The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-14
OUR W NEW GOLD FIELD
CALIFORNIA HAS a KLoNDIKB FOE
ALI WHO CAN'T 60 NORTH.

Trinity County Shows . Series OF Rich Strikes
and Miners Are EurryinE to tho Coneo
Creek Dirtrict-Goid In Pockets ana Mug
gets aud Every other ~styIe-SaoO In . Pan,
SAN Francisco, Aug. 13.-Reports from Red
ding, In Shasta county. say that for thirty
years tho place has seen no mining excitement
equal to that which has stirred the town since
tho Graves brothers drove in on their blackboard
ON last Tuesday with their $4,000 nugget
Stories Of rich finds In pockets had come In for
several days from Weaverville and other parts
Of Trinity county. but they were regarded as
exaggerated until tho two brothers brought In
gold to prove the truth Of their words.
1t was u repetition Of the Klondike. No ono
nut any faith in the stories OF enormous finds
brought to Juneau by Mail Carrier Carr
last winter. 1t was only when miners returned
on the Excelsior with their treasure that Cali
fornia went wild with the gold fever. In this
city there are hundreds of disappointed persons
who were unable to get passage to the Yukon,
and many of these are making arrangements to
try their luck at prospecting in the new Trinity
county bonanza. Snow does not fly in Trinity
before the end OF October. so they have two
months and a half yet for work before cold
weather will come. 1t does not require much
money for outfit, and fare to the new district
from this city is only S1s. Inquiry to-day
showed that many prospectors have departed
already for the new camp and that others will
follow them soon.
All the mining districts along the foothills have
furnished their quota, SO Redding is already
overrun with strangers. and its stores are doing
q rushing business in supplying outfits and
tools. From all parts of Shasta county old
miners have focked in and taken the road for
the north. Every day brings stories Of fresh
finds, which add to the excitement. The San
Francisco mint reports Trinity gold as worth
1856 an ounce, which is about So moro an
ounce than Elondike gold. The new mining
district ia nm the divide between Trinity and the
Siskiyou Mountains and near the head of the
Salmon River. IT "a ao3 miles from this CITY
perhpps the hest description Of the country
and of the methods of working mines Ia given by
Richard Crave. who "a INV here Eo .sid their
claim covered pinety.six acres. and he would
NOT exchange II for ANYTHING on the Klondike.
He added.
.There ia a ledge of Quartz on the surface ex-
tending 800 feet, which runs northeasterly and
pouthwesterly all within our land. The pockets
already reported are the only ones yet found on
the ledge. but we expect to strike It still richer.
We have tupnelled on side hills on the level.
but had run in not more than twenty feet when
we came on nugyets. The pockets are on the
wall between green and yellow porphyry. In
tcrvening is good milling ore, which we shall
pile in dumps and when the time arrives we shall
nut up n mill and work 1t. For the present
our attention will be confined to mug.
gets that we may find in pockets. Our
find was a good deal of n surprisc. II ia true we
had como across n,poets ranging from n few
dollars to 81. 600 last season. hut when we went
IN work IN tho ledpe Il soon n,ncbed and We felt
discouraged. Then we picked around in the
rrlcb without much result. Finally It was de-.
cided tn go nm and run A tunnel on the ledge. We
hnd No iSoa ~ What y.s onmina h,,, =, on.nad
- -
c,pn,ered.
that point nre two seams that din toward
each other. A pocket, miner who has worked
all over tho United States, tells us that where
those seams meet we shall ger money That IA
forty or fifty feet away yet from where we are
at present. Our gold ledge. where It disappears
at the surface 800 feet away. runs IN apainst a
ledge Of iron eighty feet wide. and there we ex-
me- ct to find another big pocket"
Since the brothers left their claim Henry Car
ter, their partner. has taken out 500 900 from
another rich pockct. This makes n tota, outnnt
of the mine in little over one week Of s,os GOO
Offers for their mine have been made to the
Graves brothers. but baye been refpsed as tbev
saw the mine is worth IA much To them AZ 70
any one else. There ia nlentv ot land in the
neighborhood of Coffee Creek which has not
been taken nm. for, though many nrosnectors
bavs hoen IN that nart ~ T-;nitr oonutr thon
gancraTv have kent in the troiJs - tho Sarnor
River md few have eYnIorsd tho sido o,Iohas
Iits tint IN which the recent rIch di.oovarios
have boen made
Rvron Blackburn who OWNS the sawmin nj m,
head of Coffee Creek. broupbt tn Reading ths
first full details of "A rich strike made bv Rurpes,
and Murphy. two Door prospectors. on Hickory
Creek, fifteen miles from the Graves brothers
bonanza. He said.
"The entire population of the Coffee Creek dis
trict have gone mad over the recent rich dis
coveries. Immediately following the discover,
Of the pocket In the Blue Jay mine or Morrison
Gulch by the Graves brothers came a rich
strike on Hickory Creek. Henry Carroll wa,
taking out some rich quartz from a weir
on Hickory Creek, when two prospectors
Murphy and Burgess, came along ant
made INQUIRIES as to the digging. Carol