The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1897, Page 3

'HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 02 = 1897. ’ BOOMERS 10 STAKE 00T A TOWN It Will Be of Mushroom Growth and Called Coffee Creek. NO ABATEMENT IN THE EXCITEMENT. Two Thousand Gold-Hunters Are Now Located in Trinity County. SOME PROMISING LEDGES ARE REPORTED. Mines That Will Yield Well by al Steady, Gradual Developmant. ; Warning to Rushers. CARRVILLE, CaL, Aug. 2L—A new strike on Hickory Creek was reported to- day by a man who came over road on his way to Redding for some money. He is George A. Noonan, an old prospector, ; who lives at Happy Camp, on the Kla- | math River, and who bhas been prospect- | ing all over the northern part of the State. Two weeks he wen o Hick v | Gulch, and he says that he has found a| ledge that isrich in free gold. He reports that e ver end of the Coffee Creek Canyon is alive with prospectors. The boomers have arrived, and to-mor- row morning the town of Coffee Creek will be staked cut on part of the two eighty-acre tracts owned by the Graves brothers. The town ison a small flat f Coffee Creek and the is a romantic place, rests and undergrowth, ra the Graves brothers have and about it the mountains risesteep and high. Two days ago Casey got here with a Coffeeville townsite scheme, and cen nego- h George L. who owns aves broth- v River, well ocated on the very narrow river bottom. iating & townsite deal a prietor of C: acres adjoini While Casey was figuring, however, three boomers canght the Graves brothers a edding, and got them to sign an air- tizht contract invoiving their Jand, and | they arrived with the Graves brothers this | afternoon. One is A. R. Wills of San Francisco, another is V. V. Ritter of that | place, and the third 1s Fred Grotefend, ex- ier of the First National Bank of Redding. They have the town platted, have promises for the sale of several lots, and wili stake out the streets in the morn- ing. A saloon will be established in a tent as quickiy as possible, and every possibie move will be made to rush ahead the es- tablishment of a town before Casey and Carr can get Coffeeville started a few hun- dred vards away. The new boomers at first decided on the name of Gravesville, but this evening one of them thought of Cripple Creek and name was changed to Coffee Creek. | ¢ camp will be right at the mouth e Creek, on the old Oregon stage road, along the west bank of the Trinity River. of Co The nearest store at Trinity x miles south, and to the nortn an’s ranch is twenty-five miles away. The new town at the mouth of Coffee Creek will see a brief mushroom growth dependent on the extent and endurance of the early rush, which is yet in its early stages, according to the present indica- cations. It will be not more than a small country town permanently, and its future will depend on the wholly unknown ana | promising future of quartz-mining in this section. Mr. Grotefend hnas already ar- ranged to move a sawmill to Coffee Creek. The Graves brothers are contemplating 8 large hotel, ana the boomers are trying to get somebody to start adance-hall. The Graves brothers drove from Redding in fine new buggies and brought all kinds of new dresses and pretty things for the women and the little ones. They treat with contempt the story that $1000 was all they took out of the big pocket and de- clined to enter into any detailed explana- tions. More people than ever were over in Coffee Creek to-day. This forenoon teams carrying rushers and their outfits stoppea at once at Trinity Center, and those who had driven rapidly from Redding reported that fifty outfits were passed on the way. This morning three working-girls arrived trom Ban Francisco at Trinity Center with not money enough left to gzo back. They expected it to be easy to find work, but are not very likeiy to do so. Wiliiam Vollmers, the hotel proprietor, receives a dozen applications by letter a day for work as cooks, waiters and so on, and there is a growing flood of inquiries from all sorts of working people, as well as from people who want to open business in all sorts of lines. It should be known that thers is employment for nobody here, and if the rash should develop busi- ness in a small way there will be twenty people for every job. Belore this litile rusk began there was never employment for a stranger throughout the surround- ing region. Only practical miners could come into Upper Trinity and Siskivou and Shasta counties with a show to get wages in the few working quariz mines, and then they would be very lucky to gt & job. There is no industry but mining, and that is in an early stages of develop- ment. The people who are rushing in here now will nearly all stay buta few weeks, and they are mearly all camping for twenty miles along Coffee Creek. BSoon their numbers will spread to adjacent regions, probably just as good for prospecting and investment. The additions to the