The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-25

Attorney Z. II. Scott, a heavy stock
holder and superintendent of the North
Fork Placer Mining company, returned
home yesterday from California, where,
on tie north fork of Coffee creek, in
Trinity county, the valuable diggings
of the company are located.
Mr.. Scott has been absent from Salt
Lake for six months, and during this
period he has been hard at work with
a force of men in prospecting the COM
pany's holdings, and also in doing some
important development work in getting
ready for this seasons run, and the
placer gold he brought back with him
is tangible evidence that the gold is
there and in abundance, too, whi,h fact
will be more fully demonstrated as the
clean-ups are made this summer, when
actual placer operations are in prog
ross
In speaking of the work done during
his absence, Mr.. Scott states that aside
from doing considerable prospecting, he
has cut the gravel deposit on one por-
ton of the diggings for a distance Of
80 feet, and that in doing this a drift
was run on bedrock across the gulch,
beginning at the open fiume, the entire
distance showing pay dirt all the way,
tests showing that the whole body OF
gravel, from the surface down to bed
rock, a depth of from II to Il feet, car
ried an average of 80 cents to the cubic
yard in gold, the yellow metal being
very coarse, and the indications are,
from the character of the gold that
this is what is called a rim channel,
and that the mair channel, which is the
center of the gulch, Will carry even
higher values
1t is the intention of the company to
hpoin active finres in Tha aaTtV
spring, as soon as the snow begins to
melt, ard the force employed all win
ter in prospecting work is now getting
affairs in shape so as to bring the giant
into play, as mining will be carried on
this summer by means Of hydraulicinS,
it being the intention to work over
large area Of rich gravel.
"A large sum OF money has been ex-
pended in getting ready for operations
GA an extensive scale, and the property
is finely equipped with a ditch carrying
400 to 500 inches of water. Eight hun
dred feet of fumes have been put in
for sluicirg, besides the other necessary
accessories for successful placer min
ing.
Mr. Scott is we'll pleased over the
outlook for the property this season,
and has no doubt but that the diggings
will be placed on a paying basis dur
ing the coming season. The company
wv llS l-4Att lililGS w 1l4Q doNAA liz
creek. and is now applying for patent
for the same, and prospecting at var
ious places diVulges the fact that all of
ii is gold-bearing, and that even with
steady and extensive operations. it Will
take years to work out the gold IL con-
tains.
Mr.. Scott states that a large amount
of legitimate work is being done on
Coffee creek and its tributaries, and
that any amount of capital is going in
there for investment in placer mining,
as we'll as in quartz operations, and he
adds that while the excitement which
seized the place last year was soon
over, the boom being caused by the
discoveries made by the Graves broth
ers in their quartz mine, hundreds Of
inexperienced prospectors coming in,
most of whom went away disappointed,
that, nevertheless, three or four times
the amount of heavy mining was going
on compared to what was being done
in this line when he was there three
years ago. and during this period. sew
eral rich quartz strikes have been made
and a number of mills are TO go up this
summer, in addition to those already in
operation along the creek.
Still, Mr.. Scott is of the opinion that
this IS no poor mans country, as it
takes money to open up mines, both
placer and quartz, and to equip them
so that they will make money for their
owners.
As a matter of fact, this is a great
gold country, and many men of means /
are getting foothold there, among the !
other enterprises on foot being the put |
ting in of a dredger at Callahan's, on !
the south fork of Scott river. not far
from Coffee creek, and Mr.. Scott states |
that on this stream it is reported that /
q party of Cinnamon took out upwards 1
of 100000 in sold last summer, by |
ground sluicing.
Mr.. Scott has enjoyed good health |
during his absence, and returns home !
weighing IS pounds more than when he |
went away. He is we'll satisfied to turn |
his attention to placer mining, and ex- :
poets to return to the diggings within |
a few weeks.
The North Fork placers are owned /
principally by Salt Lake people, and /
they are highly elated with the very
favorable report brought back by Mr..
Scott.
THE NEW CAMP OF NELSON.