The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIL = NO: 6. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1897—THIRTY PAGES. PRICE FIVE EL Great Wealth Vein of Decomposed Porphyry. GOLD IN VAST QUANTITIES ON HICKORY GULCH. Prospectors Now Trooping Into the Rich| Regions of Trinity County Are Stimulated by Reports of New Finds. CARRVILLE, CaL, Ang. 14—Burgess| 1d a baking powder can ickory Gulch to a store- Murpby d from H sol f all o yeeper at the Nash mine on Upper « Creek on Thursday, according > iable report reaching here at mountain fi.stne Burgess phy had then probably taken out from their fabulously rieh | y are starting to work | ker, and according to all reports | g up several hundred dol- | s primitive fashion during | | g week. prospectors now trooping into | »ek from this end all make the but fascinating trip from the one rway that hu the shore of r, back and up into the wild | where the Bluejay mine vielded est nugget the world ever knew. Most of them then push on up Coffee Creek to see the greater strike on Hickory | ch, for the Bluejay's prestige was brief. Itis a great pocket mine; but twenty miles farther on there seems to be millions in one great vein of soft decomposed | porphyry, any single pan of which will pay a man a day’s wages. s If these wild and jnmbled moustains are seamed and iewecled with the likes of these things, it is time for the thorough investigation that is at hand. Everybody is minded to start for Hickory Gulch. A vigorous and intel old man, who is wandering througn this wilderness 1n search of gold, brings to this delightful old road tavern, which constitutes Carr- ville, the latest story direct from E Ty 1lch. Heis Jonn Lylle of Santa Cruz, an old Caiifornia miner, who is still on a quest and who has turned his persisten igent kory Gulch last Wednes DISCOVERIES IN THE NEW | individual claims. | ing ninety-nine out of a bundred pros- DORADO in One Large SCENE NEAR COFFEE CREEK IN THE TRINITY COUNTY MINING DISTRICT. Biue Jay and Hickory Gulch ricnes. The method that resulted in.these two dis- coveries will now be foliowed by old pros- pectors and tenderfeet alike. Itis nearly the method of pocket-hunting on the mother lode, whic:a small part of the prospectors there use. Instedd of roaming about looking for in- dications we must tackle the steep side of a gulch deeply covered with soil and, at | cloe intervals, take pans of surface soil. These are carried to water and panned for ‘color. One may gather several samples and pack them to water, keeping track of where each comes from. This is done all over the hill's side, from top to bottom. The colors will vary, and eaeh pan has its significance. If colors | are found they eome from one of these buried dykes or seams just above. Persistent panning in this way slowly leads to the place to dig at. Carter at the Biue Jay is awaiting the rn of the Graves brothers, and the has seen no change or development J. O. DENNY. significance than the values of the two They will revolutionize the miningideas | and prospecting methods of a great, rich | and almost untouched gold-bearing re- | gion, embracing Trinity and a great psrt of Shasta and Siskiyou counties. Through their sensational effect they will establish the lesson heretofore learned by but few and iittle thought of that this gold region of Northern California % not the mother lode; that gold was not planted here in the same way, and that it cannot be found by following the ex- perience and using the wisdom gained from the great mother lode. This plainly to be the r-sult of the Blue Jay ana Hickory Guich discoveries, besides the general boom of quariz mining here- abouts, which wiltfoliow. Trinity County and Western Siskiyou | mi are but just emerging from the placer | fora weck stage of development. Prospectors have ranged through the region, ipoking along .the streams and Lilis for the pieces of gold-bearing quariz calied float, which give tips of the loca- tion of ledges. Artterthe manner of mother-lode min- | is | ret — NEW DISCOVERIES MADE. Rich Veins of Copper as Well Gold Found Along Trinity’s Streams. REIDING, Car., Aue. 14.—Never before in the bistory of mining in tbis portion of pectors have thus ranged through the | he State has there been so much excite- guichesin a superficial way, found little | ment nor so much interest centered on or nothing and gone off disgusted. | any certain * locality as there is at Then the iedges do not crop on the sur- | present in the Coffes Creek country and face as on the mother lode. The hills are | the mining districts of Southern Trinity everywhere covered by soil and thickly | and Northern Shasta. With each incom- wooded. It is thus hard to find veins|ingstage new revorts and verifications of nyway, and quartz float 1s seldom found | previous ones come which go to show that at all on the mother lode. the great mining upheaval in the Coffee There is a system and regularity to the | Creek country is not a mere streak of veins and there are few continuous quartz | luck on the part of the Graves brothe veins, but instead aresort of dykes largely | and Burgess and Murphy, but that it is f porphyry and all the geological and | the beginning of a new and golden era