popu- lation will be comparatively small on the start, though the mining development at hand will steadily increase the popula- tion. There is nothing here for a man who does not come prepared to camp in the delightful cacyons, buy his pro- visions and get out of the country when he gets ready if he does not want to stay. No one should come here looking for em- Where Death Came on Coffee Creek to Old George Magnenati, Who Had a Stony-Hearted Partner. here to-day with the idea that she was going to start a hotel. Quite a number of mining experts and representatives of capitalists are arriving | tolook over the ground and look up the chances of investment. Many are waiting for new finds for which they will give a bond. Graves Brothers have refused $30.000 for the Blue Jay property. To-day the claims of Frank Bighouse on Big Boulder Creek, a tributary of Coffee Creek, were bonded for $25,000 by E. A. Wagner and John Bodiker. There is a quartz and placer claim both lying high on the hill- side and crossing the Blythe ditch. There is a promising ledge two and a haif feet wide, yielding $30 a ton accord- ing to samples, and a soort tunnel has | encountered an eighteen-inch bed of con- glomerate, which 1s said to yield $1 to the pan. Two thousand peovle are camped in the woods and along the waters within the space of less than a square mile at the iower end of Coffee Creek this evening. J. 0. DENNY. oo T SUBSTANTIAL MINING. Good Flelds for Caplital and Legltl- mate Enterprise In Shasta and Trinity. .REDDING, CAL., Aug. 21.—There was a perceptible decrease in the number of ar- rivals bound for the Coffee Creek gold dis- trictto-day. The overland train brought only about fifteen prospectors, but a great many have passed through in prairie schooners and on horseback, and some comical outfits have been seen. One old-time prospector, E. J. Enright, who in early days prospected along Coffee Creek, came from El Dorado County on foot, with a pack-muleloaded with about 300 pounds of provisions, prospectors’ tools, etc. He knows the Coffee Creek country thoroughly, and earnestly be- Two old-time prairie schooners, drawn by jour mules each, arrived here this | afternoon from Butte County. Both were | loaded with prospectors from in and | around Gridley. Oue of these parties had intended going to the Klondike country, but now believe they can do better in | Trinity’s golafields. Letters are being received here every day from many points in the far East in- quiring about the new goldfields, the cost, | the neares: routes, etc. One of these let- ters, dated Carterville, M states among other things that the excitement there over the news of the rich discoveries in Trinity is nearly as intense as it was | over the early discoveries of gold in Cali- | fornia. The letter also states that various | parties are starting out for this city, bound | for Trinity’s Klondike. Another letter received from Ohio brings news of large parties of Ohioans leaving that State for Northern Cali- | fornia. Reports of new strikes are being sent in almost hourly, but so many exceedingly wild rumors have been floated that little credence is placed on any of them until they are fully verified. ~ A teamster just arrived from the neigh- borhood of the Murphy and Burgess strike on Hickory Creek states that con- siderable excitement was created in a camp of greenhorns, situated on Hickory Creek, about two miles from its conflu- ence with Coffee Creek. The party con- sists of four men and two women, the wives of two of the prospectors. Two of the gentlemen were down on the creek panning out dirt and had met with con- siderable success, one of them finding about $5 in one pan and both finding col- orsin every pan washed. The eldest of the two, named Johnson, hailing from San Francisco, left his companion and went a short distance away from the banks of the creek. With a pole pick he began digging around among the loose surface dirt, when his pick encountered a soft, ciay-like sub- stance, gray of color. Johnson picked up quite a chunk of the ‘“clay,’”” and on breaking it open found imbedded in ita nugget or mass of pure gold said to be valued at $65. He called to his companion, and in a short while something like $400 was taken out of this clay substance. The gold has the appearance of being melted and looks like the molten metal inside an assayer's cupel. Toe ladies of the party donned the proverbial '49 overalls and eagerly searched for more clay, and were rewarded with several small finds. Up on Buckeye Creek a grizzly bear came near causing one party to retrace their steps homeward. A quiet, peaceful community of eleven persons was located on Buckeye. They sat night before last enjoying the cool atmo:phere of that locality and talking over their experiences and prospects, when, with a grunt and a growl, an immense grizzly poked his head in from around the corner of the tent. There, was a general scattering