The San Francisco call., 1897-08-25
OTHER PROPERTIES
ARE BONDED.
This Means Substantial De-
velopment of the New
Discoveries.
LEDGES WHICH PROMISE
VERY RICH RETU RMS.
Boomers OF Coffeville Expect
TrInity's New Town to Have
a Magic Growth.

CARRVILLE, CAL, Aug. 24.-The first
important deals of recently discovered
Coffee Creek mines have been made by
II. q. Osborne OF Los Angeles, who has
bought one Hickory Gulch mine tor
5000 and bonded another for $50 600. The
transactions were rumored yesterday and
the news was reliably confirmed to-day.
Mr.. Osborne mixes mining with run
ming the Los Angeles Express. and was
about to start or a trip to Arizona when
the Coffee Creek discoveries were heralded
to the world, and he at once came here
ready to buy OF bond any good thing he
might run across. He went up to Hick-
ory Creek for this purpose few days ago
and is now on his way back. While there
he inspected the promising prospect of
Hardscrabble Gulch, just over the ridge
from Hickory Gulch, which Thomas Keat-
ing has been quietly developing Tor nearly
two years, and when he left be had 1t
bonded for two months for $50 900 and
had paid Heating a bonus OF $1,000.
Keating's is the only discovery in the
neighborhood of Hickory Guch which
has been at all developed, and it has been
considered the best ledge proposition in
that region. A broken ledge OF quartz
which assays high has been traced UP the
hill, but the ledge has not yet yet been
found in place. Heating is running
a tunnel through big porphvry dixie TO
discover and crosscut the ledge. and has
it down twenty feet with from 100 10 20
feet yet to go. This porphyry is settled
with gold-bearing material, and the whole
mass of the porphyry may pay for milling
as we'll as the quartz. and Keating has
washed and mortared out about $4,000 to
pay expenses. Should the transaction be
com pleted it will give another impetus 10
the quartz development of that region.
Mr. Osborne also bought the claim on
Hickory Gulch, located about six weeks
ago by Thomas Carroll and his partner
Riley. and by them quickly sold to
Messrs. Pitts and Manning for $3.50. At
that time Carroll and Riley, Burgess and
Murphy, Donovan and two or three others
were working placer claims on Hickory
Creek with little or no success. Carroll
went to panning the hillsides for traces or
lodges, and made the first vein discovery
in Hickory Gulch. The others left their
sluicing and went to panning. too, and
Burgess and Murphy soon made their
find. Donovan also found a promising
ledge, which he is developing. 1t is the
claim first located by Carroll and sold for
$3.50 which Mr.. o borne has secured for
$1,000. 1t is a promising prospect with
hardly any DEVELOPMENT.
1t is reliably reported from the head OF
he nd ado IN,
Hickory Gulch yesterday by two San
Francisco men who have been there a few
days. One is Fren Gilman and the other
has been steward on a coasting vessel.
Not far from the Burgess and Murphy
vein, or pocket, whichever it may prove
to be, they found similar deposit, but
the pan yielded indicati tions of only about
$25 ton. A. H. Hubert of Sissons, whose
wife is niece of C. P. Huntington and
who has been out prospecting for three
days, to-day discovered and located a
quartz ledge about four miles up Coffee
Creek and got good prospect with mortar
and pan.
A good many quartz veins are being
found ard located by prospectors. A ma
iority will prove to be CT little or no value.
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TO- morrow lum ber for the first saloon will
go up the road from Trinity Center. E.
T. Casey, the manager and chief boomer
of the enterprise, will go to San Francisco
tomorrow to begin whooping up the new
venture. In a few days the sporting
p ople brought from Randsburg and San
Francisco will b, here and lots will be for
sale in the city. Mr.. Casey, with his ex.
perience In townsite booming in Cripple
Creek, Oklahoma Territory and Rands-
burg, regards this as good location for
town. Next spring Mr.. Casey will go 10
Skaguay.
AS one stands beneath the wild goose
berry and willows, and under the pines
by the banks of fretful Coffee Creek, it is
hard to realize that ere the moon wakes
again dance. hall will rise beside the
split picket fence around the posies in
Dick Graves quiet front yard, but that is
what is coming. because a nugget OF gold
was found in Morrison Gulch. The peo-
pie who are coming in now to com d ence
prospecting are not relied upon 10 build
the town. The people will be ssnt in, and
according to master workman among
the town builders the sports are the ones
to get in first. Other business people and
residents are to be got to follow, and with
a season OF cold blooded whooping the
new town will be created and made IA
nous.
The inpouring OF people to-day was at
the diurnal rate of fifty, which has been
kept up for several days. Six and four
horse e wagons loaded with ten or dozen
rushers and their outfits, and making the
through trip OF over sixty miles from Rcd
ding in two days. are becoming more
numerous daily on the road. These loads
are made up at Redding by owners of the
teams, who get together parties from the
trains and San Francisco men are found
in all of them. The several hundred
campers along Coffee Creek and the Trim
iry are starting good many small forest
fires, which keeps the mountains wrapped
in a soft blue haze.