in minera ogical wisdom of the mother lode | the mining industry of Trinity, and all as s placed at sea. There are pockets and strange gold searing formations to be looked for here. Chese new strikes give final force to the s of other and smaller finds, and, it | a revelation to old, intelligent pros- | ctors with their set idea of where gold | besed the divide to the Salmon and swung around to the Trinity | by way of Callaban’s Ranch. When he | came down the road leading his tired horse, and stopped at the great porch by | the roadside, he had to tell over and over | the story of all that he saw and heard, and | indications point to that it has come to stay. Mining experts who have visited the region pronounce it without doubt the richest section of the country in the United States, that 13 on the outward showing, and which is all there is at present to go by. The character of the country, the iay of the lend and the he judged that Burgess and Murphy had | 5 20d when it cannot be. struck it rich. Thelesson is tiat the pan and not the This Carrville is on the Trinity, six | Pk iust be used here in finding more miles north of Trinity Center, near the general topography would indicate that mouth of Coffee Creek, and where any one | from Hickory Gulch first sirikes a wagon | road. But even here one is mainly fed on rumors about th arkable find “l1 examined the uation well as I could,’’ said Mr. Lylle, “‘and find that | Burgess and Murphy had struck a seam | of decomposed porphyry and quartz, ten or | twelve 1nches wide on the surface and 1n a serpentine formation. It dips into the hills and runs with the trend of the hi northeast and southwest. he formation is so soft that they car just dig 1t out and wash it. They told me | that they got $142 out of twenty-two pans, | and that it would average $6 or $7 a pan right along at the surface, though they had washed more from some pans. “The storekeeper who bougbt their gold | confirmed their story. They were just fix- ing up a rocker, and were calculating that | if it did not average more than §1 a pan | they would clean up $300 a day for three | men, or $100 a day per man, and I don’t doubt it. | “Idon’t know how much gold they haa | taken out, but all the dirt they hac | worked you could put in -that watering trough. They were grading off a place for a cabin and bad hired a pack train to bring in lumber for it.”’ That is the latest from Hickory Gulch, | which lies twenty-five miles back from the stage road by the Trinity, and at an altitude of several thousand feet, right at the headwaters of Coffee Creek, and on the divide between the Salmon and tuc Trinity rivers. The early rush has just fairly arrived Dozens of prospectors made their way | into the gorge from the lower end to-day, | and they are straggling in alone and in iwos and threes across the divide by trails | from the west and north. Nearly 100 men with packhorses or with packs on their backs have already reached the wonderful hill thatwalls thisstream, but only the first ripple of the eush has |. reached this section. Say, where is the trail Jay strike?” inquired a reined a jaded horse this morning in a forest junczle. *‘Yes, I just got in irom Dunsmuir, over in Siskiyou County. | The whoie town was crazy to go to Coffee Creek, but when they heard I was going they thought they would wait till they heard from me. I started at 10 o'clock Jast night. 1didn’t want to rush that trail over the divide when it wasso |+ hiot, and so I rode all night.” | J. W. Price of Dunsmuir displaved a more striking but not a greater energy in getting there than many others are doing. These two great strikes have a far greater re up to that Biue | rusher, as he row. She is a modest and petite blonde. liege lord goes; beti es she believes th chances are as good as anybody’s. MRS. AGNES. GERALDINE WALSH, Mre. Acnes Geraldine Walsh will sail for Dawson on the North Fork to-mor- who denies that sbe is a “‘new woman.” Slie says sbe is going (0 the Kiondike country because duty calls her where ber ere are nuggets to be bad and that her the appreciable fact | 3 | Trinity miners as a rule do not seck noto- | gold ranging from $50 to $5000. mineral wealth and untold millions of gold have for ages lain beneath Trinity’s surface only awaiting some such an up- heaval as is now taking place there. For years past Trinity has been consid- ered one of the richest gold-producing counties in the State, and capitalists and mining men of means have had their eyes turned in that direction for some time. The only drawback has been the base quality of the ore and the trouble and ex- pense of getting the necessary machinery into the various camps with which to work the ore. Now that the exact value of the mining property in the county is known miners will be more encouraged in their work of development and will be more willing to spend money in the pur- suit of gold. The Coffee Creck excitement is being the means of reviving the mining interests throughout entire Northern California, or at least in that portion through which the great mineral belt is known 10 traverse. ‘The delightiul climate, the prolific moun- tain strexms and beautiful scenery have been somewhat of an obstacle in the way