of the oc- cupants of that tent, and gold, provisions and the entire outfit were left in bruin’s possession for several moments, when one of the prospectors scraped up sufficient courage to procure a rifle and take a shot at his bearship. The animal departed and the sociability of the campers was re- sumed. The extra stagecoaches running out of this city are filled every trip, and more will be put on Monday. Pack horses and mules for sale are springing up from every point of the compass and quite a comical scene was witnessed here to-day. A farmer from Eastern Shasta broughtina band of about twerty head of mules, and, lining them up and down a block on up- per California street, labeled each with a buge sign as follows: *Kafey Krik muls for sail.”” ployment. The trip and the staying in the woods are cheap enough and the waters and the hills will repay him who canafford it. A ban Francisco lady got The spelling added to the comical ap- pearance of the animals themselves, and was the cause of considerable atten tion, and crowds gathered around the band to lieves thai some extensive discoveries will | yet be wade. | | witness the sicht. Mostof the mules were disposed of, however, at good prices. 1t is reported here to-night that a party of three Oaklanders wiil arrive here from Cofiee Creek to-morrow with about $12,000 in gold taken outin four daysfroma claim they located last Saturday. They claim to have a prospect as rich as that of the Graves brothers, and will leave a man in charge until tbey return. Itis their inten- tion to put in an, extensive plant for the purpo:e of working the gravel. A woman from Oakland left here yester- day for the purpose of starting a laundry at the new town of Coffeeville, on Coffee Creek. She expects to make a smalf for- tune d oing washing for the miners and prospectors. This will practicaily be the first business enterprise in the new town; but more are to follow, and quite a boom in lots is taking place. The shipment of gold out of that district is carefully guard- ed for fear of a hold-up. ‘While Trinity and Shasta counties pre- sent a splendid field for prospectors it presents a better one for capitalists. There are many properties that can be obtained cheap which only require the outlay of capital to produce largely. There is an immense acreage of gravel in low bars and high deposits as yet un- worked. There is an old river channel extending through Trinity Center, past Minersville and Weaverville and on to the Trinity River. The working of Weaver Creek with the adjacent side hills by means of a tunnel to the river wonld be a paying enterprise. Shafts sunk in the Weaver basin through the false bedrock would undoubtedly open up valuable deep diggings. By the expenditure of money a French corporaticn has shown what can be done with a Trinity County placer. There are many as good mining propositions here awaiting capital. These counties need no boom, as their merits rest upon a substantia! foundation. Here is a field for the intelligent, ener- getic and industrious ‘prospectors. No- where can capital be more intelligently invested with a gre:ter certainty of fair returns. B Booms are ephemeral, but old Trinity is on the eve of greatand systematic devel- opment of ber mining interesis, and in the mear future she will take ber place among the gold-producing regions of the world, to which she is entitled by her | natural wealth, and Shasta presents to the mining fraternity endless openings for the uncovering of weaith. While the upper country swarms with prospectors and new strikes are reported daily, yet nothing has been found to date equaling the Graves brothers’ find. How- ever, it is bardly time for much results. As in all mining excitements, a large number of prospectors will draw blanks, still a great many will do well. The Coffee Creek section is undoubtedly rich in placer and guartz gold, and under the thorough prospecting it will now receive many valuable mines will undoubtedly be discovered. The country islarge in ex- tent and there is room for many. —— LEAVING THE MILLS. Men®Giving Up Employment to Rush to the Gold Diggings In Fresno County. FRESNO, Car., Aug. 2L.—The sawmills on Pine Ridge are being deserted by the workmen, Who are rushing to the mining fields on Bear, Laurel and Dinkey creeks. J. H. House, who runs a stage line be- tween this city and the ridge, has inserted anadvertisement in the local papers stat- ing that men are wanted for the mills, This was occasioned by the desertion of the laborers. * They have become excited over the re- ports of the recent discoveries and have turned prospectors for the glittering gold. The mill-owners are having quite a time to keep their plants running. It was at their instance that Mr, House inserted the advertisements. The stage-owner says that his business has increased very much during the past few days, and that he is taking up to the mining regions several prospectors