The record-union., 1897-08-23

! tai and had tried it when it was worth
/ only 10 cents, and somehow he always
came out about the same end OF the
horn, whatever the price.
A large proportion of the grain grow
ers can testify to the same condition
of affairs on their own farms. but
where lies the fault? Not with the
land, or the prices of wheat. but with
| themselves. That there is a good profit
in wheat at 81 40 per Genital goes with
out saying. but the trouble has been
with many Of the farmers, that no
matter if at the end of the year the
| profit on their crop was So or $1,000
the bulk of it was spent, often for un-
necessary things or unprofitably in
vested in outside interests, so that when
wheat went down to 20 cents, the farm
| er had no resources or savings to draw
| from, and if he was in debt, it was
only question of time when he would
go to the wall The cure for this is
a more economic policy and the saving
OF the profit when prices are good, to
tide over the hard times when prices
are down. The majority of our farm
| ers could do this and still live well.
This policy might not be conducive to
the problem of putting more money in
| to circulation and the margins of those
| who expect to live off of their trans
actions with the farmers would no
doubt, be less, but the tillers of the
soil would soon be Independent and en-
| JOY more of the fruits of their labor
instead of working a lifetime for some
one else
WICKED LIES.
| Stockton Mail: Two miners, after
seven years continuous prospecting in
the hills of Trinity Country, have found
one of those rare formations known as
pockets. From this they have taken
81, 900 in gold. That is the whole truth
1t is thing that happens every month
or two. Within six weeks a richer pocket
was found by two men a mile from So
nora. Pockets are found, here and
there. along the whole reach of mining
country from Oregon to Mexico. But
they are rare formations and they do
not lie close together
| Now, on the finding of this ore pock-
| et the San Francisco newspapers have
built up sensational stories that make
miner laugh. The ignorance of any
stories glitters in its gorgeousness. A
| deliberate attempt has been made to
start rush of placer miners to Trim
ity The gulches along Coffee Creek
nave been pictured as alive with dust
and nuggets. A find of one single
pocket has been made the excuse for
such stuff as this, which we take from
the San Francisco Cali:
! california rises from her throne of
gold IN her garden Of paradise and un-
folds a glittering tale, in comparison
with which the history of the Northwest
territory mineral discoveries becomes
commonplace. She speaks with a glor-
icus voice like that which electrified all
countries in 40, and she points to fresh
gold fields in her domain as rich as any
the world has ever seen
| The strikes on Coffee Creek and Nor
rison Gulch, in Trinity County, are to-
day the wonder of the land. To dwarf
the stories of Yukon nuggets and build
a new record for the ages, r. B. and ].
b. Graves of Trinity, on Saturday last.
took from claim a gigantic slab of the
precious metal worth $4,000. While
the brothers were on their way to the
United States Mint in this city the news
came that on the day after their de-
parture from Coffee Creek $40. 900
more in gold dust and nuggets was
taken out of their mine in less than
five hours. This is only the beginning.
for there is plenty of gold in sight on
every hand.
! Nobody in Trinity County is talking
or Yukon placers now. Wehave new gold
fields in California that eclipse the Klon-
d1ke placers. 1t is here that We shall
md the fleece of gold Here is the real
I'll Dorado. All the disooverers of the
new claims were Woodworking men: to-
DAY they are regarded as millionaires"
Now, then, all this is a lie We
speak from personal knowledge And
| 1t is a. wicked and inexcusable lie, by
which more than one Industrious man
! VIII be tempted to leave his job and
lose his money and labor in exploring
gulches in which, so far from there be-
ing plenty of gold in sight on every
hand, there are some poor placers,
nearly all on patented land, and some
quartz ledges which poor man cannot
do anything with. Ask any honest
man in Redding or any other part of
Trinity County if this is not So
These newspapers have gone further
in this villainous work. They have
deliberately manufactured stories of
rich finds in which there is not a word
OF truth. They have printed accounts
| of Murphy and Burgess taking out
SSU,0UO in two days. Picturesque de-
Iscr1pt1ons We're given of the men going
mad with delight, of them tearing at
the gold with their fingers, examining
it into boots sacks and every other
thing that a prospector would not put
dust in The find of these two men
was exactly $40. an error of only $79,-
$50. That's a pretty good lie for even
a yellow sheet
| These papers have printed long de-
scriptions of a find of $4,000 made by
the man Carter, left by the Graves
brothers in charge of their mine. Mr..
Carter says he hasn't found 10 cents,
that he has not stuck pick into the
ground, in fact
The gigantic slab the Cali de-
seribes, dwindles from $42, 600 to $1S,000
and it was not a slab either. Miners do
not find slabs
THE TRINITY FAKE.
Stockton Mail: The utter unreliable
ity of the San Francisco papers was
never mere striking1y shown than in
their accounts of the Trinity County
mining region They have had coll
umns Of fake stuff, alleging that "fabu-
] lous strikes" had been made. Fabu-
lous is good word in this connection.
The whole thing is a fake Two min
| or