New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-05
THE KLONDIkE'S RIVAL.
co1o ~ ABUNDANCE IN THE NEW
TICHJPICOTEN FIELDS.
A UNITED STATES ARMY OFFICER TELLS OF TIE
WEALTH OF THE DIsTRICT--LARGE DEMAND

UNITED STATES ARMY OFFIO4l' IE41i'0 VS. "
WEALTH or THE DIsTRICT--LAHGE DEMAND
roR PASSAGE OK LAKE STEAMERS
fly rrLEGRAru To THE TEincNE1
ca,,,t Sc. Marie. Mich, Sept 4--Hundreds OF
rooulc here and in the Canadian 800 are Oh
the tiptoe of expectancy pending the "rl4N"i "a
,bo North Shore steame" Telegram winch Is
exroctod here tomorrow afternoon oW'hB 10
tho demand for passage on the BOAT Spec'"'
trim is 20 be made tomorrow night ana every
tor,b has ba.l! taken \ party of twenty from
this CITY and one of equal number from across
,bc river. including six experts from lower can
"a, ,rbo a,~fvcd last night, Will take passage on
this boat
10 tbe reDorts received tomorrow arc as favor
,,a nc those which came on Thursdays
steamer there will be an exodus Of three hun
dred neople from these two towns within week.
o,d The whole region around here is wildly eX-
ci.od The Canadian mining laws are Of such
varIcd character that much misapprehensioh mas
arisen as to how to proceed The ontario MIN
ing law. covering this particular district pro-
vides in brief that when minerals are found
49,. dis.,,.rer can stake out the land not less
than forty acres in extent and file his claim
His stakes must all be marked and numbered
and at each corner must bear the discoVerers
name and date Of finding. He must send TINS
information. attested by two witnesses to To-
ronto and request grant. The crown surveyor
Is then sent TO the claim, and makes survey
for which the applicant pays, and the survey
ors map and field notes go to the Crown Land
Office Claimants are allowed sixty days to file
orplications with survey and aftidavts. and
nav about 81 an acre for the land. This gives
tba,p the timber on the land and whatever min
eral may be found.
Captain Witherell Of Company F. 10Th United
States infantry, is the ovNer Of half claim
on the Garden River, in the new district. He
says that in his claim there are at least a dozen
leads each eight inches wide and fifteen feet
deep. Some of the quartz which Captain With
erell brought from his claim has just been as
sayed and found TO yield about $50 to the ton
This quartz is almost pure white rock. touched
with a dark purple deposit. Another specimen
taken from a deeper point in the mine is darker
in color and the entire surface Is dotted with
chunks of pure gold. a piece of this quartz was
assayed by the Bank OF England for Captain
Wtherell, and report states that 1t bears
seventy-seven ounces and five pennyWeiSh's
sterling. or about $1JO0 to the ton As it pays
TO mine quartz where gold 10 the value of ~ TO
the ton is found, the rlcnheSS oI thIS "lTO''Oi'
CAPTAIN Witherer said to-day THE quartz in
our claim will average $40 ton, taxing IL JUST
satisfied that there is a fabulous amount of gold
In the country up there. The lead when passes
through our claim have traced loo miles one
can find paying quartz almost anywhere ana
YOU can wash gold out from between the ues
along the Canadian Pacific Railroad track sUuth
OF Bruce Mines. There is an lsland OF aoou. my
acres in one of the many lakes up there that ~
full of just such leads. Our claim is about tnlr'y
miles south of the Lake Michlpicoteh dlslr!ct'
but It is practically the same held, ana 'ne SAM
conditions prevail. In all the territory you can can
get supplies at will. and t is the easiest place
TO work in the world. except that the country is
heavily Tim 7bered and has a dense underbrush'
Captain Withereu thinks that there are apuii-
dant chances for a great number OF people 10 TO-
cate paying claims In the dlstrlc' pul ne sa!'
that he does not look for much placer mining.