The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-03
wheeling. Nov. 2.

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wheeling, Nov. 2.
DAWSON Northwest Territory, CAM
Sept 4.-(Letter to the San Francisco
Examiner).-The last letter from Sui
phur creek. the outside, and the last of
the six remote mining creeks, where
two days were spent In looking into
the position of this singular ~place-sln-
GUAR beyond any other OF the many
singular things met with in this new
northwest. To begin with, az a tent
door on Sulphur creek, / saw a tusk
that measured eighteen feet. four
inches; at another place l saw an OK
horn, or rather the pith OF an OK horn,
part OF the she'll ~adhering, that was
easily ten times the size OF the longest
sort Of horn 1 ever saw belonging tn.
that family. The whole place Is a bed
OF bones.
Sulphur creek Is about a half q mile
wide and twenty miles cong. The little
stream Is from thirty to forty feet deep
in O frozen mass OF muck or peet, made
OF grass, moss, bones and fallen trees.
You are in danger OF failing over the
blum or into the many assures formed
by the drifting and breaking away of
the peet into the narrow, winding lit
tie stream. II is SO deep and narrow
that II is dark and cold down there on
the pretty pebble bed OF the little zig
gag creek. The water is of q soft amber
color.
And now note the ~strangest Of all
strange things. The gold, heaps and
heaps OF 1t, lies In and on this pebbly
bed In this zlg-zag little stream; and
Il is coarse. heavy gold-birdshot gold.
The fact OF finding coarse, heavy gold
in and on the gravel OF a creek makes
a Californian stop right there and
scratch his head. Such a thing was
never heard OF in any part Of the world
before. / think this will prove to be the
richest placer mine ever discovered.
/ found that Hunter & Company's
Nos, ~, 10, II and 10 above had set
their boxes down in one of the torrents
in the corkscrew creek and were sim
ply shoveling in the gravel. No bedrock
Is in sight. Their pay Is not so prodl-
eIous in comparison to any rich, open
claim on Bonanza or Eldorado creek
only an average OF three ounces or $50
10 the man. Yet II you should have
opened or conducted a claim In either
creek In that way you would not have
earned your salt. even In those fabu-
louRly rich streams. l repeat, this Sui
phur creek Is n mystery, a miracle.
Mr.. Hunter, the head. or rather the
only man / found at the head of this
al work In Sulphur creek, Is
nm old Montana miner. He Is quite as
mnch puzzled as / am at the hndlng Of
heavy gold in this surface ground.
when Il Is frozen he will open q tunnel
and drive a drift under the peet on
either hand, hunting for the streak
from which this gravel deposit is prob
nbly fed. II is possible that Hunter nnd
hIs three partners have gold enough In
their 1000 feet to pay the national debt.
The only other party / found dolnp
anything at all was that OF two men
rocking by n great IRE In this same
surfacc gravel on the Hugh Beckett
claim No. 5 above, They showed me n
bakIpg powder can half full-thelr
work. OF the day before.
forgot TO mention that Dominion
had been discovered on the 9Th OF juno
10 a French Canadian, known as
Suutchunu' Albeit. Sulphur Hes mid
vav bAween Dominion and Quartz and
was the last TO be discovered. All these
streams now into Indian river exactly
in ,ha other direction from Bonanza
and pldorndo. AZ the mouth OF Quartz
crecIt I found q big ilatboat or scow u
ma come down the Yukon and been
polod up the indian river, 30 you SOC
euppilas will not have to be packed IN
bere At the rate Of 81 and 81 per pound.
They a bs brought either bg boat, or
doT sied up or down tho Yukon md M
10 the mouth NJ Quartz, Sulphur or
Dominion creeks.
AZ some sign Of the estimate In which
sulphur N held she r. staked so the very
head, half n mile above the last winter
Know OF no other creek In these mlnoR
that IN 10 entirely taken up. Every bit
OF little Eulch Of either side Ia taken. H.
II. Grossly. Of Han Francisco, a mining
and mtnc expert. wan the first TO discover
gold In n slide Eulch He and HE part
nsra recorded NOa I, 2 and 7, Meadow
crack, and then Blayln, the Australian
prizo fighter. and n party took NJ the
remainder, az hiFh Nd No. 10.
There 10 nothing in Sulphur, ana little
~ anything IN Dominion, Gold Bottom
or bear crock 10 be Btnked nov There
IN some ground In Quartz. This creek,
Mr.. Hunter tells me, N ep0ttcd and unrc-
iinblp. but I hear not n man dueH,i0n-
inr the riches and reliability ~ any ut
tbe othsr ouialde and remote streams
AZ I came back 10 Dawson from Rul-
phur. ! met one party golng ~ Qnari7