(Trinity) Trinidad, Cal./April 24th, 1851. Manuscript postmark with matching "Paid 40" rate on folded cover to New York, letter datelined "Port of Trinidad" with interesting contents,I have followed mining with ill success, I am now trying packing Provisions to the mines… I may have better or worse luck. I have not done near as well in California as I did in Chile. I have some thousands of dollars invested in a Mill in Chile and it give me good interest., letter talks of starving miners, There is a great scarcity of provisions on the Salmon River. Reports say that there is many starving, before that I left I saw a great number of men that had eaten nothing but dried apples…they tell me that the Miners are living on Mule meat, several edge splits, F.-V.F., this is the only recorded example of this postmark of this short lived Post Office which was in Trinity County for less than a year and used on the last day of the Post Office prior to it being transferred into Klamath County on April 24, 1851. Estimate  $200 - 300. $0 (Image)