The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
Sunday, but about fifty more arrived
through the day. Ten or a dozen left
Coffee Creek for home. ]. o. DENNY.
PROsPECTORS YET GOING.
PROCESSION of Gold Hunters Pass
ing Through ReddinG on the
WAY to Trinity.

REDDING, CAL, Aug. 23.-Anotker hot
ana sultry day has brought the beads Of
persplration to the brow of many an
honest and earnest pros pector fitting out
for the Trinity gold fields to-day. This
has been the fourth day of an excessively
hot spell, and while the Thermometer has
averaged about 10s throughout the day
the usual number of miners and gold
seekers have been out in the broiling sun
getting their traps together for late start
to- night. The weather is so warm that
most OF the outgoing prospectors are do
ing their travelling by night and during
the day cam ping out beneath the spread
ing branches of some friendly oak along
the banks of the many delightful noun
tain streams between this city and Trinity
Center.
This morning about forty prospectors
arrived on the overland train from the
south and to-night's local train brought
thirty more. Fully 100 more have arrived
here in various rigs, all bound for the
scene of the new gold discoveries.
The bicycle corps seems just beginnin G
to put in its appearance, and this after
noon female bicyclist attired in duck
y .
outfit, was noticed wheeling her way
through the streets of this city bound for
Trinity.
While few have returned from the gold
fields, only small number have come
back disgusted. and the cause of their dis
gust was the fact that gold nuggets are not
TO be found hanging to pine trees or man.
zlnita as they had supposed. The excla-
nations of disgust from these, however,
have no effect whatever on the hundreds
of people daily focking to the goldfelds.
They have made up their minds to go and
go they will, no matter how great the at
tempt to discourage them.
The latest reports from Trinity are more
encouraging and would indicate that the
excitement has but really commenced.
While it is true there are many who throw
cold water on the proposition the fact still
remains that rich strikes are being made
daily and former reports are being veri-
fed.
Once iii while you will find an old
time prospector who, when approached
on the subject, will look wise and remark:
Its all hum bug l mined on Coffee
Creek thirty years ago. It's all worked
out"
Men who have but recently returned
from there bring back entirely different
reports, however. The latest arrivals from
the scene of the excitement was party
this evening consisting OF J. Nj. Bryan of
the Golden Eagle Hotel and four or FIVE
newspaper reporters. In an interview
Bryan SAID that new strikes are being
made hourly.
''It is a great country for rich quartz
ledges," said Bryan. Numerous .ledges
carrying ore that will assay $500 per ton
are being exposed and some big mines are
going 10 be opened. Rich placer ground
is scarce unless you go over in the Salmon
River country. There are some exceed
ingly rich placers being worked and big
gold being taken out. There are plenty
OF prospectors up there now. All that is
needed now is capital to develop it. Then
the Coffee Creek district will boom even
greater than it is now."
They report people focking in from
every direction, and they met over 200 on
their way down. The three extra stage
coaches run between this city and Trinity
Center by the Redding and Weaverville
Stage Company are taxed 20 their utmost
capacity every day.
The greenhorns still continue to arrive in
large numbers. Some stories of the man.
ner in which they go prospecting are
laughable.
To-night's stage brought two passen-
gers, one prospector who bad fifty-seven
ounces of gold, taken out in gravel in two
days. He stated that near where he took
out the gold two Oaklanders were at work
in a gravel claim and were washing
gravel that averaged S. to the pan.
Every report that has come in lately
and every miner who has arrived from the
gold fields have verified the reports as
published in THE CALL.
One hundred prospectors are expected
on to-morrow's overland train. and all the
available seats on the stages have been
ordered in advance by telegraph.