Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-11-30
LATEST FROM THE YUKON.
News of Fabulous Clean-ups Made During the Past Season.
 Alaska NeEs.)

Among the passengers from Stka tC
 arrive this morning none were more
 welcome than what is known as 'Sliu
 Jim's" party of Yukoners. Their arriya
 was somewhat of surprise as the last
 news had of them was that they were
 encamped at Sixty Mile creek waiting
 for the launching of tha Beaver upon
 which they expected to travel up stream
 Gs far as possible and come out via Dyea
 Their non-appesrapce during the past few weeks and also on account ot the
 lsteness of the season caused their
 friends to think they could not possibly | get out this fall unless they came out
 over the ice. It now traspires they did
 not try to make the journey on the
 Beaver, but left Forty Mile on the N. l A. T. and T. Co.'S boat Septem Der for | St. Micheels. The latter point was left October 4 arriving at Unaleska the l0tb and from thence came to Sitka on the Dora. The party to arrive in Juneau
 consisted of James Vim, J. s. McCau-
 ley, Chas. Morse, w. c. Leek, and John
 Bassett, each being the happy possesso.
 O! a long buckskin sack nlied with the
 yellow Iucre.
 In conversation with MessEs. Vim and McCauley we learn of another new strike having ben made in the Birch creek district news of which not hcviuc hnH {. ,t arrival at Siika. The new discovery was made by Dick Lowe, well known iD Juneau, and is a small stream 6bout three miles below MasiOdon creek, which the camp joshers quickly named I'm horn creek in honor of it5 discovesor But a short time could be spent in pros pectiDg It on account of the cold weather In two and one-haif days Dick washed oOt Sl30 with gold pan, his larges: nugget weighing S53. In less time than 1t tskes to tell It Ihe creek was located from oneend to the other and next season We may look for some great ciean ups from 1t. Glacier creek has kept good the reputation established last season, and it has turned out about as much ] gold this season as any creek in Birch 1 creek district. On the key cl.im | owned by French Canadian twenty two | men each with a gold pan made a novel l test of it's richness. They all began work | at the same instant and in one hours | time they p8nEed out over S400, the | lowest pan taken out weighing S34. Bot | Ainsley, also an old-time Juneauite, | has very fine claim. He bought B | one- fourth interest ID another claim | about six months prior to the psrty l leaving for St MichRels, paying for Il Si2O0 cash and the balance on bedrock. | In five weeks time he cleaned up the | balance of the purchase price amount ing to S2,200. The largest nugget taken put this season weighed o234 and came from Ainsley's Glacier creek clam. Pro- VisioDs are not plentiful ss has been re- ported heretofore, and everyone going in is advised to take all the supplies pos i ole. Whiskey seems to have been the principal commodity this seasOn and it is thought five gallons of it was taken in to every 100 pounds of four. Two hun 1red Yukoners left St Michaeis at tha same tune on the Bertha. They all wanted to come through Junebu, but the Dora refused 10 carry them from Unalaska and they had to continue on to San Francisco. There was rot man that did not have money, the entire 900 averaging 1000 each. Two had over S20,000 and the sacks ranged from that figure down to 1,C00. Those who arriv- e6 in Juneau this morning will all re- tu n to their claims in the spring.