Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-20
Gold Craze in California.
Two Brothers Take Out 100000 In a
Week I'm Shasta County---SunerIng
Predicted for Those who Try 20 Reach
HlOndiISe This Season.

Reports from Redding. Shasta county, Califor.
mia, says that for 80 years the place has seen no
mining excitement equal to that which stirred
the town since the Graves brothers drove in on
their blackboard on last Tuesday with their Si2
600 nugget.
From all parts of Shasta county old miners
have locked in and taken the road for the north.
Every day brings stories of fresh finds, which
add to the excitement.
The San Francisco mint reports Trinity gold as
worth SIS % an ounce. which is about 50 more an
ounce than Klondike gold.
The new mining district is on the divide be.
tween Trinity and the Siskyou mountains, and
near the head OF the Salmon river. Ii is 1903
miles from San francisco.
Richard Graves who is now at San Francisco,
says their claim covers 10 acres, and he would
not exchange ii for any thing on the Klondike.
Since the Graves brothers left their claim Henry
Carter, their partner, has taken SEE 600 from an.
other rich pocket. This makes a total output of
the mine in little over one week of Sl06.00 OF
fers for the mine have been made To the Graves
brothers. but have been refused, as they say the
mine is worth as much to them as to any one.
There is plenty of land in the neighborhood Of
Coffee Creek which has not been taken. Many
prospectors have been in that part of Trinity
county, but they generally have kept in the trails
on the Salmon river and few have explored the
side gulChes like that in which the recent rich
discoveries have been made.
Daniel Gable. an old and experienced miner
who was of the first to join the rush to the
Klondike, has returned and tells a story calculat-
ed TO deter others from going north Ia search of
gold. There is hardly a trail in California, Ari-
IONA, Nevada or Montana with which Gable is
not familiar. When the news of the gold strike
reached this country Gable left his mines in Ari.
IONA and started for the klondike via juneau aud
the Cheoot pass.
Now he is back, having sold his outfit which
cost S235. He learned from many experienced
mining men at Juneau and further up that it
would be suicide to go before spring. He says:
when we reached Barnums Bay, which is a lit
tie way from Dyea, gave up the idea. left the
vessel intending to go to work in the Comet
mines there and wait until next spring, when
intended to go into the Klondike | found the
mines deserted as the men would not work there
at this time of the year owing to the water which
filled the mines. The Alaskan mining men are
positive that nearly all who are trying to get to
Dawson City will be frozen up en- route until
spring, and that their fate is un ertaiu. ! will
not answer for the lives Of the tenterfeet who
are now going"
James Sheakley, ex governor of Alaska, says it
is simply suicidal for men to attempt to reach
Dawson City this year by either the White or
Chcoot passes. and that the chances are little or
no better for them to arrive at their destination
by way of the lower Yukon. From now on, - he
says, you will see many discouraged men com.
ing back by the returning boats 1t is too late in
the season to 20 into the Yukon gold fields by
way of either pass, and II Is no safer to try the
lower Yukon route at this late day. There is lots
of gold on the Yukon Gov. Sheakey continued.
but men should not lose their heads in their
| effort to get it. think a mista e is being made
by so many rushing to the klondike, Miller Birch
and the many other creeks around Circle city
There were in Victoria, b. c., Sunday 1000 men
| of every class and from every part OF the world
who were wildly anxious to get ST rted on the
| long trip to the new Edorado These men had
tickets which will carry them to Skagway Bay,
on the big collier Bristol. on the steamer Is
! lander, both of which sailed Sunday. The Bristol
has-been fitted with hunks and stalls for horses
from the bottom of her hold to the top Of her
cabin deck, and every bunk and stall is occupied,
close upon 500 men going on 10 Bristol, and Just
as many hOtt and mules
The regulations formulated by the Dominion
government for the collection of a royalty on
gold mined in the Yukon district provides for a
levy of 10 per cent upon $50 per week or less.
and 20 per cent levy upon amounts taken IN
excess Of $500 per week