The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-17
THE PASSING THRONG.

L. II. Jensen, general manager Of the ewauk
Bedrock Fiume Company: was In the city
short time yesterday. '.We have been prospect
ing our ground this season, with satisfactory re-
suits. We have sunk severas shafts to bedrock.
both at the mouth OF the cresk and further up,
and on an average we gos fifteen and twenty
colors to the pan. In the spring We shall start
to build the aume. aud dur5ag the summer ex-
pecs to begin hydraulicking 1t the mouth OF the
creek. Our company took up fifteen claims,
extending six miles up the creek from the
mouth. When we determined to build Hume
on the bedrock the miners COR Ave miles above
US gave Us q concession OF 5weuty-five feet on
each side OF the fiume to exsend it up the creek
that distance. The dimensions of the fume
will be eight feet wide ~ three feet deep.
The other miners want the Hume built
for drainage purposes, because in sink
ing their shafts the water comes III
on them through the grayeilg soil The depth
OF gravel IL from fourteen feet ~ the month OF
the creek to eight feet at the head. and the gold
is all coarse. Up towards the head OF the creek
some very fine nuggets have been taken out OF
the stream. The irrigation Glitch OF the kittitas
company crosses the Yakims about half mile
from the mouth of Swauk Geek. and from this
ditch we can get head OF $50 feet for hydraulic
work As We work up the stream we can put IN
dams and run our own pipe .ines. This district
IL In pretty good shape. AsoGt thirty miners
are working in the placers ors Swauk and fifteen
oreighteen onWilliams creek which empties into
the swauk. About q dozen quartz claims are
also being developed on the sides OF the creek,
and at two of them arastras are being used to
grind the rock. By the end IL next season We
expect to be in full blast"
Cases of mistaken identity are common
enough; sometimes they are ludicrous, and
sometimes serious. OF this latter kind was that
OF Capt. Jensen, who the other day mistook an
honest citizen for thief he was looking for,
and was Knocked down for bis mistake. But q
sensational story in the Tacoma Ledger yester-
day had no other than this kind OF founda-
ton. 1t related the story OF man named Link
who said that he had travelled from Seattle to
Tacoma week ago with Post, whom he knew
well. j. c. Sharpe at the Grand last night said:
81 have often met a man both here and in Ia
coma whom always mistook for Post, and /
again met the same man todey and got to talk
ing to him about the resemblance. We then got
to talking about Post and the story of Mr.. Link
about travelling with Post week ago. why
said the man. whose name / don't know, but
who ! think is q Portland travelling man,
that man Link was taking to me. l
recollect him very well, new. There was q
good deal in his talk that did not understand,
but can now see that he took me for Post
thought you might want to use the item, If for
no other purpose than to set at rest any doubt
about the matter In the minds Of Posts friends"
W. J. Magee, of Anacortes, general manager
OF the Kittitas Valley Irrigation Canal Com
pany, was at the Arlington last night ave
started work on the enterprise about two
months ago." said he, "and have now 800 men
! at work clearing the right OF way. This will be
done, however, in about twenty days, when we
shall commence the work Of excavating and
grading. We shall finish the work next season.
The ditch will be about eighty-two miles long;
its width will be twenty-five feet at the bottom
and forty-four feet on top. ana six and a half
feet deep. We will be able 20 irrigate 100, OOO
acres OF the finest land out OF doors. The land
under the ditch has all been entered, and much
OF 1t has been patented. With water on the
land, it will be worth from $4e to SIS per acre"
City Treasurer Krug receives some odd letters
from absentee property owners when enclosing
their taxes. Yesterday he resolved one from G.
F. W. Wcygandt, of Millstadt ILL.,, which says,
among other things: "For TIE cents more a.
the tax list calls for you mag drink a glass OF
beer, because Seattle carried the canal issue. I
have lived in Seattle for two gears and like It
very we'll out there. I have the Seattle POST
INrELLIGENcER come here to geep myself posted
on everything. hope they will carry the canal
to finish in the near FUTURE
Edmund P. Dole, the attorney, left yesterday
for his former home, Keene, \. H., on business.
Mr.. Dole 10 not only an able lawyer. but has won
honorable distinction as the author OF book,
"Talks About Law" popular statement Of
what our law Is and how it Is admins tered.
This book Is acknowledged 10 be the best ever
written for the purpose of storing the lay mind
with legal principles. Mr.. Dole during the re-
cent political campaign did marked and highly
appreciated service on the stump for the Repub-
hcan ticket