of development work. Prospectors would fit themselves out with expensive outfits and enter the counly with honest purposes and eunthusiastic intentions to seek the hidden riches, They would strike camyp in sorde favorable spot and’ become 50 in- fatuated with the fishing, the hunting, the climate ard the country generally that all their mining enthusiasm would be lost in their eagerness for the wilder sports. Thus it has been that numerous pros- pectors have gone to the country and re- turned without having secured any favor- able results and without giving tothe outside world any idea as to the richness | of this now wonderfual country, For years past, however, miners and prospectors living in the county have at various times taken out rich pockets of These finds hardly ever were brought to the at- tention of the public for the reason that riety, and rest content in sitting down quietly in some remote part of the county, calmly smoking their pipe and congratu- lating themselves over the fact that right at their very cabin door they have gold enough to lastthem throughout the course of their natural life. These resident miners are g s'urdy lot. Straightforward and honest in their deal- ings they have made for Trinity a reputa- tion that is very seldom enjoyed by a mining county. This reputation is one they are proud of and consists of the fact that, although it is a typical frontier | county in many respects, it has thus far been free from the usual disturbing ele- ments of a mining camp. No bloodshed, no bitter rivalries and no quarreling have been known in this county, and especially in the Coffee Creek section have the min- ers been law-abiding. To-dav there are at least 2000 people flocking totbe €offee Creek country, and a great majority are leaving from this city. From early morning till late at night pros- pecting parties with pack-mules, blankets, picks and shovels can be seen wending their way toward Trinity, and with each incoming train and. stage come more people eager 1o dig for gold and willing to encounter all kinds of hardships in the pursuit of the hidden wealtb. The road between this city and Trinity Center is constantly lined with vehicles, pack-animals and pedestrians bound for the gold tields. This morning James M. Bryan, proprietor: of . the Golden 'Eagle Hotel in this city—and, who, by the way, is a relative of the cause of the last excite- ment up this way, William Jennings Bryan—left for the. gold fields. Bryan, together with two San Jose capitalists— William Frue and Jules Norton—have taken. the most extensive pros- pecting outfit that has .yet gone into the Coffee Creek pold fields. They were attired in typical '49 outfits, with a trio of anxious-looking jackasses and all the necessary paraphernalia and supplies to last them for a season’s pros- pecting. Their appearance on the street caused no little excitement, and a deafen- | ing yell went forth from the multitude of friends and onlookers as the group de- parted for Trinity’s Klondike. The regular stages are taxed to their ut- most capacity. This morning tife outgo- ing Weaverville stage resembled a tally-ho coach of some pleasure party more than it did the regular and usually empty stage coach. ‘There were thirteen passengers aboard. The superstitious ones, however, were appeased by the knowledge that the driver came in as the fourteenth and no serious result from the number thirteen are expected to foliow. News of new and rich strikes are con- stantly coming in, but none have thus far equaled the finds of the Graves bfothers and Murphy and Burgess. Union Creek, a tributary of Coffee Creek and about eight miles north of the Graves brothers, strike, is gaining considerable notariety on account of the great copper discovery which has just been made. While Trinity A county, it has never been known that cop- per existed in any quantities, and in fact, been encouraged. It is now known that one of the most extensive copper deposits on the Pacific Coast is located in old Trinity and the excitement over the gol! finds has brought this discovery about. News has just reached this city that the copper discovery on Union Creek, ju-t above the old Blythe mine, out of which the father of Florence Blythe ook the greater portion of his fortune, is a find of wonderful proportions. The claim is located right on the banks of Union Creek, and the ore is said to carry 60 per cent of copper. From the north bank of the east fork of Coffee Creek, two miles from Trinity River and extending to and across Coffee Creek, extends a belt of porphyry one mile wide and ten miles long. In this found the celebrated Nash and Strode mines and also the Maitland (formeriy Blythe) and Blackburn properties. Just south of this belt in an angle formed by jay claim of the Graves broihers, out of which the $30,000 has been taken. On the west the Salmon range of mountains form a watérshed for small streams running idown and toward Morrison Gulch, and at all seasons of the year there is plenty of water for prospecting purposes. Oa the east fork of the Trinity, whose mouth is nearly opposite the town of Trinity Center, are the famous Bloss and MeCleary mines. From the west bank of Trinity River come late reports of