The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24

IT is SAID TO CONTAIN RICH GOLD
PLACERS.

Miners Are Reticent About Exact Loca.
ton o. Their Claims-The New Region Is
Admirably Adapted For Agriculture and
stock Raising-"Garden Spot of ALASKA. /"
Recent advices from Sitka, Alaska.
report the discoveries of gold at Cook
inlet. Ninety miners coming from the
newly discovered placer diggings have
brought $780, 900 in gold nuggets and
dust to the capital of the territory. The
largest nugget is worth little less than
500.
The miners are reticent about their
aifalrs, indicating that they desire to
keep secret the exact location of their
claims. The discoveries, however. make
1t certain that that district and Prince
WlIl1am's sound and the Copper river
country will divide attention with the
Alondike next year.
Cook inlet has been designated the
garden spot of Alaska. 1t puts in from
the northern Pacific ocean about 500
miles northwest from Sitl1a and washes
the foothills of the Alaskan range on
the northwest and the lowlands of the
henal mountains on the southeast 1t is
known that all this region is admirably
adapted for agricultural and stock rails
ing lndustries-that is, from an Alas
kan standpoint. The gold discoveries
will greatly add to it's value.
The surrounding country is watered
by great number of rivers, the princi-
pal ones being the Kassilof, the Kahnu,
the Kinik and the Susketro. At the
mouths Of al these are native villages
In addition to these are numberless IN
named streams flowing from the noun
tains into the inlet
1t has been rumored for many Years
that there were valuable placers there
abouts, and coal deposits were known
to exist. The fact, however, that Sitka
was the northern terminal point for
vessels engaged in the Alaska trade and
that to reach Cook inlet required the
chartering of a craft specially for the
trip has hitherto retarded explorations
On the western side of the inlet the
main Alaskan chain of mountains rises
abruptly from the sea in steep ridges
and peaks, the highest of these being
the Redoubte and the Flyamna noun
tains, both. emitting smoke
Only at two points along this coast
within the inlet does lcwland inter
vene between the mountains and the
shore, at Tayonok and at Kustatau, both
Of which localities have been utilized
by the natives for establishing settle
ments.
Two distinct and continuous lines of
'watermark" can be observed along
the whole of this chain, one at an alti-
tude of 1000 feet, the other perhaps
500 or 600 feet above Both of these
lines show the effect of the wash Of the
ocean for ages. together with many
petrifactions of mollusk and other ma
rine life. 1t would afford highly in
teresting field of research for biologists
Now that the presence of gold in pay
ing quantities in this region is an as
sured fact many prospectors who de-
sire to reach an Ell Dorado without en-
during the hardships and delay and the
terrors of the Yukon trip will go up the
inland passage from Puget sound to
Sitka and re-embark there on board YES
sells destined for Cook inlet This jour
ney can be made summer and winter
without suffering more than the ordi-
nary dangers and discomforts of a sea
voyage of IL days duration. New
York Herald