The San Francisco call., 1897-08-14
ALL KINDS OF PROSPECTS.
There Is Plenty of Gold to Be Sc
cured by the ProspectorS In
Trinity.

trinity.
TRINITY CENTER, CAL, Aug. 13.-
This old and eretofore sleepy metropolis
OF the QUITO the-way and ittle-known
mining region, fifty three rniles from
railroad Is all hustle tonight over the
Coffee Creek el dorado, for the stage rolled
in at 8 P. NJ. with seven more rushers, and
Landlord Vollmers finds his big old in
viting mountain road tavern so overflow
ing that the curly headed barkeeper is ex-
citedly erecting extra cots. That is
only one symptom OF the beginning of the
new Trinity County rush.
Horses can't be had for love or money.
A spawned mule is to Trinity Center to-
night as an old steam schooner at San
Francisco to the Klondike rush. The
Trinity Valley for ten miles around
affords fourteen horses and mules, and
two OF them are sick. Landlord Vollmers
has sent word 10 ranchers for twenty
miles by stages and freighters to send up
horses. About fifty rushers have arrived
already. The majority are prospectors,
but some are ready for investment or a
chance to grubstake good man.
On the stage from Redding to-day was
an old prospector, who read the story on
the train while en- route from Lake
County to Puget Sound. He switched
and came here.
Others came with picks, pans and a few
dollars for grub. Nine newspaper corre-
spondents are here. Tomorrow there
will be quite swarming to Coffee Creek.
A large mum Der will be here in few days
The Graves strike is eclipsed now by
the Hickory Gulch discovery of last Sun
day. 1t is six miles from Trinity Center,
in the northern part of Trinity County,
up the Trinity River to the mouth OF
Coffee Creek. From the mouth of the
creek 1t is two miles to where Morrison
Gulch opens in the creek from the south.
The Graves claim is mile and a half up
the creek.
Mrs r. 8. Graves and five children
flourish in the cabin at the mouth OF the
gulch while the husband is away to the
mine. Carter guards the mine alone. He
has done no work and has not found
$40 coo more as reported.
Seventeen miles up Coffee Creek from
the mouth Hickory Gulch opens from
the north at the Neck Hydraulic mine
The gulch is two miles long, with high and
way up one side near the head of the
gulch.
Many conflicting reports explain the
situation. William Nollmers, the leading
business man here,l gives the following
statements:
THE find is in porphyry dixie running
Giagonally up the gulcn. The dixie is said
10 have been traced for threeSmiles. It's
width is variously given at from $50 to 800
feet wide. The first discovery OF value in
the dixie was two week ago by Henry
Carter, who located or sold a claim show
ing quartz ledge fourteen inches wide,
yielding $40 TO the ton. The claim is 1900
feet Two men, named Burgess and Muir
ply, who had been prospecting few
weeks, made the big strike in the 1900 feet
adjoining Carrolls. They found quartz
ledge and porphyry walls decomposed,
and on Saturday got $25 from one pan.
Then they got seventeen ounces from
twenty-five pans.
"a foreman from the Nash mine on
Sunday tried a double handful and got
Sc. No reliable reports have come in
since, so no estimate of the value of the
claim can be made. A man named Riley
has located next 10 Burgess and Murphy,
and Denis Donovan on the other side of
Carroll. and both have found pay
The outlook for development of some
good mines is bright. There are twenty
prospects in process of development
on Coffee Creek. and no two are of The
same nature. There is a belt OF coun try
here twenty miles long as good for pros
pecting and investment as any in Califor-
MIA. The whole region has been but
slightly prospected. Next door to the
hotel several hundred dollars are piled on
a poker game tonight. The ride here is
long, dusty and wonderfully picturesque.
A wild new old region feels the first
thrill of new life j. O. DENNY.