finds of exceed- ingly rich gravel, quartz and pocket claims. On this fork yesterday two pros- pectors, or hunters rather, took frow three pansful of dirt $385 in pure gold. To-night’s stage from Weaverville brought but two passengers, one a com- mercial man and the other a man at first glance & miner. He alightea from the coach and from beneath his dust-covered duster brought out a small-sized valise, which was suspicious-looking from the fact that everythinig and everybody com- ing from Trinity-ward 1s supposed to con- tain gold. Reporters were suddenly num- erous and the tired and dusty passenger was immediate.y besieged by the hungry newspapermen. The individual reterred to seemed to have an antipathy for re- porters, and, in his scuffle to get away, lost his hat and valise and nearly had the uister torn trom his back. He escaped into the Deppt Hotel, however, and sought protection from Harvey Parker, one of the proprietors of the railroad hostelry. He was given it and a porter sent out for his baggage, which, by the way, had under- gone a thorough overhauling and inspec- tion at the hands of the reporters. A CALL reporter succeeded in interviewing Mr. Jacobs, which transpired to be his name. He possessed no Coffee Creek gold, but was in the possession of some information that will be news at this time. Mr. Jacobs stated that from French Gulch to the Coffee Creek diggings everybody was ex- cited and all were preparing to go into the new fields. He stated that just as he left Trinity Center a report had arrived by pack train to the effect that a man named Adams had taken out over $32,000 from a space about ten feet square during the day before. His informant brought in & chunk of the gold to verify his story and started out to purchase some supplies for Adams. ) The Hickorv® Gulch strike is now re- ported to be even of greater magnitude than at first supposea and handfuls of gold are to be taken out at nearly every spot where a pick can be sunkinto the earth. ' Fred ‘Grotefend, a well-known mining man of this city, leaves Monday with an extensive prospecting outfit for the new fields and will spend the fall monthe there. He has mined considerably in Trinity and gives it as his opinion that more rich strikes and daiscoveries will yet be heard of. Mr. Grotefend states that there are strong indications of coprer extending along Union Creek, and was not in the least surprised when told by a CaLL re- porter of the strike in copper at that place. city are reaping a gdlden harvest on ac- count of the excitement. Around the various hotels ana stage offices there are throngs of people at the arrival of every stage and there is a striking resemblance to the days of '49 on every hand. e \PLENTY OF GOLD- HERE. There Is No Necessity of Califor- nlans Facing the Rigors of the Klondiks. £ REDDING, CAL, Aug, 14.—And still the multitude looks and goes toward Cof- fee Creek. To-night E. J. Bell, Henry Trible and Clarence Somers of Sacramen to arrived in this city en route to the Trinity ne rrospecting for that metal has ever | belt are | it and Morrison Gulich 1s located the Bine- | Hotel-keepers and supply stores in this | has ever been known as a rich minerai goldfields. They came prepared for a season’s prospecting in the Trinity moun- tains, and among other things brought b.cycles with wh:ch to enter tne gold- fielos. Finding it Impossible to gain access to the gold diggings by ‘“‘bike’’ they stored their machines in this city, procured two stout donkeys and with their supplies leave bright and early to-morrow morn- ing. Fred B. Simonds Jr. and a capitalist named Norton leave Monday for Salmon Kiver in the Uoffee Creek district. They £o in search of a lost claim that is known to have existed in that section in early as Monday there will be quite an exodus from this city and every available means of transportation is being chartered. Not | only to Coffee Creck are these miners go- ing, but to various points in rich Trinity. The gntire country is fabulously rich in gold and the future of old Trinity never looked so promising as it does now. From every section of the county come reports of renewed activity in the mines. The established mines are ,improving and new and valuable strikes are being con- stanily maae. There is no nccessity for any Trin itarians or Californians to go to Klondike as intelligent labor is sure of suitable remuneration here, and the op- portunities for the prospector in this coun- try cannot be exceiled. The authentic reports of the finds on Coffee Creek are almost fabuious, and there is yet in that neighborhood a vast area of unprospected ground in addition to the working mines. The reports from East Fork are more than encouraging. At Canyon Creek the strike at the Chloride-Bailey group of mines insures many years of prosperity to that camp. Mineral-bearing ledges of paying quartz are being found in the South Fork coun- try. Quartz mining in Hay Fork has re- ceived a new impetus. The new camp of Ha!l City is making splendid progress. Trinity Center is showing up new devel- opments, Theold quartz camps are more tnan holding their own. Down the Trinity improvement is visible. The placers are keeping pace with the quartz. French syndicate