The record-union., 1897-08-18

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REDDING, Aug. 17.-Some forty
prospectors arrived this morning on the
train, and they are generally of a hardy
class. At the rate they are going into
the diggings Coffee Greek and its tribu-
taries viii be prospected as never be-
fore. Northeastern Trinity is a rough
country but there is no section SO
promising for prospectors, for when you
do strike it you strike it rich.
Reports state that Murphy and Bur-
CESS are taking out a great deal of gold
from the seam diggings on Hickory
Gulch. Their claim is away UP on the
side Of the mountain, and While they
have not made specially rich strikes,
yet if the seams hold out they viii ac-
cumulate quite a fortune.
Seam prospecting holds out the
greatest inducements to the poor min
er, as no capital is required but labor,
While gravel mining requires more or
less outlay for pumps and machinery.
Both rich and poor have a show. There
are propositions for both. We are in
formed that 300 miners viii reach here
tomorrow from Oakland, and it viii
tax the resources of our outfitters and
transportation companies. Stages are
crowded every morning, and a few are
going in on foot. Pack animals are in
demand. Hotels and business houses
are ali reaping a harvest.
DAY OF BIG FINDS OVER.
REDDING, Aug 17.-There was a
perceptible increase to-day in the num-
Der of passengers bound for Coffee
Greek. The extra coaches put on to-day
for the first time We're all crowded full.
Yesterdays coach is laid up for repairs
to-day on account of having more than
it could stand. 1t is estimated con-
servatively that there are forty stran-
gers here now getting outfits together to
go by any conveyance they can get.
The crowd is made up of prospectors
carrying rolls of blankets and the we'll
dressed man of affairs all are going in,
and none have coiae back
The day Of big finds is over; the
phenomenal discovery of big nuggets
is not likely to be repeated soon. But
the great prominence given the Graves
brothers nugget, and similar finds
since made, viii act as a stimulus to
thorough prospecting and development
of the whole Of Trinity County, and
give the mining industry an awakening
it would otherwise not have had for
years to come.
MANY PROSPECTORS COMING.
TRINITY CENTER, Aug. ia con-
servative estimate places the number
of new corners at less than a thousand,
a majority coming afoot and by pack
from Oregon. From Redding the stage
Sc
is expected to increase, as all arrivals
speak Of more coming. No boom prices
prevail here, despite the fact that the
stores are doing good business.
THE COFFEE CREEK DISTRICT.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-THE en-
tire course of Coffee Creek. from its
headwaters to its confluence with Trim
ity River, lies within the limits of the
grant to the California and Oregon
Railroad Company. Some of the alter
nate odd-numbered sections along the
course of Coffee Greek are patented to
the railroad company, and the question
as TO the policy which will be pursued
by the railroad concerning this land
possesses public interest. A represen-
tattve of the Post" visited the land
department of the Central Pacific Rail-
road Company and obtained the fol-
lowing interview from William H. Mills
the land agent of the company. who
has immediate charge of the property.
Mr. Mills said:
THE policy which will be pursued
by the railroad company is plainly in
dicated in a dispatch sent this morning
10 the Redding Free Press This
was sent IN answer to an inquiry from
the locality. This is the dispatch:
August II. 1S97.-The Free Press
BEDDING, CAL
Any patented land belonging to the
Central Pacific Railroad Company any
where on or near Coffee Creek. from its
headwaters TO its junction with Trinity
River. is for sale at s. 50 per acre in
quarter section subdivisions for general
purposes unless the land ras mer-
chantable timber, in which case a tim
ber valuation viii be placed on the land
If the timber growing on the
land is suitable only for min
ing purposes, the price of s. 1t
per acre viii be adhered to. notwfth-
standing the presence of timber. Pros
pectors who think that they have found
mineral on patented land can buy forty
acre SQDUlNlSfOES dt - sbN per acre
First occupant will be deemed the pre-
ferred purchaser. AS relates to ode
numbered sections unpatented. tbs
company viii relinquish its granted IL
tie in forty-acre subdivisions without
charge to any one who viii discover q
mine on the land relinquished, and
show that he has the best mining right
as against other mining claimants"
An experience of fifteen years con
tinued Mr. Mills. has accustomed us
10 periodical eXcitenents over gold dis
coveries in various parts Of the State
The excitement stimulates discovery
The Coffee Creek region is not new
and the mine in which the alleged S42
600 nugget was found was surveyed il
1874, and patented under the name O
the Morrison Gulch mine in 1884.
1T was mined prior to 1874 The frs
mineral discoveries We're made there a
early as 1870 so that this mine has beer
known and worked for twenty sever
years. The mine is located in section
13 Of township 81 north range 5 west
1t lies south Of Coffee Creek and abou
three miles from the junction Of tha'
creek with Trinity River. In a straight