daily from this city. Yesterday a company was quietly formed in this city to buy outa certain company now operating placer diggings on Laurel Creek, The new organization will discontinue the work on the banks of the creek and will begin at the top of the mountain, to which water can be conducted. From there the whole mountainside will be sluiced, in the expectation that some rich veins of quartz will be uncovered. There is a great deal of inguiry regard- ing Fresno's miring field on Pine Ridge, and all reports sent out so far and pub- lished in TrE CALL have been fully sub- stantiatoed by reliable persons. No new reports were received to-day, but with the increased number of miners in the dis- trict news of the unearthing of gold finds can be expected any day. EEe T STORY OF A DEATH. The Passing of George Magnenati and the Disappearance of His Gold. CARRVILLE, CAL., Aug. 21.—Here is a picture and a little story ot life and death on Coffee Creek. Twenty-five years ago two Frenchmen drifted up Coffee Creek and took up placer claims on Union Creek near its mouth a little below Hickory Gulch. They were George Magnenati and Pierre Adams. They went to sluicing gravel in their primitive way and they always took a little gold from the riffles. ‘When that early tide of placer mining which skimmed the cream of gold from the rich bars and channels receded from Coffee Creek they stayed on arnd they sluiced on through all the years. They were frugal and they worked on in their lonely life, seeing a woman once in months when they made the trip of thirty hard miles lor flour and beans. How much gold they gotand what they did with it nobody ever knew. In winter they kept housed up orgot about with snowshoes on the heavy snows oi that high altitude. Those twenty-five vears saw their hair turn gray and their joints stiften. A month or so ago Magnenati fell sick and his old partner nursed and doctored him as best he could. Then death en- tered the o!d cabin and George went up to the Nash mine and told the boys. The funeral occurred a week ago Sunday. No preacher ever got away back on Union Creek near the summit of the Salmon range, and when an old miner dies in the mountains of Trinity there is seldom a shriving of his soul. Pierre seemed cold about it, and the men at the Nash hy- draulic mine, thinking that the death of his lifelong partner ought to make him sorry, made hard remarks about his stony old heart. But rough boards for a box were sawed and packed down to the cabin on a mule, and that Sunday forenoon Sup- erintendent Muitland, Storekeeper Mac- Ilwaine, Foreman McManus and & lot of the men went down. They had dug a erave on the claim of the deceased across the creek where there was a fairly level place, safe from spring floods and with six feet of gravel above bedrock. A little pine tree was cut and trimmed and to this the box and the dead were slung. Four of the pallbearers carried the burden and others steadied it from the side as all waded carefully across the bowlder-filled creek. The three big men present and the rest of the attendants on the obsequies walked across on a little log that spanned the small but noisy stream. When they were tying the box to the young pine tree old Pierre’s stony heart gave way, and he sat down on a rock as the tears came forth. He was soon calm again, and he went along behind the rest to the log. Then -the stony-hearted oid man turned and without a word Le put back iuto the cabin. They went on with the burden over the rough short way to the shait that was not due for gold, and there the box rested deep amid the gold that the old man was sluicing for when the stream of life ceased flowing. The funeral ceremony followed. Mr. Macllwaine made a few well-chosen and appropriate remarks. Heisan intelligent and warm-hearted young man who lived in San Francisco, but who has been among the miners for several vears. It has been Mr. Macllwaine's lot to conduct the fu- neral services of several departed miners in the mountains, bis culture and his grace and readiness of speech having made him by all odds the one for the min- istration in each case. Mr. Macllwaine delivered his address there amid the pines, and the boys lis- tened respectiully. He said something nice about death, and of the deceased it was rightly said that he was a type of those hardy and industrious pioneers to whom the Golden State owes its prosper- ity. Mr. Macliwaine had prepared a few appropriate words in view of the presence of the mourner, and though the latter was down in the cabin they were delivered anyway, and the boys heard that™the de- ceased was more than a brother to the partner he had left behind. It was stones and not clode that fell loudly on the box without disturbing anybody, and then it was all over, except 1n the cabin, where a rough bunk held but one. When Pierre came around during the next few days, calm as before, he waa im- pertinently asked what Magnenati did with his gold. Pierre said that he had buried it and didn’t tell where it was be- fore he died. Perhaps and perhaps. Maybe George rightly thought that it was none of their business. J. 0. DEysy. JOHN L. IN THE RACE. Ex-Champion Sullivan Declares That He Would Like to Be Mayor of Boston. