The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-05

The steamer queen arrived down from
Aaask2 yesterday morning. bringing The
newspapers ard mails sr0ra the north-
V@st territory. According % d lstter -
TIE Alaska Mining Record from a CORES
prA1eat Il Circle ClSy. the sn<Lre district
EAs gone cray over the recent 1tsccvSr-
ie2 10 The kIondys Tire letter says Lrzt
" zes IL Circle Cisy are 81 per day. ow-
ina 70 tE2 scarcity O. n.ea. the rac1 On IS
having almost 1epopGlated the town
II - ars Q1ored a. being worth from So
70 81. each aid hard 20 geL MICH ex-
element. says the Record prevails al.
through the YUKON district 0ve- me kloa-
dyke discoveries ard al kinds Of stories
% the riches there are told, many Il
which Ar- Hayes gays are tE-s. Il Is rr-+e
tg4- TAO tender fees railroad l.eu from
Los Angeles c3ltoru3a-Erauk SUmm1~s
and Charles cIeuen=-haye struck * rich
They weat - year ago ard located On
the kloadyke Last fail Clemens sold
his interest for - - cash. ard A.s par
ne-. Summers. held OF tao weeks LATER
and got So $50 The money % pay tEe
men waz taken oG- @ the d41D VII 4
rad beeu lifted fran the shaft on the
claim during The winter These tEo
men lad each PANIED out E 30 CT their
claim while prospecting i. TIE mG1
that boaght Clemens interest bound The
bargain with a f232 nugget which had been
taken from the claln-lhe largest nugget
yet found o. The Klou1yks summers
Is a single man. Clemens nas = wife ard
two children n Los Angeles. Ca. = =
said jaat eotn .ner will core oslt % the
next boat va ST Michael, bringing vita
them thslr little fortunes. Neither MAI
had ever aae any experience II mining.
Johnnie Marks got SO, $50 FOR quarter
Interest n hts claim. Murpn" TEor2
has claim OFT of which several pans
have been taken which went 80 and so
from Tim ReU for S3iQe9 cash; Bell PAD
originally 81 for the claim. TIE owner
OF ire adjoining claim says that Re i
positive that LSAAe W.ll take our q half
million from cEe claim Alex. Mcdonald
took one pan from his claim which zip
ped ths scales To the tune % $50. I'D
offered a wager Of 81 coo that he could
pick his dirt ard III twenty minutes -sI
pan that would 20 100 ouaces-sl.sa 10
one cared 70 cover the WAGER
Lucky Pete WioorE. who has taken ont
more than So o. FROM Birch creek Is IN
The SWIM Al kioadyae. A Nr Clemens.
cousin u Samuel L Clemens. better
known a. Mark Twain. refused sl5.eoo for
his CHARGES On ElGorado- Other lucky
ores are James Monroe. Doc Owens
ard Clarence Berry. Those who knpw
say Berry VIII take out $3.50 20 $4,000
this season. Dick Lowe * banning fcc
living 4a3 Is taking oUt the modest sum
Ot siDj per day Joe Ladue IS interested
IN doze1 or more claims q good value.
- new discovery has teen made on
creek entering The Yukon below Birch
river II has been Christe1ed Minute
creek ard II said 20 be paying SO a
day "a the man. The excitement on the
Ki9ndyke hGs Kept the rush from this
place b2s twenty men are at work there
doing wall
American creek entering the Yukon
fly miles below Forty-Mle and which
was nearly Abandoned during the Birch
creek excitement. has started anew ~
turning cut 6 number o. pans whlch run
from 80 n 50: II Is thought rhst his
Will prove 20 % one Of the aes:-gay *
creeks - the interior.
The rev discovery as reported ~ the
N.ri0E Record lss' week, i On Too Much
Cold rreek. tributary OF klou6yke. Ire
In35aGs say th2G Ihere e. more gold rhe-s
tran on the Et6o-ado bat Up 20 last r.
ports no enc has located The stream.
one San svt hfs cwn price a. NIortyks
tor good Yukon dos Jack Hayes
brought oUt three Eoost-Iookiag NgI-as
wi-h rlm wai>h he SAYS stand him $50
i~ sold. Ore mar a. Circle CITY refused
So cor an extraordinarily good Gre.
Tae SaarchI5ght A&ils wIfh delight the
statement thar a ~Teage- = IN be arecred
tn Sss1tle. ard says that K Is welcome
news 70 thS ulre owners % Alaska. as al
points II ira southeastern part - the ,@r-
Tt;1Ty are SO directly il t5Gc1 Wi-E s.
att.e TIE rev plant" it sfstcs wi
ce -o-elte-@ cty ,arxer than Ehe ores g..
Tacoma an6 Everett and in the refining
IL Eo.a ar1 s.tver v-t}{ do WarS wHlca
,Hrrc- sex ce 1cre -tis SIZE 81 san Fran
..s-o Te1@ rev plant @tl a4so "a aba
- Aaa3'e ~oPaer wHt-s ret.he~ - era
S l1+ suss.sers ran uow @ arr e Vii
~c- ~ 15a< before Southeastern Alaska
rr11--s nsta~s~ts copper. The are--
.~ u ISIS 0ls-- VIII Hr another rle ID
etGl -ae growing Interests q Alaska 80
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