYcHooP, May 9th, 1875.

BULLYCH0oP, May 9TH, 1879.
EDITOR JoURNAL-Since my last, af-
ter having worked up their assessments
sufficiently to show claim seven or
eight of our quartzists have gone to the
Sacramento valley to do up their harvest
ing, some of them living in Yolo county,
one hundred and seventy-fve miles from
here. They say this year haying COM
menced on the 18th of April; last year
it began on the same day of May-they
leave partners behind to attend to their
interests. A few days ago Nicholson q
Wilder struck small ledge of foot in
width, with good prospects, supposed by
them to be the western extension of the
bes it very much. Lockhart, who is
. on the Readings Creek side found pretty
good prospects in spur of the " Mann
moth Mine" which he undoubtedly feels
pretty well over. Joe Davis is said to be
canvassing among the Bald Hills for
subscription to build trail by way Of the
Cherokee Station to this place. / think
it may be inferred from this that they
he and Jack Gooch, have spliced
teams-quartz and quartz mill. think
it now becomes the boys on the North
side to make trail from Indian Creek.
They can put a good one on to the di-
vide III two miles, and from there up it
is an easy, old Indian trail. The wealth
er has been very changeable in this alti-
tude for the last few days. Last Tuesday
it was so pleasant that the rattlesnakes
took promenade even on the shady
North side of the hills; one between
three and four feet long came " the Bull
lychoop Camp, apparently determined to
put up there for the hight, but he got II
"head put on him" and an aerial passage
from the end of a spring-pole into the ra-
vine below The blankets were well
shaken that night before retiring. The
Bullychoop company shifted their wind
lass to the Occidental Mine last Monday,
and commenced sinking on the ledge !;
but the weather became 50 bad they had
to quit on Thursday. Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday it rained, hailed and snow
cd, and was very cold. The wasted car
cass of large bear was found on the
East side of Bullychoop, some one hav
ing shot and lost it. Covey 81 Co. while
out hunting last Sunday drove three out
of the South Fork of the North Fork, up
the west side Of Bullychoop. Not hav-
ing their dogs with them the bears beat
them at the game Of hide-and-seek in the
chimisal ; but they got "a fine young buck
that, Perry sGys, tried to bite them and
oh, lor | wish that you had had some Of
tit was so sweet and tender. There
were three OF them, and Perry, who
brought down the buck at the first pull,
fought all three ut once, and alter some
thing less than seventeen shots from his
Spingheld- Improved Henry" put the
other two to flight, all escaping without
II scratch.
There is much debate, and prospective
trouble, about the rights covered by the
three hundred feet border OF n quartz
mine-whether an outsider has a right to
discover and hold parallel or other lodges
not spurs-within this boundary. Ma
ny, who pretend to be posted by the
Shasta Land Office say separate odes
can be held. Your correspondent, being
of II different opinion, would like to know
if il is the intention of Government TO
sell part of the same claim twice
GOLD-PAN.