The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-11
RIVAL THE
KLOuDIKE
GOLDBBDS
Remarkable Strikes in
Shasta and Trinity
Counties.
SINGLE POCKET YIELDS
UOE ,OOO'
Lucky DISCOVERIES Made Inde-
pendently Rich by One
Days Work.
MEN LEAVE REDDING WITH
SACKS OF NUGGETS. -
The Graves Brothers, Who Found
Wealth on Coffee Creek, S.art
for San Francisco.
Lucky DISCOVERIES Made Inde-
pendently Rich by One
Days Work.
MEN LEAVE REDDING WITH
SACKS OF NUGGETS. q.
The Graves Brothers, Who Found
Wealth on Coffee Creek, S art
for San Francisco.

REDDING, CAL, Aug. l0.-Right on
the heels of the $42, 900 strike on Morrison
GuIch, Trinity County, comes the report
of another and even greater gold dis
coyery at the head of Coffee Creek, Of
which stream Morrison Gulch Is branch.
Two miners named Murphy and Burgess
have for six months past been prospecting
along Coffee Creek with more or less sue
cess Yesterday their efforts were re-
warded with a veritable bonanza, and to-
day they can class themselves with the
most wealthy of the Klondike kings.
They discovered in one pocket $S2, 900 in
pure gold, and there is Sn unlimited
quantity of the same yellow metal In
sight. They are at present ''pannIng
out" the dirt, and outside of the pocket it
pays all the way from $50 to $500 to
pan.
These prospectors are expected in Red
ding tomorrow with their find. From
here they will go to San Francisco to take
their gold to the Mint. Their claim is no
doubt one of the richest in the State.
r. B. Graves and ]. B. Graves came into
Redding this afternoon with $4,000
in nuggets and amalgam in two canvas
bags. They shipped $23. 900 yesterday
from Galatians, and they boarded to-
nights overland train for San Francisco.
THE CALL correspondent interviewed the
Graves brothers to-day. Their story read
like a romance. In 1890 they went to
Trinity County with forty head of cattle.
Thirty-nine were lost ana with one COW
as their total stock possession they took
up adjoining farms on Government land.
In 1895 they located gold claim on
Coffee Creek, and after taking out pocket
OF $500 and finding nothing moro they
went down the creek short distance and
took up placer claim. This they were
offered $3.50 for within a few months.
They accepted the offer and went back to
the farm.
On August 2 they returned to the Blue
Jay, their first claim, and on Saturday,
August, while iabbing the face Of their
abandoned tunnel, and within two inches
OF the place where they had left off WORK
in 1895, they opened pocket out OF which
they extracted over 200 pounds (troy
weight) of gold. The younger brother
had taken a pan of dirt to the creek
when the other came running to him
with goldpan In which was about $4,000
of yellow metal.
We've got enough for all of u.s." he
yelled at the top of his voice.
I've $500 pan here myself" replied
the younger man.
Within tweniy-four hours they look out
about $4,000.
Old miners say the pocket is ledge.
The rock adjoining the pocket runs from
$3.50 to $500 ton. The vein can be traced
for thousands of feet on the surface.
Crowds are flocking to Shasta and Trinity
counties. The lucky brot els will go
back and work their claim next week.
Liverymen, stage lines, freight teams and
hotel men of Shasta and Trinity ars doing
q booming business.
The Graves strike was made eight miles
northwest of Trinity Center, Redding be-
ing the nearest railroad station.