The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-21

them $50, 900 a month. The great Tread
well mine keeps pegging along turning
| out more than half a million dollars
worth of gold every year, and there are
undoubtedly great quantities of gold
| about Juneau. There is gold at Cook S
Inlet and on the Copper river, and you
| have heard of the recent new discover
les in the Munook region below Fort
| Yukon.
| SPOKANE MANS RICH FIND.
'Tt is a question whether Southeast
! ern Alaska will not prove to be big
ger gold field than the Klondike. There
| is man named Smith from my town
| of Spokane who has just come back,
bringing big lot of free gold with
him. He has been prospecting along
| the Stickeen river, near Fort Wrangel,
and he saws he has discovered gold
which will assay 100000 to the ton. The
gold is free gold. You can see it in
his samples. The yellow specks stick
out all over the chunks of ore. He
says it lies in a fve-foot ledge between
walls of porphyry and slate, and that
the outcroppings can be-traced a dis
lance Of 300 feet The ledge crops out
on the side of a mountain half mile
above the sea. 1t is on Salmon creek,
about thirty miles northeast of Fort
Wrangel.'
as that hard place to reach, SEN
ator?"
mo, I think not" replied Senator
Wilson. Fort Wrangel is on the main
Alaskan route of the steamers plying
between Seattle and Juneau. 1t could
be easily reached by those vessels or
by small schooners. According to Mr..
Smith you could almost drive to the
gold region in a wagon, or, at least,
a wagon road could be made to it. lie
says that Salmon river has good pla-
Ger ground all the way up to the gold
ledge he has discovered, but that he
could find no gold above this point. He
made the discovery about the LIST of
September 1t had already begun to
snow there. so he staked his claims
and came back to wait until spring to
work them"
you were speaking of the Munook
country senator. Where is this?
All that l know about it is from
letters which 1 have read. There are
a number of Washington people min
ing there, and among others Gov. Nc
Graw. 1t is some distance down the
Yukon river, below Fort Yukon. The
steamer Bertha, which arrived at Sc
attic the last of October, brought some
gold from Munook All sorts of claims
are made about the region, one miner
saying that it will be second to Daw-
son in richness. There are now. I be-
lieve, 1900 people at Rampant City, in
that region, and this city promises to
be the largest winter camp outside
of Dawson City"
RECENT REPORTS FROM DAWSON
Have you heard anything new as
to gold discoveries in the KIondi1e?"
II understand that a number of big
finds have been recently made. There
he nf
Der on a side hill in what is known
as Skookum gulch. This gold was dis
covered in d district that had been
prospected again and again. Hundreds
Of miners have walked over it and
passed it by Now the whole country
about has been staked off, and men are
picking up Jumps of gold worth from
So to $50. A single nugget worth SAT
was found, and two men picked up
$500 worth Of coarse gold in a day.
The gold was almost on the surface of
the ground, but there was something
like foot of moss over it, and former
prOSpectorS had failed to discover it.
This is a sample of what may hap
pen in any gold region at any time.
Some of the best mines Of the world
have lain for years right under the
eyes Of the prospectors and escaped
notice. This was the case with the
are, you know, under the shadow of
Pixies peak. Thousands of miners
walked over them looking for gold.
Then Stratton discovered the indie
pendence and the whole country was
found to be honey-combed with the
precious metal. 1t now turns out mil
lions a year. The Mercur gold mines,
near Salt Lake City, were examined
by the late Senator Hearst Marcus
DAILY and the best miners of the coun-
try and thought to be worth nothing.
They are now turning out millions.
You can't tell anything about gold, and
in many cases the tenderfoot is quite
as successful as the old prospector."
But, senator there must be an enor-
nous lot of failures among the men
who go to Alaska %"
Yes there are said Senator Will
son. II have been told that only about
one claim out of sixteen has so far