on the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas, at an altitude of about 1,800 

 feet, and was, till a short time ago, the terminus of a branch of the 

 Southern Pacific system. It has a good grammar school, and a new county 

 high school. Religious denominations are well represented. Business and 

 residence places are lighted by electricity from the American River Electric 

 Power Company, whose plant is on the south fork of the American River, 

 about four miles from town. 



There are a number of attractive summer resorts in the county that 

 have their quota of pleasure-seekers every summer. Tourists and campers 

 find the mountains an ideal place to spend their time. 



Trinity County 



JAMES W. BARTLETT 

 Chairman Trinity County Development Association 



PROBABLY some research on the part of many an intelligent resident 

 of California would be required before locating Trinity County on 

 the map of the State. Nevertheless this old county of California, 

 embracing an area of about three thousand square miles, organized 

 in 1850, has contributed, it is estimated, one hundred millions of 

 dollars of California's gold to the world, and to-day, in its mining, lumber- 

 ing, grazing, dairying, and pleasure-seeking resources, offers opportunities 

 that cannot be surpassed in any part of the State. 



With an average rainfall of forty-two inches, and mountains sufficiently 

 high to retain the winter snowfall until late in summer, there is always an 

 abundance of water for mining, agricultural, and power purposes, while 

 a temperate climate enables work of every kind to be successfully and 

 economically prosecuted throughout the entire year. 



For over fifty-six years mining has been, and still is, the main Industry. 

 It has been chiefly prosecuted in the form of hydraulic and quartz mining, 

 and those are still the leading branches under which the industry is con- 

 ducted. Here is to be found the hydraulic giant tearing down the mountain- 

 side without dread of Anti-Debris Association or restraining Injunction. 

 Four miles from Weaverville the La Grange Company is conducting what 

 is said to be the largest hydraulic mining operation in the world to-day, 

 while at Union Hill, Dutton's Creek, Minersville, Hay Fork, Lower Trinity, 

 Buckeye Mountain, and various other points bodies of gravel are rapidly 

 being developed and equipped which give every indication of being as 

 extensive as those which are being worked by the La Grange Company. 



During the present year plants of the latest improved patterns for 

 quartz mining have been installed at the Bullychoop and Bonanza King 

 mines, while at numerous points throughout the county new strikes, the 

 development of former discoveries, the crushing and shipment of ores 

 from its working quartz mines, in conjunction with the active mining of 

 the various hydraulic mines, have given to the entire county one of the 

 most prosperous years it has ever enjoyed. 



To either prospector or investor in the mining business Trinity offers 

 Inducements which cannot be excelled in any other part of California. Its 

 territory of mineral-bearing lands is so large that a great part of the same 

 is as yet unlocated and but partially prospected, and every part of this 

 mineral section is well watered, and has an abundance of timber and 

 pasturage. A particularly favorable field is offered for elevator mining. 

 Large bodies of land about which there is no uncertainty as to value lie 

 unworked along the river bars and beds of streams, which would unques- 

 tionably yield highly profitable returns to judicious installations of ma- 

 chinery required to conduct this species of mining. 



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