Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-10-27
YUKON GLEANlNGS
Miners Arriving--AbOut Average Re. sults---A S19 Nugget---FOur New
 Deaths Reported,

| Suile---<t CIJ NtW Deaths Reported, Alaska Free Press.l On last Saturday evening the sloop Olympia returned from the portage hay ing on board party of sixteen returning miners, on Sunday other smaller parties came ip. On Friday evening yester- dsy) the steamer Julia and Wand's open boat brought down twenty-two. From them we glesn the following news: Tn the neighborhood of fifty men will winter on Forty Mile.
 About eighty miners will come out by way of St. MichsePs, or the mouth of the Yukon.
 Four miners are at Hesly's waiting to come down, and about twenty more are now on the road out.
 The Day boys did well this summer. and have enough good ground to last two years yet.
 When the last arrivals left Forty Mile creek there were still about one hundred miners washing on that stream. Considerable coarse gold was taken out of Franklin gulch this season, some pieces weighing ss f'gh ss 5 to SS 50.
 Jack Fisher and George Donaldson will winter on Forty Mile. When last seen they were working Sl0 diggings, 1ne miners returning now left the ! di:gmgs about the middle of the wash ing season, consuming about forty days n the trip out.
 Jack Moore went as far as Stewart rIv- CT. He informs us that probably not more than six men will winter on that stream.
 Myron Johnson wlll winter on Forty Mile, where be is disposIng of his wet goods at a good figure. Six dollars s bottle or four bits smile,
 Dutch Kate" the only women who bas yet veutured into the mining camps on the Yukon. made the trip in safety. mouth of the river.
 A number of the last party brought with them heavy sacks of dust, some containing as much as S400. But the larger sacks were the result of two sea sons work.
 The average pay on Forty Mile creek | thIs year has been from & to BIO per day, although some claims paid higher. Wages paid to placer miners were SS per day.
 It is reported that Howard Hamilton \ brought out about S3.000 in dust, Mir. Pardue who has been ID for seven years about Sl000, NJ. Riley about S40O0 and several other parties ss high as SlOOO.
 The largest nugget taken out this ear weighed Sl9. The nugget together with | S2OO in dust was sent out by Wm. Nc Phee. IL contained considerable quartz. A.C. Mckee stated he averaged from $ to Sl7 per day during the time he worked his claim. He brought out about | $500 iu dust with him. When he left | Al0ers Wilson and Wm. McPhee were washing on Forty Mile on SlO dIgg'nGs. Tommy Ashby and Billy Lesk, who | have spent two seasons on Forty Mile, | came out with a good sack of dust. which | some say weighed as much as S6e0 but as placer miners are very retlcent abort what they hsvs done. and will give no Information in this respect. We cannot vouch for the amount. However the Ooys dia well.
 Lastyear two prospectOrs named John ! Braner and Eugene Joggart were killed by an Indian below ,FOrty Mile. l; x
 reported th6t the miners hanged :hs uu- derer immediatey. Joku B-Rrner was
 an old Alaskan psospector, hsviug pens- l trated 70 the Yukon by way of Cop. q
 rver, He vss the white mIDer who sc cclpauied Lieut.. Allen ID 1880 ID hi'
 explorations of the Copper and Tansnsh
 This has been s most unfavOrsble sea | son for placer mining on the Yukon, ov- | ing 10 n greRt amount of rainfall and | consequently high water Tn the cTet k | and rivers. The richest bars lay los | down along the edge of the streams and | during the fore part of the washing sen son they were submerged in water snd could not be worked. Consequently not near the smoant of gold wes taken out
 ss vould have been had 1t been a more fauorable season. However, coDsiders ble gold dust has already been brought | ort.
 The miners have all come to the con- | clusion that thkitg into consideration | the time consumed ], getting ID and out l of the country. the high .Jrics of provI- sions and the hsrdshIps endured, nOth- in lees than Sl5 diggings will pay them
 for t-s trip, However they are free to | say t..st ss soOl as 6 road IS tliii over the portage the steam boats put on tn river. the Yukon wIll be great country as there l. much grouDd there that will pay under more favorable circumstances | Ii is their opinion also thst the cre6m uf | the country has not been found. | '.If the Yukon country was only along the ccsst or some place where 1t could be easily penetrated and miners could spend their whole time ID actual mining, | instead of two-thirds of if on the road to | hnr st Unnld haEQ and the amount of gold it would have would be enormous, remarked a miner | iust returned from that section.
 "I left Juneau last spring, reached the | diggius on Forty Mile in tune to get ID
 sbolt thirty days actual washing time
 before started to return. I made on
 su average of from SS to ST per day,
 although the gravel was thin and l used only the primitive mode-the rocker. The surface gravel where I washed pad almost nothing, and 1t was only thin layer of grayIsh gravel on the bed rock that pad From long experience ID
 placer pnining, | am led to believe that the wash coevsl with the glacial period deposited the rold there, but from
 whence it came future prospecting has
 vet to determine. The wash ls:terly and
 st the present time seems to contain but
 very little of the auriierous and the two
 washes differ grestly, and apparently have emannted from different formations.
 In instances where large nuggets have
 been found. the gold Is associated with
 qusrtz. which oBuses me to believe that
 the wash gold originally came from
 quartz veins. That the ice has brought
 these deposits down the river IS very
 evident for reason that nuggets from SJ
 to $40 weight do not travel very far by
 running water and such nuggets have
 been fouud far down the stream.
 "But did I make my trip pay? No,
 just al put made expenses. To get out
 o. the count : had to leave just in the middle of the working season. Had
 remained 1 calculate that I could have
 taken out about S5C0 more this season.
 bat that amount would jus! about have
 w:n,erei noe and gwen me Q small outfit
 of provisions next spring, SO had l re-
 mainei ID I codld not have made my
 trip profitable one. The way the coun- Ity Is now situated. the diRgings will
 have to pay Sl5 per day to make the trip
 s psN ug ore, and ID my travels l dida't