The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
Still Another Good Thing Is
Said to Have Been
Discovered.
THIS ON THE NORTH FORK OF
THE NOTED STREAM.
While the New ToWnsite Is Being
Doomed, Gold-Seekers Con-
tlnue to Invade Trinity.

CARRVILLE, CAL, Aug. %. - Two
young men came to Trinity Center to-
day with the news of a valuable quartz
find made by them in the hills on the
east side of the Trinity River, two and
half miles from the mouth OF Cotfee
Creek. One is Tory Peterson, young
man who has spent several years in the
mining regions of the West and who for
four years has been prospecting through
Northern California and Southern Ore
gon, taking up claim now and then and
making a few dollars, but never making
q strike until now. Two months ago he
formed a partnership with Charles Rug
giles, young man from Woodland, who
has been prospecting two years with little
success. They went to Scorpion Greek,
across the river, a little above Carrville,
and found a ledge, on which they located
July s.
They have worked long level, opening
their find, and saying nothing about their
success until to-day. They have been
working with spring mortar for several
weeks, and it has been known that they
were taking out enough to pay expenses
by this arrangement, which consists of q
heavy mortar and pestle suspended by a
sapiing.
They report that they have run q fifty
foot tunnel across the ledge several hun
dred feet below the point of discovery.
and that they have an eight-foot ledge
which averages $50 to the ton, and that
small pieces of rock are enormously rich.
They say that they also have traces
which indicate a still richer pay chute
further below. The ledge hes porphyry
walls, hard on one side and soft on the
other. This find is close to the widely
known Strobe mine and the ledge and
formation are similar. The two claims
which cover the ledge on either side of
ridge are named the Lost Horse and the
Rattlesnake. The young men to-day had
with them small specimens OF quartz
very rich in free gold and $40 button,
which they said came from about ten
pounds of rock.
Another purported find on Coffee Creek
itself is told of to-day by W. W. Robinson,
2 mining expert and operator at Redding,
who has received word from J. Gibson
that he has found big thing on the
north fork OF Coffee Creek. Robinson is
on his way TO Gibson's find to examine it
in response to the summons. Nothing else
is known about it.
story TO the effect that Henry Carter
has taken $4,000 out of another pocket
in the Blue Jay mine was given
out to-day, but it is more than
suspected that the story is merely
told to help along the boom of Coffee
vile on the Graves brothers ranch and
the adjoining property. Dick Graves to-
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bottom of the tunnel in the night within
three or four days. All Graves will yet
say about the story that only SIS COO
was taken out of the big pocket instead OF
$40, 900 is that less than half of it was
taken to the city. The rest is hidden here
and will be in the city within a week. He
says that $17, 800 was received for the gold
deposited in the Mint, and that nearly
$50, 900 is yet to go to market.
Henry Carter and John Graves went to
Weaverville to-day and took some gold,
said to amount to about $1,000. They
went partly to satisfy Henry Carter's de-
mands that his third interest in the Blue
Jay nuggets and property be formally
recognized and legally recorded. Carter
has been in general family partnership
with the Graves brothers for years, and
there was never any question about his
interest or any jars to the peaceful flow of
industrious life until the big nugget was
found and made things different.
When Carter heard that in the City
John Graves had been telling the news
papers that he had no interest in the Blue
Jay pocket and the mine he was alarmed
and blue, though he could not believe it,
nso1y r-h1
honest young fellow had lived and worked
for eight years. When John Graves
reached Trinity Center on his way home
he told me very decidedly that Carter had
no color of ownership in the Blue Jay that
was binding that he would have 20
get lawyer, but when the boys all talked
it over for day Carter's claim seems to
have been recognized, and it was mainly
TO settle it that John Graves and Carter
went to Weaverville to-day. Carter had
no written agreements. but he had gen.
eral partnership in mining affairs which
he could establish and there is a mess of
equities on the side. Carter seems likely
to get his share peacea bly, after all.
E.T. Jones, a mining expert and opera
tor at Salt Lake City, is trying to bond
the Blue Jay mine. Mr.. Casey and sur
yevor set out some stakes for the new
town of Coffeeville to-day. beginning at
the picket fence around Dick Graves
front ward. The boom of the town has
not begun to assume size yet, but may do
SO in small way when the saloon is
opened in few days.
e. a Hubert, manager OF summer re-
sort at Sisson, who is nephew OF &. Z.
Huntington, has been about here pros
pecting, and to-day be picked up some
very rich float on the mountain back OF
Carrville. He mortared and panned the
gold out with Joy, and sent for mining
man TO help him find the ledge. The in
ward rush was not as heavy to-day as was
nnticinated owing To vester rdaY being