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 2L.—*I am a can- didate for Mayor of Boston. I believe that the city’s interests require a change, and I believe that the interests of the Democratic party demand a change. I was surprised to see the announcement of my candidacy, for it had not been formally announced; but this statement was abso- lutely correct. If the people desire me for their leader [ am at their service.” Thus spoke John L. Sullivan to a CaLL man to-night. Sullivan’s administration will be open and aboveboard. *I wili not cater to the corporations,” he says. Sul- livan believes that in the Democratic party there has grown up and fattened an office-holding, plum-grabbing class which never lets go and which keeps in power by fooling the everyday Democrats. Sulliaan did not care to dwell at length on the cold storage manner in which Mayor Quincy greeted his proffered hand of friendship at the Ten Eyck reception. «I have held out my hand to larger men than he is,” said the ex-champion, “‘and it was not ignored. I have shaken hands with Queens, Princes, ministers, states- men, Governors and with plain politi- cians like myself. He had no reason to be afraid of me. Of course, he did just as he wanted to do, but I confess that I was surprised. We bave had Mayors in this city who were proud to grasp the hand of John L. Sullivan, and they were popular Mayors, too. I did not attend the recep- tion for the sake of detracting from the glory which rightfully belonged to young Ten Eyck. He is a world’s champion, just as I was a world’s champion. Poss: bly the Mayor draws the line at ex-cham- pions. They tell me he is calculating in such things, and that even on the finan- cial question he straddles when he can’t pick a winner. As Iunderstand men, that kind of work is not popular. Did you ever see me doing that?'’ . JILTED LOVEL'S DESPERATION, Fatally Wounds His Former Sweetheart, ¥ Then Kills Himuelf. DALLAS, TEX., Aue. 2L.—There was a big sensation caused in this city to-day by the news of a murder and suicide which occurred ten miles from here. A disappointed lover shot his sweetheart and then killed himself. The name of the would-be murderer is William Row- land. It appears that for some time past | he had been courting a pretty girl named Ida Kalczkasski. First Ida smiled on him, and then jilted him the worst kind. He asked her to marry him, but she posi- tively refused, ‘This greatly angered Row- land, and he became insanely jealous. He attributed the girl’s refusal to the fact that she loved another. At noon to- day he went to the home of her parents, about ten miles from this city, and again asked her hand in marriage. The girl simply laughed at him and gave a very prompt refusal. Rowland then, without word of warning, shot her, it is believed fatally, and then killed bimself. —_————— Avions Start on Their Xellowstona Trip, NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 2L—The special train chartered for a trip across the coutinent to Yellowstone Park and back, at a cost of $18,000, by 125 members of the Arion Society, of this city, has started on its journey from the Wee- hawken (N. J.) depot of the West Shore road. The excursionists were given a grand send-off by the Arion band and the *stay-at-home’’ members: ' ~ NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. SHOVELING FAST and FURIOQUS! Prices Never Talked Louder Than they do to-day. Such trifles as loss never enter our mind when we have a shoveling contract on hand. Tumble! The last days of Awdust will show a tumble in prices and create a sensa- tion. Suwits for dress-up occasions, for business wear, in blue and black twills; in these pretty brown over-plaids that are so swell; in sindle and double breasted styles. We won’t attempt to mention the former prices of these sarments. 1It'stoo ridiculous. We'll tumble ‘em out Monday at L Our Corner Window Is Our Salesman. ‘ 1 é%é’(l, @%/?W and DO SHOVELING! Some Right Swell Melton Overcoats in Oxford, blue, black and Havana brown ; cut in many lengths, good winter weidht, made with deep velvet collars, ele- dantly tailored, perfect fit- ting sarments. Doublethe price is nearer their value. We’ll Shovel ’Em Out Monday at 50,00 - See ’em in our corner window. Gaze Into Our Corner Windowr And yow’ll see some of the handsomest Swits yow ever laid eyes wpon. $15 has been our price, but the lines are broken. Youw'll surely find youwr size among’em. Grab’em quick. They're sreat value. ON SALE MONDAY at —-4p7 50— -§190.- NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE CROWDS ARE AT THE BIG KEARNY-STREET STORE. KEARNY SI O-11131>