The San Francisco call., 1897-08-18
SCENES OF
FORlY-N[NE
REPEATED
Continued from First Page.

reports from along the rOau DV paSseTS.Dy
are the main sources of fresh information,
so the rush is real lzed only when it gets
here.
A prospector who unslung his pack this
morning for a few minutes rest told that
eleven came to Trinity Center from Red
ding on the stage with him yesterday and
that special and private conveyances,
men carrying their packs, men on horse
back and men leading pack mules are
strung all along the road from Redding
There is red-headed young fellow down
the road somewhere who is coming on
bicycle with his outfit strapped behind
his saddle. 1t is a marvellous bicycle feat.
When he crossed the summit OF the Irln-
ity mountains he tied heavy brush d be-
hind Tor a brake and made i've miles IN
about twenty minutes. About nifty went
in this way yesterday.
II. a. Osborne of Los Angeles stopped
here this morning en- route to Co1ee
Creek. He was about to start to look
after his mining interests in Arizona
when he was caught in the Trinity rush.
He comes from Redding with pack horses
and com panion and is about to paralyze
At this moment he is at the watering
trough panning out chunk OF Burgess
and Murphy's rotten porphyry, which he
has been grinding in mortar.
Up here with the Coffee Greek rush it
seems the most romantic thing that is 60
ing on in California. Marvellous is the
contrast with its rival OF the Klondike,
and the further into the mountains OF
Trinity County one gets tne more does one
wonder that men of horse sense will leave
greater chances OF mining success in
miners paradise near home for the cost.
the woe and the remote chances OF the icy
Yukon. There are no forbidding features
10 this invasion, except the hard and pa
tient toll that specially goes with pros
pecting here, and the moral certainty that
big majority will fail to get rich.
AS one mingles with the early rushers
by the trail and gulches along Coffee Creek
itself he enjoys a picture OF camp life in
which there is nothing of the common
place, and natures setting of the picture
charms the most prosaic. They plod
along the hillside in the fresh morning,
in the heat and dust of midday and
through the delicious evening hours. If
one starts out alone he picks up partner
soon. They bend under big rolls of blan-
kets and provisions. Pickbandles stick
out from under the bundle-straps and
some carry their goldpans hanging at
their sides. They make up their bundles
in all sorts OF ways, and frying-pan and
coffeepot jangle from one fellows back.
One young fellow. not yet sunburned.
carries a camera. Dozens thus troop
along. They have no spur but the gold
ahead and the clearest, coldest spring that
can bless a wanderer, for thus everywhere
by the roadside, from among ferns and at
their sweet will they drink and rest in the
cool shade near the Trinity.
Those afoot are they who cannot afford
a cheap mule or burro. Those who can
sport donkeys bless the eye with more
charming pictures. Some have one pack
animal and walk themselves, and they
would constitute the better middle class
on Coffee Creek if classes existed, but the
millionaire who goes into canyon with
four mules to look after mines to bond is
no better than the horrible fellow with a
few'pounds of beans and goldpan. Then
there are others well equipped with horse
or mule to ride and one or two pack ami
mas apiece They carry tents complete
and camping outfits. Guns and picks
stick out of their big pack. Goldpans
hang by the mules sides, the handles of
frying-pans stick out. and bags OF -four,
cans of condensed milk and sides of bacon
hang on pack-saddes. Thus they troop
along the highway from RedGing, across
Shasta County, over the Trinity Noun
tains and on to Coffee Creek.
Above Carrville mile or so the process
sion turns to the lett by the Graves ca bin
and plunges into the narrow gorge twenty
five miles long which Coffee Creek has
dug. The stream is torrent tial its whole
course, and its bed is everywhere a mass
of powders. There is not stretch OF 100
feet in the whole course over which the
water is not churned to foam.
In this lower course the level bottom of
this canyon is i'll places several hundred
feet wide, but it is much narrower above.
Along both sides creeks enter from deep
gorges. The hillsides rise precipitousy
from 500 to 10000 feet and are everywhere
thicKly set with pines and other conifers.
There is wealth of vegetation and along
the creek banks the big pines shade little
jungles The trail is path foot wide,
making narrow shelf on the canyon side
through bees of powders up. down and
around and along the upper course 300 or
400 feet above the roaring stream, into
which one could toss a stone from his sad
die over the tops OF tall pines. wealth
of springs pour forth their water and up
and down the canyon lofty crags and
peaks meet the eye.
1t is blessed and inspiring to ride that
frightful trail. AS the rushers pass slowly
up this canyon they stop to rest as the
spirit moves and they stop to camp any,
where by the stream. A few feet away is
a mess of trout for supper. Pack animals
are turned loose on feast, blankets are
spread, patches OF baking.powder bread
are quickly mixed and baked in gold pans.
and bacon and trout are soon hot in fry
ng-pans. Here and there along the creek
are few cabins in which miners live.
In riding the length of Coffee Creek one
should enjoy the delightful vaeabondage
of Coffee Creek prospectors. More than
200 have found Coffee Greek now. a large
number go first up Morrison Creek to the