The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-18
MILLIONS IN Sight.
100000 in Alaskan
Gold Nuggets.
Found by a Propector in
the North.
Bushels of the Yellow Treasure Lying
Around and Waiting fer Some
body to Come to Pick it Up.

| body to Come to Pick it Up.
Probably the most extraordinary
gold mine in this country is the bar
the writer in Alaska, and known since
then the world over as the Lost
Rocker"
| Those nuggets are still there, 1 am
confident, and many more besides in
the immediate neighborhoOd, awaiting
discovery at the hands of some ven
tureSome proSpectors who shall brave
the perils of the wilderness and make
| the richest strike in the history of the
yellow metal.
| Several days ago there appeared in
the New York papers an account of
the attempts of a DR.. Mulcahy, of
Juneau City, Alaska, to rediscOver the
"Lost Rocker" The story had been
published in a San Francisco paper
and was telegraphed from that city.
| My attention was called to the article
by the only person in New York who
was cognizant of the interest L had
in it.
The tale as related was substantial
ly correct, with the exception that
three men instead of two were tOgeth-
ed when the discovery was made of
the wonderful Lake of the Golden
Bar"
These three men were Charles Ul-
rich, Walter Olsen Stanford general
ly called "Ole' by us), and the writer,
who now gives the first authentic ac-
count of this vast deposit of precious
metal.
Almost fabulous will seem this mar
rative and past belief. Yet on this
bar, in this small lake, which was
about three miles long and about
three-quarters to mile wide, we saw
millions in nuggets and coarse and
fine yellow grains of gold.
Two hundred miles from any civ
ilization, we worked like madmen for
over forty days, gathering from this
Iglitterins, seemingly ineXhaustible
store fully $4,000, which we put in a
cache as fast as we could pan" it.
That the stored stake we secured, as
well as the far greater store on the
bar, is there today, 1 do not doubt. /
Ishould be willing, with proper equip
ment, to go and recover it. l am
quite certain that 1 could lead a party,
properly fitted out, and make the lake
and the bar without much difficulty,
loCdtluss II IL tolSCIhSu.
$7,OO0,OOO IN PLAIN SIGHT.
Once there, 1 am sure we could find
the gold intact-$7, 100000 of it in
Isight. That was the estimate made
Iby "Ole'' Stanford, an old proSpector,
Iand one of the best judges of pay
spot" that l ever knew.
The mining camp Wrangel lies some
400 miles south of Juneau, over an
Il I,I III
communication between these two
Golden Bar lies about equi-distant
from the three points-Sitka, Juneau
and Wrangel-and at about the centre
of triangle formed by these places.
RICH IN PRECIOUS METALS.
The great Yukon river country,
which is the central zone of this great
unknown area, is region where the
lrichest minerals abound in lavish pro
fusion. Gold, silver, copper and veins
IOf Ignite coal are found everywhere
Throughout the northern and central
districts. Further south are found
vast deposits of the purest, yellowest
lgOld. On the slope of the mountains,
in the valleys, along the innumerable
water courses, among the punched
|hills and mountains, in whose valleys
lmany small lakes-clear crystal, shall
low basins of water-are hidden, lies
untold, undreamed-of wealth, in mug
get and grain gold, waiting to be gath
Tered. There is more gold in this reg
ion of Alaska than ever has been TAX
en- from all the mines of the world
for two centuries past.
| The Yukon is not only the largest
river in Alaska, but it is the largest
American river flowing into the Pa
cific ocean. Its source is i'll, the North
ern Rocky mountains, on the north
western slope of what is known as
the Macmillan range, and in the
Upper Ramparts."
Here is that vast and wonderful
| "granary of gold" whence came the
nuggets and yellow DUST gathered
from the placers of Washington, Ida
no, Montana, Nevada, Colorado and
California for fifty years past. And
when we struck this treasury of the
gods" we knew from the infallible
signs that nature in which the prec-
ious metal was transmitted from the
baser elements.
PURSUING THE YELLOW PHAN-
| TOM
| In August of 1884 I was knocking
about the West, first in one spot and
then another. Newspaper work, of
any kind, from comp" to editor, was
my trade. 1 turned my hand to any
thing to make "bread and butter
living"
| l had two chums or companions
with me at the time I dropped into
Butte City, Mont, on Aug. 5, 1884. AS
there was not much going in Butte,
Ulrich suggested that we, that is, the
three of us, move north to Spokane.
| At Spokane we loafed for several
days. We had some few hundred
dollars and found places to spend it.
When our pile was reduced to less
than "half a century" we began seri-
ously to consider the ways of raising
more. Spokane was lively, Oh the
boom. but there was nothing. appar-
emily, for us. At last we decided to
go on prospecting ramble once more.
We left Spokane on the morning Of
Aug. II. 1884, moving north eighty
miles to Lake Kootenai "Bonner's
Ferry was our object point, and after
nine days of leisurely tramping and