Show THE NORTH FORK PLACERS in an elaborate write up of the mining interests of coffee creek in trinity county california mineral wealth of redding reading makes the following mention of the north pork fork placers in which hon E G rognon and other prominent salt lakers are interested viz this tributary of coffee creek was in the early days one of the best producers of trinity county in fact there is a place on the upper portion of its stream where hardly a vestige remains of a once prosperous settlement nothing of consequence in the way of easy diggings has been operated of late years years most of the activity being confined to 0 the operations of the north fork placer mining company which up to this season has for the past several years been carrying on hydraulic mining now however it is intended to operate similarly sim ilary to the nash mine dispensing 11 with the piping apparatus the only detracting feature is the lack of dump the company is comprised of salt take lake business people and controls acres or over three miles of the stream this year a four mile trail will be built down the stream giving 11 easier access to the trinity side and work has also been commenced on a foot tunnel to open up the mine for sluicing E R H scott is superintendent what promises to open into one of the greatest gravel properties of upper coffee creek and northern trinity is the claim now being opened by scott it is a firmly positioned ancient cl channel annel running about thirty feet above the present channel bed and is of great dimensions at one point a running water cut shows it 4 00 feet wide and it is traceable for the length of several claims such an area of gravel thirty to forty feet deep is a proposition of no mean possibilities especially one that bears the encouraging prospects this does through the gravel from a scientific standpoint its discovery has introduced quite a geological puzzle it can only be conjectured as to whether it once formed the part of an immense channel that millions of years ago flowed in from the you side hundreds of feet above present mountain ranges or whether it was a perhaps greater length of time forming with its source only a few miles away these are matters almost beyond reasonable consideration but there is one thing evident and that is that the heavy gold of the present stream comes from the ancient mammoth channel |