Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1890-10-04
PLACER MINING.
SOME FACTS RELATING TO A LE-
CLIMATE ENTERPRISE.
Colonel r. W. Brooks Talks About Big
Slice of Rich Gold Placer Dirt in Trim
ity County.

Colonel L. w. Brooks, OF Pomona,
was in the city yesterday. He has been
a resident of Pomona for several years,
and is thoroughly we'll known in this
county. He was boomer in the boom
days, and since then has turned his
attention to his old bushes of mining.
He has the highest testimonials from
many of the capitalists of st. Louis, his
old home, bearing witness to his know
ledge of legitimate mining. Being met
on the street by a HERALD reporter,
and asked what he was now driving at
these days, he developed the above
facts.
But the reporter objected that there
was not so much interest taken here in
mines as there ought to be. and the
Colonel said that this was so, but that
he proposed to create an interest. and
noted the following facts to show why
this interest ought to exist. He said:
"Let us take bit of property up in
Trinity county which l have explored
myself. And before l do this let me re-
mind you of the valuable mining prop
erty owned by St. Louis people, and the
immense wealth that is poured into
their Golfers from these enterprises.
What is there to say against
the people of any city owning a
dividend paying mine? am
not advocating dabbling in mining
stocks. l am speaking of buying prop
erty whose intrinsic value can be ascer-
tanned as nearly as that of farm or
house and lot. Nor is the metal OBJ
tanned from such mine the only bene-
fit to the city where it is owned. This
wealth always leads to the building up
of other enterprises. The Granite Noun
tain mine, owned by St. Louis people,
has produced br them twelve or fifteen
million dollars, and this money has
been spent in building up foundries.
rolling mills, and all sorts OF industries.
snow to come back to my property.
There is tract of 900 acres of hydraul-
ic placer mining grounds up in Trinity
county, that has been carefully exam
ined by the best experts and accurate
estimates made by myself, and l know
a mine thoroughly have been at the
business for forty years, as these testi-
monials from capitalists in Philadelphia,
Denver, st. Louis and the other cities
will show.
"Now, here is report have made on
the property, which you may read at
your leisure and it will convince you of
the correctness to all claim for this
property"
Here are the facts condensed from the
report referred to:
1t is a claim to 900 acres oil. rich gold
placer mining ground. 1t seems to con-
tain all the elements for successful oper-
alton. These elements, as is well known,
are abundance of water, fall for the
sluices, pressure to apply to work the
gravel and space to dispose of the debris.
OF course it is presupposed> that the title
is perfect SO as to give the indisputable
right to work the ground. The report
shows all these prerequisites to attach
to the property in question.
The property is at the upper end of
Coffee creek, Trinity county, California.
1t includes all of the bottom land, 700
feet wide by seven miles long. It is the
bed of very ancient river and is now
in a most advantageous condition to
work.
The history of mines in these old river
beds in California is too recent to need
repetition. The stories of the fabulous
wealth taken from them is too familiar
to be news. The Blue Lead, in this
state, extended across two or three coun-
ties, and it is estimated that this old
river bed produced first and last 70
million dollars. In the Big Bend of
Feather river, in Butte county, a million
dollars was spent to drain the water off
so that the old bed could be worked. In
the case of the river bed referred to here
no such expense is necessary. Nature
has done all that. The river at this
time turns off at the head OF this valley
absolutely at right angle.
Nor is this guess work. The claim
has been worked. Out of one and half
acres of the ground SIS, 300 was washed.
This work was done by Mr.. Nash,
whose testimony is most explicit on this
point. Another test was made at another
point by j. E. Carr. He worked space
of sixty by forty feet and took out 81 ,73S.
All along Coffee Creek the gulches
emptying into the main stream were
worked and found very rich.
After reading over the report and
cleaning out the above facts, Colonel
Brooks said to the reporter:
Nov, am not offering anyone pig
in poke. What desire is to get men
of means interested enough to go on the
spot with their experts and satisfy them
| selves as tn the valua Of this prOnertv ,;