Our Rush Three placer mining claim lies in the Weaverville Gold District near Weaverville, Ca. Weaverville, the seat of government of Trinity County, is about 50 miles west-northwest of Redding. For years it was one of the major centers of gold mining in the Klamath Mountains. The area was settled son after Major Pearson B. Reading's gold discovery on the Trinity River in 1848. The stream and bench gravels were highly productive during the gold rush. The town was named for John Weaver, a prosperous Forty-Niner. By the middle 1850s many persons lived here, including several thousand Chinese, some of whom became involved in a tong war in 1854. The old Chinese joss house still stands and is now a state historical monument.

Work Cited: “Gold Districts of California” Edition 193. William B. Clark. 1998

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