The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29

stood by a roulette table until the
keeper had $4,000 of the 100000. He left
$4,000 with Jim Kerry for safe keeping,
and, when the following night (Sun-
day. Keery's saloon was robbed, he
lost it. Niger Jim will probably
be working for wages in spring.
Frank Densmore is an old Yukoner,
a miner and a pioneer we'll known
along the length of the river, with
friends wherever known He went out
this summer by the river and st.
Michaels route. His share was 100000.
The other four received their proper
ton of $S5,000 that completed the pur-
chase prices
Still later Healy bought claim No.
20 on Bonanza, paying 70 it $169.000.
The owner was Charles Jenkins, one
of the mounted police, who, when he
secured this claim, was receiving $50
a month and found. He is going out
with a very satisfied carriage. 1t will
be noted that the price paid for claims
rises as they go up the creek.
Excellent reports come from the new
diggings being opened on Bonanza and
Ell Dorado creeks. Upper Bonanza is
developing especially well, although
bedrock has not been reached on any
of the diggings at the upper extremity.
In the eighties on Bonanza a dollar
per pan has been taken out of gravel,
and intense interest is manifested in
the further development. Gold Com
missioner Fawcett and clerks in his
office have located on the creek as far
up as the hundreds.
There is little to be said to change
the general aspect of things with re-
gard to the mines as presented in my
last dispatch. The effort on the part
of mine owners to reduce the rate of
wages to one dollar an hour still con-
tinues as does also the determined OPP
position to it by the miners. Meet
ings have been Held by the miners
which have been largely attended, and
resolutions passed denouncing the eff
fort at reduction and declaring an in
tention not to submit. Committees ap-
pointed for the purpose have patrolled
the creeks, visiting every mine for the
purpose of getting the names of those
who might be working az the reduced
figure, but no man was found who
woald confess. In several instances
however, the committee secured infor-
nation from other sources that it
deemed reliable and twice pulled men
out of different mines with ropes and
warned them not to return to work
until they paid the regulation
wage. This disturbance has prevented
a great many men seeking work at
wages in the mines who would other
wise do so.
The mines are being worked very
generally on the lay system, from
rs to so per cent being allowed. Men
with provisions have no difficulty in
securing lays and even the late corners
thus provided have often secured good
ground. The best ground, not long
ago allotted, is being portioned out in
small pieces and some claims have as
many as seven cabins upon them.
The search for quartz, however, is
the thing of absorbing interest in min
ing circles. Quartz miners and quartz
experts have been engaged in it for
months and with considerable success.
There can be no doubt the hills con-
tain immense deposits OF gold-bearing
quartz, for pieces of rock are picked
up every day and on e-ery creek. The
~. A. T. & T. Co. have run a tunnel
into the hills just opposite Dawson on
the Yukon and have found good rock.
They are not working it, and will not
Captain Healy says, until there is
cheaper labor and better facilities here.
A quartz location was made by Joe
Dillon, mining expert and prospector,
on the 18th of October, and he claims to
have found very rich rock. On the I'd
of October four other locations were
recorded on the same lode and five
others on another location less than
mile away and running exactly parallel.
The first rock crops out on the face of
hills bordering the Klondike River at
the mouth of All Gold Creek, and the
second ledge a mile farther south.
Both are said to extend through to and
make their appearance on Too Much
Gold Creek. Both are taken up by the
same parties.
The veins are 100 feet in width. Con-
siderable prospecting has been done on
them. A charge of dynamite was put
into one ten days ago, and pieces of
rock torn up was assayed, and it is re-
ported to have carried from $50 to $500
per ton. The locators will form a COM
pany at once, with the purpose of de-
velopment. All of them are extremely
enthusiastic and insist that they have
found the mother Iode"-the dream of
every prospector on earth. They are:
E. J. Heacock, formerly United States
Deputy Marshal and son of United
States Commissioner Heacock of San
Francisco; John G. Fritz, member of
the Washington State Senate from
Snohomish County; A. r. Joy, lawyer,
Of Portland, Or, and w. H. Wellburn,
a Puget Sound sawmill man, who has
a sawmill here, which he brought over
the trail. These four have located 5000
feet altogether on the two veins They
expect to begin active development as
early next year as is possible in face of
the conditions.
A great effort is being made to have
the Government at Ottawa reconsider
the recently enacted mining laws,
which reduce the size of placer claims
from 500 to 100 feet, and which impose
such a, heavy tax upon the product of
the mines. These are very vexatious to
the miners, and if enforced will GER