The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-23
BOOMING COFFEEVILLE.
Rivals AmaIgam ate and the New
ToWnsite VIII Be Laid Out on an
Elaborate Scale.

Rivals AmaIga ate and the New
Townsite VIII Be Laid Out on an
Elaborate Scale.
CARRVILLE, CAL, Aug. 22.-The town
of Coffeeville will be laid out in the morn
ing ard doomed at noon.
The rival townsite boomers amalga-
mated to-day and it is agreed that the new
townsite shall include the eighty acres be-
longing to George L. Carr adjoining the
property OF the Graves brothers and also
the 100 acres belonging 20 the latter.
Z. T. Casey of Randsburg. one OF
the original boomers of that place and
earlier of Guthrie and Cripple Creek, re-
tains his partnership with Carr. and will
be the leading boomer. He has tele-
graped to Randsburg for some of the
sporting fraternity of that now quiet place
10 come right up and start the town.
1t is the theory that dance hall and
gambling house are the first requisites in
booming a new mining town.
A special effort to sell lots in San Fran
cisco will be made. The new place will be
on the old Oregon stage road on the west
bank of the Trinity, at the mouth OF
Coffee Creek and six miles north Of Trinity
Center.
a new stage road across to the railroad
by a shorter route is talked of. The
future of the town depends on what will
follow.
A reliable mining man returned to-day
from Hickory Gulch. at the other end of
Coffee Greek, with the report that Burgess
and Murphy are driving an open cut into
the hill where they made their strike and
are taking out a good deal OF gold with
heir rockers in a crude way.
He says thai he saw about 250 pounds
of the dirt and soft rock put through the
rocker and that the wed was fully an
ounce or about $50. This material was
not taken from the peculiar ledge of soft
porphyry, but from about five feet Of the
formation, including both ledge and wal Is,
and about half of the material went uu-
ground and undissolved in the dump
where it is saved for future working.
Constable Moxiey OF Sisklyou Coun ty
stated that the day before he had washed
about $3.50 from one pan of selected dirt.
The richness of the Burgess and Murphy
strike, as far as mere surface indications
60, has not been much exaggerated but
the amount taken out has been. When
saw the find week ago less than cubic
yard of dirt and rock had been moved al
together, and at that time the amount of
gold actually washed out of this material
was about $240 and not $4,000. as tn
growing rumor had it.
Since then they have been building a
cabin and trai! and path from the mine
200 feet down the hill to spring, over
which the material is now hauled to the
rocker on sled by mule.
They have Just fairly begun regular
work and may possibly have taken out
$1,000 by this time. They are about to
start a tunnel in the continuance Of what
is now an open cut.
Yesterday Donovan, who has had a
quite promising ledge of quartz on the
west side of Hickory Gulch, struck rich
rock in sinking the ledge.
Thomas Riley, who recently located a
claim. a mile or so east OF the Burgess and
Mulpny location claims to have found q
good ledge foot wide, two miles east,
down Coffee Creek.
DIR. E. w. Bathurst OF Aetna mills, in
Scott Valley, Siskiyou County. visited
Trinity Center to-day and reported that q
man named Stewer had found ledge of
quartz running 500 to the ton in Whites
gulch, on the north fork of the Salmon
river, twenty miles west of Aetna mills
and thirty miles northwest Of Hickory
Creek in an air line.
He had also heard in passing that good
quartz had been struck on Grass Creek, on
the east fork of the Scott River.
81 saw Murphy, the partner of BURGESS,
Yesterday, said the doctor. "He was on
his way back from Dunsmuir.
Last year when he was working as
a ranch hand in Scott Valley took out a
finger JOINT for him and he stopped at
Etna Mills and paid his bill. Ali he said
about his mine was that he believed he
had all he wanted"
A mining expert from Salt Lake is try
ing to negotiate the purchase OF the Blre
Jay mine from the Graves brothers ana
Carter. If the property is not sold the
Graves boys will begin tunneling for more
pockets as soon as their townsite matters
are got fairly going.
Nearly 100 men to-day REINFORCED the
600 OIL Coffee Creek. Among the outfits
were a special stage. bearing seven, and
two wagon loads, one of eleven gold.
seekers and their supplies.
About dozen started home disguised
to-day, after having put in from two days
to a week on Coffee Creek and having
found no gold on the trees.
J. O. DENNY.