Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-25
OLD TRINITY.
ACHANCE FOR HOMES AND MONEY
MAKING.
High Prices-F Rich
Cheap Lands Open to Settle.
ment-Good Climate.

lFrcm Well-Known Citizen of Sacramento
WEAvERvILLE, August Z, 1888.
EDs. RECORD UNION: Something more
than two months ago i left Sacramento in
company with three other gentleman to
make the tour of Northern California, and
as'I observed many ideas of the country
concerning which little is known in Cen
tral and Southern California, l will lot a
few of them down for the benefit of the
stay-at-homes. | shall confne my obser-
vations TO Trinity county.
This county was a surprise to me in
many ways. 1t is as yet but partially de-
veloped, scarcely even prospected. 1t has
an immense wealth of timber, now lying
in its virgin forests awaiting the iron horse
or the hume to transport it to market.
The entire Coast range, or Trinity noun
tains, Is one vast belt of the finest timber
IN the world, with large proportion of
sugar pine, many single trees of which will
furnish $500 worth of lumber after reach
ing the Sacramento valley. The best
bunch Of timber in the county runs dag
onally IN northwesteriy direction from
the Yole-Bole mountains. Other good
timber belts are on Goods mountain, In
dian Creek mountain, and on the Gravel
range between Trinity county and Miners
Vile. The people OF the county expect to
realize more wealth in the future from
the forests than from any other source.
wEAvERvILLE
Is one of the oldest mining camps in the
State, and at the present time has more of
the atmosphere of the 'fall of 40 and
spring of '50' about it, than any place /
have visited. Everything is high-priced
here, and the citizens boast of it, and they
heaye a sigh when reminded that this
state of things must come to an end IN the
near future. | was sitting in front of
fruit store yesterday when a miner came
along and asked the price of muscat grapes,
which ne was informed were 20 cents a
pound. Inferior peaches sell at cents
per pound; hay 3 cents, barley 8 cents, etc.
1t costs 81 25 to procure meal for your
horse, while at the same time you can get
good meal for yourself for so cents.
HOME OF THE PEAR.
The late winter apple and the Bartlett
pear are at home here. I have advised
the eplanting of more apple trees of the very
latest varieties to he obtained. 1t could
be made very profitable if they would
prune their trees once a year, cultivate
the ground and thin out the fruit so as to
leave about one-third the number on the
trees, and. thus have splendid, large fruit.
The scale bug came to this place several
years ago, and is now doing pretty we'll.
He came on Spitzenberg apple tree sent
up here few years ago by a well-known
nursery firm in the valley and has "multi-
piled and increased to an alarming ex-
tent. Nearly every available piece of
ground about here that can be irrigated,
is in alfalfa and it grows to perfection.
Weaverville is feeder for large number
of
MINING DISTRICTS
A few OF which will make mention of.
First comes the Deadwood District
(quartz), situated eleven miles east of here.
1t is one of the most celebrated mining
camps in the State The principl mines
at this place are the Brown Bear, Niagara,
Mcdonald, and various other small mines.
The Brown Bear is owned in part Zone
third by our former townsman, Charles
Watt, and one-third each by Henry Mar
tin Of Weayervilie and an estate of de-
ceased person. This Is valuable prop
erty and ! understand its owners very
properly refused an offer of $780, 1000 for it.
The Niagara is owned by San Francisco
capitalists, and is very profitable. The
Mcdonald mine is owned by the McDon-
aid Brothers and Franks. They run
fve-stamp mill last year and divided
$4,000 as the result They have re-
Gently put up ten-stamp mill and expect
to double their dividends next time. Next
comes the
NORTH FORK QUARTZ DISTRICT,
Situated twelve miles north of west from
Weaverville. Thissis a new district, and
a very large one. As there are no mills
in the district, the ore has all been worked
by arastras for the last two years. The