Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-10-25
He Is a '49er and Has Dug Out
$4,000 in Alaska.
THE PROSPECTS FOR MINERS
Between One Thousand and Fifteen Hun.
dred Men Will Winter on the
Yukon This Season.

SOUND country and who afterwards
went to Alaska, became the editor end
proprietor of the Alaskan News got |
mixed up in several big paying mining
claims, left the newspaper business and |
became an out and out mine owner, is
in Seattle, having come down from
Alaska last Saturday on the steamer
Willapa,
1t is his intention to spend few days
with his Puget sound friends and go to
Berkeley, where he will winter with |
MS friends. Mr.. Carpenter brings down
reliable mining news from Alaska
don't care to discuss Alaska very
extensively" said Mr.. Carpenter to a |
Seattle Times reporter. you see so
very much has been said for and
against our country that one is more
or less criticised no matter what kind
OF a statement is made for the press.
Nevertheless, the country has been
done great injustice by miners or So
called miners who have come among us
and left in little while without finding
any gold.
Il don't know that I would advise a
man to go to Alaska unless he has
money or is a thorough miner. In fact
we have about all of the miners we
need at the present time and unless
some new mining districts are develop
ed in the spring / should say that we
will not have room for any more min
ers next year. However, new districts
are to be found and hard working min
ers are finding them and getting good
money out OF them.
Some people say there are no for
tunes to be made in Alaska. That is a
mistake. Let me tell you about Peter
Wyborg. He is an old 'forty-niner,'
with years of experience, and has made
and lost fortunes. Just a few weeks
ago he arrived at Juneau after spend
ing two years on Glacier creek, which
Is in the Forty-Mile mining district on
the Yukon river. Wyborg had with
him $4,000 in gold. In his trunk he
had about twenty-six pounds of the
| stuff, equal to about $4,000, which he
| carried with him for the purpose of
| paying expenses, etc. At the hotel
| where he made his headquarters while
| in Juneau was Christol Odds, the
daughter of the proprietor. One day
the old miner gave her nugget worth
| $25, just because he had taken a fancy
to her. He shipped his big fortune to
San Francisco on the Alaska CONNER
| cial Company's steamer Dora, which
| charged him the enormous sum of $1,000
| for conveying the same from Alaska to
| California.
There is no doubt that Wyborg was
in great luck, but you must understand
| that others are making fortunes. But
| many of the miners give up before they
| have had an opportunity of finding
out what there really is in the coun
try Bear and Resurrection mining
districts are located on Cooks Inlet
about 200 miles from the mouth. The.
are regarded as great mining districts
From the first of last June until tn
middle of July should say that abou
200 men went there for the purpose o
making ttheir- fortunes.
"a good many Of '''ttif sfeeska game iron
California. They were taken assSar a
Ladd's station on the brigantine Mar
ion and made the remainder of thS
journey in small sloops and schooner
running up and down the creek. A
number of these men came from Puge|
sound. They found that about all o.
the claims on Bear creek, which is one
year old, and Resurrection creek
which has been worked for some year:
past, has been taken and they at once
became disheartened Instead of start
ing out and trying to locate some new
district they waited about the old dis
tricts for a time and then concluded
to get out. Consequently they sold theil
outfits for mere songs and the old sta
| ee,~s' who were at work were enabled
TO b,Iy bacon for from to cents 6
Mound and flour for about So cents &
sack.
Some OF the men got out of the coun
trv as rapidly as possible, while 9th
ers seemed too poor to get out. A maj
named Riley took $4,000 out of Beal
creek last year.
"About the time all of the men wer'
getting out of the old district instead o
hunting up new districts, Sanfor'
Mills. an old miner with years of exper
fence, started out on prospecting triI
AS he expressed it, all of the claims i
the old districts were monopolized an
he considered 1t his duty if he wante
to stay in Alaska to get out and FIN
something new. He located IN a yer
short time what is known as Six-Mil
creek and was taking about $40 out c
, the soil day with his crude tools. II
had two men with him and they wer
doing the same.
cat Mills Fork, Bob Michaelson an
a party consisting of men named Pric
Pierce and Brown of Seattle and ma
4 named Renner, reclaimed the bed of tn
| creek and in five days they took OF
with two rockers 1890. They were s
! e, xcited that they gave the snap ava
| on day when they went to Resurre'
| tiolt creek for provisions and in fe
| day there was big rush for the plac
But Michaelson and his party had Il
catet / the best claims and they mac
big n loney and will continue to do 8
From 1000 to 1900 miners will winter {
the Yn kon this winter"
Mr.. G, arpenter has several valuab
claims I, | the vicinity of Cooks Inl
and will cave in the middle of Mart
with his 81 'oop Caroline and a party
miners for Alaska.