The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-13

creek.
Clear creek. about % miles up; several
small discoveries were made. but no work
was done.
Mcouestion rivs- is much larger than
any Of the creeks mentioned. Several
good bars have been worked on this river,
some paying as high as so per day WIN
rockers. Some work has been dore on ne
side creeks enptyin- into the Mc@uestion-
\ dozen men wintered there IN 1874. but
were not very successful The prospect
was unsatisfactory on account OF the
country seeming 70 be sDringy ard not
freezing % bed rock. making X difficult 70
get down 70 pay. The McCuestlon Is sup
posed 10 head clnse 10 Beaver river. which
Is the largest branch of the North FORK
OF the Steward.
Forty mi IS further up and on the south
side IS Crooked creek. upon the bars OF
which gold has been found. but not IN SUI
fcieat quantities 10 justify work Thsre
has been 10 prospecting aside from sur
face work done on this creek AT the head
OF both Crooked and Lake creeks are a
number OF lakes. several fully twenty
miles In length.
Mayo river comes in on the northern
hank about 20 miles above Crooked creek.
About six miles from the Stewart on i
there IS 3 canyon which extends Tor SIX
miles and through which II IS Impossible
70 take a boat. Two boats We're portrayed
around the cayon in 1894 and the river
traversed for about 70 miles. Gold was
found more or less on the bars all along.
the best being where the party turned
back. In the canyon coarse gold was
found IN several places. As high as Ice
a pan, taking II out Of the water, was
found here. Since then but one party has
gone up the river.
Heads mt Mt. Jesus.
From the Mayo to the Fraser falls IS 40
miles OF fat country teeming with moose
The river here is sluggish and nc gold is
likely to be found.
The first creek above the falls was
named No Gold creek. which is self-ex-
planatory from the first prospeetor's
standpoint.
Fifty miles above No Gold creek the
Stewart divides into two forks OF equal
size one running 10 tic east and the other
10 the northeast The eastern branch,
called the South Fork, is practically vir-
gin territory. The only prospect known
was that made by L. Ellis. who In 1890
found coarse gold on a creek emptying in
on the north side about 50 miles up the
river.
Lansing creek. about so miles above the
fork or the south side of the North Fork,
Is the only creek where gold has bean
found on the surface above the forks.
Close to Lansing creek the North Fork
goes through a ive-mile canyon. the walls
rising perpendicular on each side. The
rapids are not bad and can easily be
poied.
Forty miles above the canyon Ladue
creek empties into the river from the
north About eight miles further on
Beaver river puts in and Boswell creek is
still 10 miles further on.
Mud fats for 80 more miles is the main
feature of the river until Mt. Jesus,
very high peak. resembling Mt. Hood in
Oregon. is reached. At the base of the
mountain the river divides into several
small streams which do not extend ex-
ceeding so miles further. This is undouot-
edly tho headwaters of the North Fork.
Above Lansing creek gold has not been
found at all. Beaver river has never
been pcos9ccted or even explored,
although the Ciher streams on the North
Fork were hastily inspected.
1t is not wcIth while TO go up the Stew.
arr river prospecting unless a full years
OUTFIT is taken along. az ii will be neces-
sary to winter there In order to make any
thing like a fair rrospect. The men VINO
have been up the river say that when
it is possible TO get provisions up as far as
MoQuestion river by steamer the country
viii soon be thoroughly prospected, and
they have great faith in its proving rich.
the indications having so far been very
favorable. The way 1t has been in the
past. outfits have been bought at Forty
mile and poled i20 miles UP the Yukon TO
the mouth Of Stewart river and then 100
miles further 10 the mouth Of the Me
Question. This takes the best part OF the
summer and the average miner cannot af-
ford 10 lose SO much time.
Quartz Find on Berner's Bay
Among the passengers on the City Of To-
peka, which arrived in Seattle September
q from Juneau, was T. S NOVEL;. of Bos-
ton, president Of the Berner's Bay Mining
and Milling Company. who confirms the
story brought down by the Al-Ki a few
days ago of the rich quartz strike recently
made at Berners bay. He says It is with
out doubt the biggest find that the world
has known since the time Of the famous
Comstock discovery.
Locations were made on this ledge last
winter" said Mr.. NOVEL; In an interview
''but 1t has only been during the past
three months that any development
work has been done on II. 1t was
called a good find at the time the To-
cation was made, but II has only been dur
ing the past few weeks that the real value
of the location has been realized. The
ledge averages g feet in width and It has
now been traced for a distance of 1000
feet The mill test OF ore taken from the
ledge runs $50 10 the ton on an average.
and there is an eight-foot vein running
through the ledge that viii go as high as
81 800 to the ton. Sulphides are found 10
the value OF 800 70 the ton and coucen-
trates are found in large quantities all
through the lead. II has now been pros
pected sufficiently 10 show that Il Is both
rich and extensive. The lowest assay
that has been returned on It gives So 10
the ton. and 1t runs as high as 1880