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

Their craft Is twenty-seven feet long.
nine-foot beam, and draws from twelve 10
fourteen inches. IL Is flied with an eight
horsepower engine. The vessel cost $50.
The men carry provisions TO last two
years. and fine mining outfit. They have
a valuable assortment OF drills that will
enable them to drill a two-inch hole
thirty-six feet deep through the hardest
rock or frozen earth. Mr.. Bechtul is the
only member OF the party who has ever
bee n in Alaska. He spent several months
exploring there six years ago.
At Sitka the Copper river people will
be transferred to the steamer Dora. which
makes her last trip for this season. con-
Meeting with this voyage of the Topeka,
and Will take them nearly TO their destina-
ton. They expect 10 arrive there about
October 10.
The Cascade Development Company of
Everett. on September 2S laid the keel
for a small steamer I'm which party VIII
be- sent 70 Alaska next spring. The boat
VIII carry three years supplies. and the
first year will go up Copper river. after
wards probably going TO the Yukon
sulphur Creek Rivals klondike.
Sulphur creek. a branch OF Dominion
creek. which Is a tributary % the Indian
river Il said 10 be the scene OF the latest
great gold excitement in the Klondike.
From accounts OF the new district
brought down on the schooner South Coast
September u Il seems that the new dig
g3ngs will rival even the famed Bonanza
and Eldorsdo.
Gold was found Just below the surface
running S54 10 the pan. Two men took cut
$40 IN a day IN simply prospecting their
claims. A stampede followed the reports
OF the new finds which reached Dawson
city August Is. IN A week SO men had
crossed the mountain between EldoTado
creek and Dominion creek. They Travelled
day and night and In two weeks the whole
stream was staked out
This Information. the first authentic
story OF Sulphur creek. vas given 20 a
Post-Intelligencer representative by John
T.. Light OF Chicago. H. Mr.. Light was a
passenger on the South Coast He left
Dawson City on the steamer Bells August
Is He Owls a claim or Sulphur creek
which ne located himself Light Is a
bright ecnserya tive business man who has
made a barrel o. money IN the Klond!ke.
This Is Lights statement OF the new ind:
sulphur creek will equal Bonanza
There r. no doubt shout e. When / Hrst
heard q the strike there. I went ever the
mountain 20 investigatc Il myself. 7 spent
one day with two brothers the N>Kfnnon
bows % Wellington. p. c. 7 saw them
take out $40 On one day from simply sink
ing two prospect holes The formation -
the same az az Eldors6o creek. and SuI-
phur creek bears the same relation TO Do
rnlni0u as does Eidorado % BONANZA Tbs
streams empty into Indian river. Thev are
tuSt ACROSS che divide from the EIond ks
ard the same process that brcugA millions
IN gold into tne beds % Bausrza ard Edo
RADIO GREEKS deposited as much wealth IL
Sulphur snt Dominion.
Took $50 10 the Pan.
zone c}6 German whose name id not
learn located tte creek. aad from discov-
cry c,alu, ne took SEE 90 the psn
"Ot ceurse. whea tae news q ere new
strike reached Dawson City there was
great stampede ana hundreds iest TIA
klens.k e fer pom,gioa creek. u Is al
stakc5 out now. Marx ny eof8s sou VII
hear tae same marvellous stories from Su.-
pAur creek srt p1minion tAat carae from
Elseraa7 Isst winter. Even proS1ectorx
souod q - cents per par an ths surface 90
Nr. ILrrt passed by SktG 8fitsaelrs
cla5-- ~ tas mouth % E3dorstc creek sew
e-al tunes before Pc lert He SAYS that
ee,h Mitchell who 0wrs No l. ard Alex
Mcdonald orc % tre F1ieraa, II lI5arzs~es
o. tHe Aloni.ke. oNcer - Ne. : are en-
n3evlee FROM q - q weo. working cav
&~8 nIxat They had turned tha se~esrr
aside srt were working On the SD ws~u
Ne Iss, A4Eust Il IL was 40 uncommon
tH1T f9r two wen - take clg az uGca as
s. sa i- aE3e CAV
rr Ntene.is clam q cleanup vas made
aesat AsEUs' 3 from "a PIE o. d4rt whtea
hae heer taken ouc X 'h-Hs DAYS. Il ns;s%d
3-,te In aust ard nuggets
Nr fsS1- weat % Alksza last Nab
lie EEaee vat Vrcl3d - cous5 tersS a f7r-
t-~e .- t-a1-V Ter cams as1 uae~-ha--
Sc lie evalotes re t>e5ry tAst most o
ere -tres ea Bena-aA and E.cora8s eaa
- E--ka1 or,y in TIE winter. saving hat
i-ttis wo~s tse W&ssr ear he : re--as3
fToez tas S-ssz oea ard -Ialzx sacS@zs-
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