The record-union., 1897-08-19
Prospectors FIocking to the Fields
Of Rich Diggings.
Redding is Enjoying Its Share of the E1-
Citement.
Lost Lead Discovered by One
of Them Several Years Ago Ar
rive at Shasta's County Seat.

REDDING, Aug. 1S.-This was the
liveliest day in Redding since the ex-
citement began. One hundred and ten
men arrived on the morning train, and
Quitting is going on.
Bureaus of information have been
established, rigs and pack animals are
in demand, the stage company sent out
an extra stage yesterday afternoon
filled with passengers, and the demand
for rigs at blacksmith shops and sta
bles continues.
Inexperienced packers furnish lots of
fun with their bucking horses to on
lockers.
A special party came up to-day to go
to Salmon River to look for a lost lead
that one of them discovered several
years ago. The quartz was fabulously
rich, but was on occupied ground. The
discoverer covered up the find and
waited until the land was vacated.
Such being now the case, this party,
with lots of financial backing, under
the leadership of the discoverer, is on
the way to find this lead, which is
somewhere on Salmon River.
Franklin Shoup, a fruit grower of
Happy Valley, this county, has just
come down from the headwaters of
Coffee Greek. He took up load of
fruit, sold out and went prospecting,
located a claim on Steve Gulch, and in
a day and a, half tok out SIT. A miner
on the claim adjoining took out $50 in
the same length of time. AS the water
was low, Shoup stuck up his notices
and went home. He will visit his
claim later on, when water is more
plentiful.
William Truax has discovered a ledge
that promises to eclipse any of the dis
ccveries heretofore made in this vicin-
ity. Truax, accompanied by an actor
named Dillon, arrived yesterday after
noon. He camped just above the Davis
gravel mine, on Morrison Gulch. leaving
his partner to place their canvas home
in order He started out, pick in hand,
for a. preliminary survey of the land.
Shortly after sundown he found piece
of float in which gold could be plainly
seen. Looking carefully around, he de-
cided to investigate a slight promon-
tory further up the hill Before dark
he had discovered what turns out to
be a ledge.
He and his partner were at work soon
after daylight, and have stripped
enough of the sod and slide to make
them feel we'll satisfied with the result
of their visit to Trinity. The ledge is
over two feet wide. Every sample of
the rock prospects well. and in much of
it the precious metal is visible. TruaX
is from Cripple Creek. Dillon is well
known on the vaudeville stage. He was
one of the team of Dillon and Lynch.
He left an engagement in Sacramento
a few days ago to try his luck in the
mines. His meeting with Truax was
accidental. The ledge discovered is
above the Davis claim, from which good
money is now being taken, and below
| the Blue Jay claim of the Graves broth
ers and Henry Carter.
Gambling games are running full
blast in Trinity County, and everything
| is as in old mining days.
New Lodges of quartz are being un-
covered in several of the old mines and
location notices are being recorded by
the wholesale. Considerable of the land
in Trinity in the gold belt is owned by
the railroad company, but can be OBJ
tanned for So 80 an acre. Many are
ayailing themselves of that opportunity
| and instead of going to the fields and To-
|
road lands, and by so doing are assured
Of a perfectly clear title to their prop
erty.
John Gibson and w. w. Williams
have struck a ledge of free gold on the
north side of Coffee Creek opposite the
mouth of Morrison Gulch, which is said
to be five feet wide. The new copper
strike that has been reported happened
to be an old one-that is, about thirty
years old-but some carbonates of cop
per of good grade were shown.
Philip Schneitzer Of French Gulch
came in tonight and said he passed at
| least 100 men on the road. Schneitzer
! has mined all over Coffee Creek from
! its head to the mouth. He deprecates
| the excitement, yet maintains that Cof-
fee Creek and its tributaries have been
rich.
| H. w. Brooks has just returned from
| Coffee Creek. He. with two others.
own an extension of the Wagner mine
on the north side of the creek opposite
/ the mouth of Morrison Gulch. They
have run a tunnel forty feet, and their
ore is rich. 1t is claimed that the ore
| in Wagner's claim win assay thousands
/ of dollars to the ton.