The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-10-16
ALASKA A LAND OF GOLD
MANY DECLARE ITS MINES The
RICHEST EVER KNOWN.

Reports That Recall Fabulous Eldorado- :
Recent Discoveries Seem to Indicate
That in Alaska IL the Mother vein
Of tho Gold of North America.
Those familiar with the history OF I
gold mining declare that the gold fields G
Of Alaska are among the richest both
In quality and In extent that have ever
been known. The stories that the /
Spanish explorers heard about Edo ,
RADIO were no more wonderful than those
which are now coming down from Alaska
with every steamer, except that the
Spaniards heard Of gold already mined
and refined, whereas the Alaska gold
Is not vet dug. The Spaniards never
got their gold; the Alaskans are get
ting it by the ton. Here, for instance,
is q quotation from the issue OF June
30 of the Alaska Mining Record OF
Juneau. 1t relates to the arrival OF
one Jack Hayes, the mail carrier for
the Yukon district. Hayes left Ju-
neau on January IA and completed his
tour of duty on June 26. After an IN
terview with him about his expert
ences, the Record says: -,
| MUCH 6ACltClnCAt PAN'~AA
through the Yukon district over the
Klondike discoveries, and all kinds OF
stories Of the riches there are told,
MANY of which Mr.. Hayes says are
true' It is true that two tenderfeet,
railroad men from Los Angeles, Call
Frank Summers and Charles Clemens
have struck it rich. They went IN
a wear ago and located on the Klondike
last fall. Clemens sold his interestfor
S35, 900 cash, and his partner, Sum
mers, held on two weeks later and got
$50. 600, The money to pay the men
was taken out of the dump which had
been lifted from the shaft on the claim
during the winter. These two men
!. had each PANIED out $4,000 on their
: claim while prospecting it. The man
: that bought Clemens interest bound
y the bargain with 1892 nugget which
had been taken from the klondlke.
: Summers is a single man. Clemens
has wife and two children in Los
:, Angeles. It is said that both will come
y out on the next boat viz st. Michael,
9 bringing with them their little for
9 times. Neither man had ever had any
l
. experience in mining.
: 1sAleo Mcdonald took one pan from
l. his claim which tipped the scales t.
$ the tune of $500, and offered a wage
1e of $1,000 that he could pick his dir
Q. and In twenty minutes get pan tina
would 90 over 100 ounces $4,000. N
one cared to cover the wager.
IA "Dick Lowe is panning for living
"a and is taking out the modest sum {
o. o. 800 day.
=, ssIn a personal letter dated at Circl
It's CITY. March "a, Oscar Ashby says !
=. part:
lie Sour towns very quiet at presen
he every one having gone to the big O.
ng citement at Klondike. Everybody III
'e, cone crazy over it. This country hi
or an unparalleled future. There a
OF thousands of acres that men will no
wn in fact, cannot, look at until provision
wi are cheaper. 1 understand that wag
mt here will be $12 day. There is n
Use enough help to supply the demand
OF the creeks. Dogs are worth all KIN
of money, from SIS to $500 each. :.
'ed There are one or two men In Nc
ow York who know Alaska mining a
led Alaska mines well. A Sun report
OF asked one of them to talk about t
ow gold diggings of Alaska. He did
ack after STIMULATING that his name shot
,al. not be printed. He opened draw
og. of his desk and out OF number
/ to specimens of ore secured chunk
the biq as a mans thumb. 1t was
t is heavy as bullet.
lun- seThis." he said, as he laid it av
feet In the drawer again, "was picked
the on the surface soil six years ago.
had other piece as big as my fist that
avs. picked up at the same place we n
the been offered $3.50 for. Now, wi
got there is gold like that lying alb
with open to the air, there is just one
the ference to be drawn. 1t comes II
city some place. The man who finds
/ the place is rich. The man who tells
it'll world in general what he is looking
d. and why under such circumstances
a fool. By the same token he usu
dies poor and complains OF i
: times. signs for the return OF the e
mails old DAYS of 40 Why, man, '49
or nothing to this! johannesburg
hen such centre of gold fields as is Jun
been "But there is this difference betv
The California in 40 and Alaska In
bya Alaska is oil staked out. The 7
&C. has not gone abroad until the pc
near at hand, the people who
I'D OF spent money, time, and their
just lives in developing the country,
rows people, in short, who deserved tn
spar ward had seized On everything
gorge sight. Down along the coast in
When quartz lodes the stamp mills have
arrow established one by one, twenty sts
ng on here, forty there. They have not
'houl- of them begun to be worked as
ut 0 as the available area OF ore Will
graft. NIT. With mills running altog
about $40 stamps, more than half the st
until working only half year, the pre-
Gorge, of the quartz mines of Alaska IN
} loves Welded 1886, 900. I say to
in earnestly, honestly, that is only
binary scratch. Work in Alaska cam
urnal. said to have begun. There was
anywhere anything like it. TX
u ~x-hola thing m / believe