properties are improving and thousands of dollars are being spent in their improvement. The old placers maintain their regular output. Negotiations are pending for the pu-chase of the Paulsen group of mines on the Trintty. Their sale and development will inaugurate a new era in gravel mining. Never has ‘‘old Trinlty” looked better, never bas she deserved more, and she has a future that will far surpass her golden past. —_—— To Builld an E ectric Road. REDDING, CaL, Aur 14 — The in- creased travel and traflic between this city and the new Colfee Creek gold fields have renewed the proposition of an elec- tric road from this city to Weaverville to the extent that preparations are quietly being made to float tiie prospectus of the Weaverville and Redding Electric Rail- road before the public in a few days. Plans have already been drawn for an electric streetcar system in this city and it is intended to use the same power for the purpose of maintaining an_eleetric road to Weaverville. Suca a road will be the means of further developing the min- ing interests of Shasta and Trinity coun- ties and at the sams time will be the source of great revenue to the company controlling Senator Mills Oil Welle, CORSICANA, Tex., Aug. 14.—Senator Mills ras-decided to reconsider his deter- mination not to develop the oil supposed tounderlie his 100 acres of rich land near this citv. He closed a deal to-day with James Garrity, presiient of the First Na- tional Bank, by which Gurrity obtains a lease of the entire tract for boring oil wells. Garrity has erected a derrick and begun operations. The Senator is receiv- ing the congratulations of neighbors upon his prospect of becoming a millionaire, TRRETT L Kosciusco’s Heurt Interred. BERNE, SWITZERLAND, Aug. 14.—The heart of Kosciusco, the Polish patriot, was interred Wednesday in the special mau- soleum of Castle Rappenwyl on Lake Zurich. The ceremony was preceded by a requiem mass, which was attended by 150 Polish patriot e Ex-King Milan of Servia Ts Dying. VIENNA, AvstriA, Aug. 14.—Ex-King Milan of Servia is dying. Milan was born at Jassy, August 10, 1854, He was a grand nephew of Milos Obrenovitech and was adopted as his heir by his second c6usin, Michael 111, Prince of Servia. e 3 An Anarchist Expelled From France. PARIS, FRANCE, Au~. 14.—An anarchist named Planas was expelled from France Wednesday, being conducted by the police from Paris to Havre, where he will em- bark for New York. He protests that he is not an anarchist but a Cuban patriot. MOST NOT OVERCROWD STEAMERS Inspector Bryant Will See That the Law Is Complied With. PASSENGERS ARE TO BE PROTECTED. Men and Horses by the Score Depart for Dyea and Skaguay. THOUSANDS NOW ON THE WAY 10 THE KLONDIKE. By September Ist 10,000 Wil Be Struggling Along the Passes en Route to Dawson. SEATTLE, Wass., Aug. 14 —The steamer Utopia got under way this morning shorily after 1 o'clock, and is now steaming for Dyea and Skaguay. She left, however, a number of disap- pointed Klondikers, who will have to wait a later opportunity to make a start 10 the gold.fields. Every available space on the Utopia had been converted into a resting space either for man or beast. Last night the United States Inspector of Hulls, Captain W. J. Bryant, made an official visit to the steamer, and as a result a number of small bunks that had been constructed in the aft cabin for second-class passengers were ordered to be torn out. The principal objection lies in the fact that the :pice was 8o constructed that no opportunity was allowed for the air to circulate. The experience on the overcrowded Willam- ette has had a tendency to quicken the perceptive powers of Captain Bryant, who 18 now aetermined to look closely aiter the safety and comfort of pessengers on steamers leaving thi< port. In speaking on the subje:t, he expressed himsell in rositive terms against permilting the loading of horses and mules in the hold and upper deck and placing steerage pas- sengers hetween them, as has béen done in several instances. He further said: “I will see that in the future plenty of room will be g.ven in each berth for the circulation of air. There is not going to be another miscel- laneous mixup of men and women with live stock. Small sieamers under 200 tons regisier will be allowed licenses dur- ing the good weather to sail to Alaska, but after Septemver 15, when the storms of the equinoctial period are io be ex- pected, these will not be allowed to carry passengers to the North.” To-morrow the big ocean steamer Faral- lon of San Francisco is expected in port and will leave Monday on its new Seattle- Dyea route. This is the steamer which waged the rate-cutting fizht with the Pa- cific Coa:t Steamship Company two years ago. Itisfitted to carry 120 passengers. a supply of horses and 600 tons of freight, and her accommodajions are all spoken for, For some time past tne Farallon has been on the Coos Bay run and will now be changed to the Alaska run by her owner, Captain Myron Akmann of San K¥rancisco. The suspicion that tne ap- pearance of the Farallon and the demand for Alaska travel means a cut in rates is unfounded, The Faralion will adopt the rates already in vogue. 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