Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13
ED. SCHIEFFELIN's RETURN

What the Vrteren ProsPsetor says about the Northern Gold Fieids
 The exped ton of the veteran Ari-
 zona prospector, E1. Sehieffelin, Jo
 Alaska was one of those daring acts
 Jhat SD often command the admiration
 Of the world. It was hoped that the h.
 trepld miner would find another boLaa- za, but 1t seems that hIs best efforts were
 not successful, and be then returned to
 Los Angeles. TEe following intervIev,
 is published by San Francisco paper,
 Lives hls ideas of Ala ka and its gold
 prospects:
 Ed. Schieffelin, the veteran prospect
 or, being lnte rvIewed, sad that AIaSEH
 night contain mineral in paying quan
 lues. but he and his party hsu Lot succeeded III discovering II. They start
 ed up ID June, 1881, and at St. MIch-
 aels lett the schooner and made theIr
 gay up the Yukon rlver in the lttle
 steamboat SJO miles, where a substen-
 dal log cabin was built and winter quarters were struck. ID the mean tine
 ochletieLn dId sOme prospecting and found cUlOrs ut "hOat gold" Dunug fbe winter be, ID dOg-sleu, accOmpa- Iled by an IndIan, trayersed about l,5JO miles Of the country. The next sprIng
 prospecting commenced, and the Oest .OuLd would go but from SlO to Sl5 day to the man. Owing co the country, ,hls would not pay. The country was too cold and ma -esslble to ever amount 70 much for d mining country. ProvIs- Inus, tools, etc, had to be taken there NIs a circumstances II would ta.e one yea get prepa' ed to go to work, and then July three months could be put In Ill work. the inner necessarily having tU be Idle the other nine months.
 The Yukon River, he saId, might not l be us long as the Mleslsslppi, but IL ]
 rObably contained ss much water. At l the mouth 1t spread over a vast surface, l aud as yet no channel permitting of tue | entrance of a schooner had ever been | discovered. The engineer of his party, | Charles FairchOIt, was the only one that | lad faith enOu- b Ill the country to stay | They had left hin provisions enough to | iast him three or four years to come, and he proposed to stay Tn the old quar I ters tO prJsp' ct till he got tirec or found something. The at New hook | st they had sold, and Falrchoit had tt ted himself up canvas canoe in which ne had uOIlers and engines, and with the httle craft be could ascend nearly all tht nttle streams.
 The party did not succeed in finding d single quartz ledge, although the ground was fairly strewn with white barren quar,z, such as Is familiar Co al old miners. In going up there, the gentleman ~aIi be had calculated on the l great American mineral belt running c. the n Hrth of the Yukon river, but now he was satisfied that II crossed to tn, south, and went on over to Slberia He went too lar tO tue north and east. Even II good quartz mines are disc,,v- cred there he, was der the impression that tine ore would have to be shipped B nth Co work and for him he had losi nothing Tn Alaska valuable enough c. induce him to go back there. His dis position impelled him to go on pros 1ectlug expeditions and be had no idea lf giving up the business, but where he would go next he dId not know. Speak ng aEaln of Ala ka he sad as far as he l lud seen, the whole country was dis .urbed by water which caused the cOar>e q gold to grRvltate 10 the bedrock, and ] < he bedrock had by some action become D ,rnken 0p and fall of seams, an Co get ' he gold the bedrock wonld have to be d FOrked to great deptp, and as 1t was q 'rry hard, that would take away all . ha profits of good mine-Los An ' 'eles Times. [