The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22
Two Thousand Gold-Hunters
Are Now Located in
Trinity County.
SOME PROMISING LEDGES ARE
REPORTED.
Mines That VIII Yield Well by q
Steady, Gradual DeVelopme
Warning to Rushers.

CARRVILLE, CAL, Aug. M-A new
strike on Hickory Creek was reported to-
day by man who came over the road on
his way to Redding for some money. He
is George A. Noonan, an old prospector,
who lives at Happy Camp, on the hla-
math River, and who has been prospect
ing all over the northern part OF the State.
Two weeks ago he went into Hickory
Gulch, and ne says that he has found a
ledge that is rich in free gold. He reports
that the upper end of the Coffee Greek
Canyon is alive with prospectors.
The boomers have arrived, and to- NOR
row morning the town of Coffee Creek
will be staked out on part OF the two
eighty-acre tracts owned by the Graves
brothers. The townsite is on a small fiat
at the junction of Coffee Creek and the
Trinity River 1t is q romantic place,
covered with forests and underground,
except where the Graves brothers have
cleared garden spots, and about it the
mountains rise steep and high. Two days
ago Casey got here with a Coffeeville
townsite scheme, and has been nego-
tiating a townsite deal with George L.
Carr, proprietor of Carrville, who owns
eighty acres adjoining the Graves broth
ers' property on the Trinity River, well
located on the very narrow river bottom.
While Casey was figuring, however,
three boomers caught the Graves brothers
al Redding, and got them to sign an air.
tight contract involving their land. and
they arrived with the Graves brothers this
afternoon. One is a. R. Wills of San
Francisco, another is V. V. Ritter of that
place, and the third is Fred Grotefend, ex-
cashier of the First National Bank of
Redding. They have the town plated,
have promises for the sale of several lots,
and will stake out the streets in the morn
Ing. A saloon will be established in tent
as quickly as possible, and every possible
move will be made to rush ahead the es-
tablishment of town before Casey and
Carr can get CoffeeviIle started few hun
dred yards away.
The new boomers at first decided on
the name of GraVesville, but this evening g
one OF them thought of Cripple Creek and
the name was changed to Coffee Creek.
The new camp will be right at the mouth
OF Coffee Creek, on the old Oregon stage
road, along the west bank OF the Trinity
Center, six miles south, and to the north
Callag hans ranch is twenty-five miles
away.
The new town at the mouth of Coffee
Creek will see a brief mushroom growth
dependent on the extent and endurance of
the early rush, which is yet in its early
stages, according to the present indica-
cations. 1t will be not more than a small
country town permanently, and its future
will depend on the wholly unknown and
promising future of quartz mining in this
section. Mr.. Grotefend has already ar
ranged to move sawmiIl to Coffee Creek.
The Graves brothers are contemplating
a large hotel, ana the boomers are trying
to get somebody to start dance-haIl. The
Graves brothers drove from Redding in
fine new buggies and brought all kinds of
new dresses and pretty things for the
women and the little ones. They treat
with contempt the story that $1,000 was all
they took out of the big pocket and de-
clined to enter into any detailed explana-
tions. More people than ever were over in
Coffee Creek to-day. This forenoon teams
carrying rushers and their outfits stopped
at once at Trinity Center, and those who
had driven rapidly from Redding reported
that fifty outfits were passed on the way.
This morning three working-girls arrived
from San Francisco at Trinity Center with
not money enough left to go back.
They expected it to be easy to find
work, but are not very likely to do so.
William Vollmers, the hotel proprietor,
receives dozen applications by letter a
day for work as cooks, WATERS and so on.
and there is growing food OF inquiries
from all sorts of working people, as well
as from people who want to open business
in ali sorts of lines 1t should be known
that there is employment for nobody
here, and if the rash should develop busi-
ness in a small way there will be twenty
people for every job. Before this little
rush began there was never employment
for stranger throughout the surround
ing region. Only practical miners could
come into Upper Trinity and Siskiyou
and Shasta counties with a show to get
wages in the few working quartz mines,
and then they would be very lucky to get
a Job. There is no industry but mining,
and that is in an early stage OF develop
ment.
ll6 people HnO dlO l0ouAi9 III AClc now
will nearly all stay but a few weeks, and
they are. nearly all camping for twenty
miles along Coffee Creek. Soon their
mum bers will spread to adjacent regions,
probably just as good for prospecting and
investment. The additions to the popu-
lation will be comparatively small on the
start, though the mining development at
hand will steadily increase the popula-
tion. There is nothing here for man
who docs not come prepared to camp in
the delightful canyons, buy his pro-
visions and get out of the country when
he gets ready if he does not want to stay.
No one should come here looking tor e m
ployment The trip and the staying in
the woods are cheap enough and the
waters and the hills will repay him who
can afford it. a san Francisco lady got