Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-17
DREDGING FOR GOLD
GIVES RICHES FOR ALL

The Montezuma group Of mines in
Shasta county has been sold by the
Connors to the Gold King Mining
company There are six claims in all
The mining company is composed
largely of Los Angeles parties. Clin-
ton Johnson Is the president
The klamath River Dredge Mining
company is preparing to operate on
tract of 210O acres extending in
land from the mouth of the klamath
river.
The Redding searchlight reports
strike in the Reid mines near Red
ding. There are six claims in one
group under bond to d. y. Hunt and
James sallee of San Francisco. Work
has been in progress some months.
The Marysvlle Gold Dredging com
pany, the Marysvile Democrat re-
ports, will begin to construct two
mining dredges this month, of the
type used on the Yuba Consolidated
of Goldheld district. w =. Harmon
will be the managing director of the
Marysville company. BY the end Of
the year six dredgers will be I'm oper-
alton on the Yuba. Two are working,
two half completed and two new ones
have been contracted for. The Ham
mon company may construct other
machines this year.
The Blue Tent mine. owned by C.
l.. Garfield and P. c. Drescher on the
South Yuba river, six miles from
Nevada CITY, Is putting 200 tons of
gravel a day through the mill. The
mine was formerly operated as
hydraulic property, but is now a drift
proposition.
The Redding Searchlight reports
that Deadwood, in Trinity county, is
an active camp. A score of leasers
are operating and have met with good
returns. Rock ranging from $40 to
$500 a ton is reported to have been
found.
Nevada City is playing in luck A
rich strike Is reported in the Lecomp-
ton mine. Recently a strike was made
at the Murche. The resumption of
work at the Home mine also adds to
mine is in the Willow valley district.
The ore was encountered in a cross
cut from the 4O0-foot level.
Tombstone Is AeIow
The Tombstone Consolidated COM
pany that has undertaken the task Of
pumping out the old mines of the
olden days of that camp is reported
so sanguine of success in its under
taking that the company at a recent
meeting ordered another pumping
plant having a capacity of 100000
gallons. This pump will be installed
on the 300 foot level and ready for
work about June 1. With this addi-
tional pump at work, sinking on the
Gre bodies will continue, and the rich
es that are believed to exist at greater
depth will soon be utilized by the i'm
proved machinery for reduction.
Gold Dollar PIacers
In Trinity county the Gold Dollar
mine, while new property, is reported
as developing into one Of the richest
in the Canon creek section. The mine
is at a point where Forty Dollar gulch
flows into the creek, and there is an
interesting bit of history connected
with this particular portion of the
Canon creek placer mines.
Lawrence Frank, an old prospector
who was we'll known not only on
Canon creek but up and down the
whole course of Trinity river as we'll, |
stopped one day at the stream flowing |
down this gulch, his mind intent not
on hunting for the alluring yellow
metal, but upon quenching his thirst, |
and upon STOPPING down to drink his eye |
was attracted by something that made
him forget for q moment that he was
thirsty while he picked up a smoothly |
worn nugget of gold. The only avail
able gold scales in the vicinity would |
weight no more than two ounces, and |
this nugget was found to be too heavy |
to weigh upon these scales but the
prospector sold it for $40. and from
that incident the gulch was named |
Forty Dollar gulch.''
More of the Same
In 1871 an old prospector whom Trim
ity residents will remember by the
name of Johnny Bull" mined on the
bank of Canon creek near this same
Forty Dollar gulch and found nugget
containing $500 in gold. This is the
largest nugget ever found along Canon
creek. A few years later or in 1876, J.
Barleycorn was working in the same
ground sluicing a bench
of gravel just few yards above Forty
Dollar gulch, and Immediately below
the channel where the Gold Dollar mine
is being operated, and in six days
work took out $500. The place he
worked may be seen by the side of the
road.
Ledges Are Found
These stories We're for a long time
talk among the residents of
Junction City and vicinity, but no one
thought of going up on the side of the
to find the source of the gold
that had washed down and lodged in