The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-20
RICH AS KLONDYKE
NEW GOLD FIELDS OF TRINITY
COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.

Up Among the Noun tains the Great, Bill
Nuggets Lie Thick, II Only One Knew
Where, and SO Big That the Klopdvk'
Needs to Look to It's Laureis. or ArctI'
Moss, as the Case May BeeBig Rush Il
the Northern California District-Som,
of the Alluring Stories Told of Larg,
Nuggets Found.
San Francisco, Cal, Aug. 19.-In year:
10 come generations now living will sing
Of the days Of 81 even as the gray-hair-
ed pioneers of today sng Of the golden
days Of '49. Trinity County, California
is the newes. and richest E. Dorado OF
| them all. Fabulous reports Of riches
| found there are attracting hundreds ond
| thousands of fortune hunters.
There are nuggets Of gold in Trinity
| County that are fortunes in themselves.
There are golden powders near the head
OF the Salmon river on the divide between
the Trinity and Siskiyou mountain
ranges. The excitement caused by the
find near at home during the last two
weeks has almost dwarfed interest in the
Klondyke region, and scores Of search
ers for virgin wealth VINO were unable
20 secure the coveted passfflage 70 Alaska
this season have turned their steps in the
direction OF the new camp close by. Be-
fore snow begins 10 fly in October the
now thinly populated country where the
new finds have ben made viii be overrun
with prospectors.
The town of Reiding in Shasta County.
which adjoins the county OF Trinity, is
already filed 10 OVERLOOKING with pros
pectors and inexperienced gold seekers.
The Redding storekeepers are coming
money by supplying tolls and outfits. Old
time miners have had the youthful fires
of enthusiasm rekindled within them and
then lumber OF them starting out for the
new fields is increasing daily. They are
bent Cd securing a metal which the gov
eminent mint pronounces worth S1S.67 an
ounce, or about SO more an once than the
gold of the Klondyke. Every day there
are reports of fresh and more astounding
finds.
The excitement began in earnest one
day the fore part of this week when
Richard Graves entered Redding with
golden nugget worth s42,0 900 reposing I'M
der the seat Of mis- blackboard. His ar
rival clinched that had preceded him.
and which were previously believed to be
largely imaginary, the outgrowth Of the
excitement that had been caused by the
discoveries way up in Alaska. Now there
are no doubters In the California foothills
and there is an exodus form all the old
mining camps toward the new fields in
Trinity county.
The new FL Dorado is located a bit
more than 300 miles from San Francisco
and is comparatively easy Of acces the
greater portion of the year. There are
no frozen mountain passes TO follow, as
coas, and the Klondyke. where hundreds
of persons are now blockaded. There is
small danger Of starvation on account Of
no provisions within hundreds Of miles,
and altogether the allurements OF Trinity
county far outnumber those Of Alaska.
Coffee Creek is the stream along which
the recent big strikes have been made.
II is about thirty miles in length, empty
ing nto the Trinity river, from the old
channels Of which 50 much gold was TAX
en- in the early days. Nearly its entire |
course is through a grave. bed. The gold
in the gravel beds is found near bed rock |!
the richest gravel being below the bed Of |
the creek, so that it is easy for the min |
ers 10 raise the gravel to their sluice |
boxes.
The mining machinery seen on every |
hand is of the NOSE primitive character,
and the miners operating it are for the |
most part men who started win no capt.
al except that which natre gave to them.
All, however report wonderful success
Thes rich fields in Trinity county are !
he fulfillment OF the prophecies made by
he biologists and minerologists. These
scientific men men long ago claimed that
some day discoveries would be made
here which would amaze the world. It
seems that the world is about to be amaz-
ID. 1t los being developed that the sci
'ntists were right when they said that
he fountain head Of the riches that were
AIKEN from the Trinity river and its trib-
ltaries years ago was located a the head
ween the Trinity and Sickiyou ranges.
Nuggets worth from $40 10 $50 each are
ommon products of the new diggings
long Coffee Creek and the tributary
reeks and gulches. Packers Gulch, the
irst gulch flowing into Coffee Creek, is
large amount OF course gold;
adams Creek, wo miles below, offers a
ich prospect, but has not yet been work
i to any extent; Hickory Creek, still
Irther down, and all the continent
treams. are. according 10 al indications,
and and nuggets.
Confirmation OF the reports OF marvel
US finds is given by G. L. Campbell. an
experienced miner sent from here 10 !
,arn the facts. He thus teIegraphs from
trinity Center, near Coffee Creek
Although some Of the stories thathave
cached the outside world have been |
1mewhat exaggerated in passing Trough |
lany hands, the truth is good enough
self. and is in itself a full explanation ,
the Absence OF Alaska fever from
rinity and surrounding counties.
In the first place. there is hardly a
ngle instance ot absolutely unrewarded
fort in this part Of the state. The pro-
srly directed efforts - The miner have ,
aid him at least excellent wages. and,
a great many instances. provided him
a few years with life's competency. .
nee the Graves brothers struck their
2. 900 nugget there has ben another =
rlke about twenty miles away. on q
ickory gulch. where The DISCOVERIES are ,
i'd to be on a streak OF dir; ina; goes /;
30 10 the pan. .
The Graves brothers mine. the Blue ;
,y. vas visited today. AJhough ht.le | ;